Humans own the outcome.
Agents assist. A person owns the relationship, the decision and the close.
CHE SHIVA
Chief Technology Officer · ÍL·LUKI
Chief Technology Officer
I’m theCTOOfÍLLUKI
Architect. Build. Operate. Protect.
I lead technology at ÍL·LUKI, where humans and AI agents work together to build a better future. My job is to make that real: the platform, the agents, and the operations behind them.
Chief Technology Officer
“Humans and agents working together in harmony, building good things for humanity, people and planet.”
- People
- Purpose
- Technology
- A brighter
- Tomorrow
- ArchitectOne platform for members, agents and operations.
- BuildProduction software, from sign-in to payouts.
- OperateServers, deploys and backups that run every day.
- ProtectIdentity, access and member data handled with care.
- Cleaner planet
- Thriving communities
- More opportunity
- A brighter tomorrow
ÍLLUKIilluki.com
ROLE
IleadtechnologyatÍL·LUKI,wherehumansandAIagentsbuildtogether. Beforethat,Ispent
threedecadesinproductionIT: hardwareatCompaq,regulatedoperationsatTakeda,andenterpriseITleadershipatAXS/AEG.
ROLE
IleadtechnologyatÍL·LUKI,wherehumansandAIagentsbuildtogether. Beforethat,Ispent
threedecadesinproductionIT: hardwareatCompaq,regulatedoperationsatTakeda,andenterpriseITleadershipatAXS/AEG.
OwnershipWhat
What
I own
- 01
Platform Architecture
One product platform for ÍL·LUKI: the public site, member dashboards for free, premium and founder tiers, and the services behind them.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Member dashboards
- Free · Premium · Founder tiers
- Automated deploys with rollback
- 02
Human-Designed AI Agents
- 03
Identity & Access
- 04
Learning & Community
- 05
Operations & Security
Principles
How I lead
Every agent has a refusal list.
What an agent will not do is written down, and tested before anyone relies on it.
Disclose what is synthetic.
AI is labelled as AI. No borrowed likenesses and no manufactured proof.
Prove it on the live system.
An exit code is not a deploy. It is done when it works where people use it.
Writing
Notes from
inside the systems.
One piece at a time, on each part of the stack I actually work in — written from things that broke, not things I read about.
At a glance
By the numbers
- 30+
- Years in production technology
- 14
- Years leading IT operations at AXS / AEG
- 3
- Member tiers on one platform: free, premium, founder
- 2
- Meanings of “human designed”: by people, and on each member’s own chart
- Sep 2026 —Now
Chief Technology Officer, ÍL·LUKI
Humans and AI agents, working together. I own the platform, the agents and the operations behind them.
- 2012 — 2026Tier 3 · Leadership
AXS / AEG
Enterprise IT operations, infrastructure, and modernization
- c. 2007 — 2012Tier 2 · Discipline
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Regulated operations, ITIL practice, and executive support
- c. 2002 — 2007Tier 1 · Foundation
Compaq / The Answer Group
Hardware engineering, diagnostics, and systems thinking
Architecture
Under the hood
“Next.js and TypeScript, built on one design system with enforced colour, spacing and type rules, so every page looks like the same company.”
Front end“One sign-on for every member app. Sign-up is confirmed by email, sessions are server-issued, and access follows the member’s tier.”
Identity“PostgreSQL behind clean APIs, with Frappe running membership records. Every sign-up and referral is attributed and auditable.”
Data“Claude routed through a LiteLLM proxy, MCP servers for actions, and agents that have their own design and their own refusal list.”
AI layer“Events flow through n8n workflows, so follow-ups, notifications and hand-offs happen without someone remembering to do them.”
Automation“Hardened Linux servers behind Cloudflare, with Docker, nginx, TLS, private networking, automated deploys with rollback, and backups.”
Infrastructure
Building with humans and agents?
I’m glad to talk about platform architecture, human-designed AI agents, and running technology that people depend on.
Plano, TX