Che ShivaFounder & CTO,
ÍL·LUKI.

I’m Che Shiva. I build ÍL·LUKI — a membership platform where humans and AI agents work together. Before this I spent 14 years directing enterprise technology, teams, vendors, and budgets at AXS / AEG, on top of 30+ years hands-on across infrastructure, cloud, AI, and on-chain systems. Enterprise discipline, founder speed.

Full-Stack DevelopmentAI Agents & LLM SystemsDevOps & CloudSmart Contracts / EVMPayments & Treasury SystemsSecurity & ComplianceIT Operations Leadership
Plano, TexasEnterprise + emerging technology
Portrait of Che Shiva
Building now
Operator instincts. Engineer fluency.IT · Cloud · AI · Blockchain
30+Years in production technology
14+Years of continuous leadership at AXS / AEG
2,800+Users served by production on-chain systems

The platform I am building now.

A membership platform for humans and AI agents, live in production — built, deployed and operated end to end, from identity and billing to the agents themselves.

01

Member Platform

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLSingle sign-onStripe billingFree & premium tiers
02

Human-Designed Agents

Per-member agentsLLM orchestrationRAGVoiceModel routingGuardrails
03

Production Operations

Linux VPSnginxCloudflareAutomated deploysBackups & restore drillsWorkflow automation

Reliability shaped the operator. Curiosity kept the builder alive.

For three decades, I’ve worked where technology has to perform in the real world. My path began in hardware engineering at Compaq, matured inside regulated enterprise operations at Takeda, and continued in technology leadership at AXS / AEG.

Along the way, I never stopped building: cloud-native architectures, multi-agent AI platforms, and production smart contracts. The thread through all of it is simple — understand the system, stay calm under pressure, translate complexity, and make the next version better.

FoundationCompaq / The Answer Group

Hardware engineering, diagnostics, and systems thinking

DisciplineTakeda Pharmaceuticals

Regulated operations, ITIL practice, and executive support

LeadershipAXS / AEG

Enterprise IT operations, infrastructure, and modernization

FrontierAI + On-chain Systems

Hands-on platforms, agents, and production smart contracts

The full stack — enterprise IT to emerging tech.

Hands-on engineering across product, AI agents, infrastructure, on-chain and financial systems — grounded in fourteen years of enterprise operating experience.

01

Product & Web

TypeScriptReactNext.jsServer ComponentsTailwind CSSResponsive UIViteAccessibility
02

AI Agents & LLM Systems

Claude APILiteLLMLLM OrchestrationRAGVoice AIAI AgentsMCP ServersModel RoutingVector SearchSpeech to TextText to SpeechLocal InferenceCUDA / GPUAnthropicOpenAIGemini
03

Backend, Data & Identity

PythonPostgreSQLMariaDBRedisREST APIsSingle Sign-OnOIDCFrappe / ERPNext
04

DevOps & Platform

Dockernginxsystemdpm2CloudflareTailscaleAutomated DeploysBackups & DRWorkflow Automation
05

Blockchain & Smart Contracts

PythonRustNext.jsSoliditySmart ContractsEVMSonic L1Web3Computer Engineering
06

Payments, Treasury & Trading

Stripe BillingSubscription PaymentsMulti-Level Payout LedgersTreasury OperationsMultisig WalletsAlgorithmic TradingPerps & Spot ExecutionRisk ControlsMarket Data PipelinesDeFi IntegrationOn-Chain Settlement
07

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSAmazon ConnectAmazon WorkspacesVMwareLinuxNetworkingCisco MerakiSystem Builds & Diagnostics
08

Enterprise IT & Operations

IT Operations LeadershipITIL Service ManagementIncident ResponseVendor & Budget ManagementEndpoint & Asset ManagementRemote SupportScreenConnectWindows ServerWindows 10 / 11Microsoft 365Active DirectoryHyper-VDesktop VirtualizationmacOSiOSMobile Device Management
09

Security & Compliance

CybersecurityPCI ComplianceIdentity & AccessEndpoint SecurityTanium

Three arenas. One operating mindset.

01
Cloud architecture

Modernizing enterprise support

Designed a cloud-native contact-center direction using Amazon Connect and Zendesk AI, with resilience, automation, and measurable operating efficiency at the center.

Reliability at scale
02
AI systems

Building a platform where humans and agents work together

Co-founded and operate ÍL·LUKI: a membership platform where each member gets one identity, one login, and AI agents designed around them — live, with paying members.

Agents that do work
03
On-chain engineering

Shipping production smart contracts

Designed and shipped production Solidity systems on Sonic L1 across token, NFT, and matrix logic — with a focus on parity, upgrade discipline, and real users.

Built for production

How I think when the stakes are real.

01

Reliability is a feature.

Novelty means little if the system fails when people depend on it.

02

Complexity should become clarity.

The job is not to display technical depth. It is to turn that depth into sound decisions.

03

New technology must earn its place.

Cloud, AI, and blockchain matter when they improve the outcome — not because they are fashionable.

04

Builders stay close to the work.

Leadership is stronger when it remains grounded in systems, users, constraints, and execution.

Building at the edge of operations and emerging tech.

My current focus is on AI-native IT operations, resilient cloud contact centers, voice systems, agent orchestration, and secure on-chain product infrastructure.

AI agentsLLM orchestrationRAGVoice AIFull-stack productSmart contractsPayments & treasuryInfrastructure reliability

Good conversations usually begin with a hard problem.