Anatoly Volkhover is a software architect, developer, and entrepreneur with 35 years in Silicon Valley. He has designed and built frameworks, programming languages, DSLs, databases, virtual machines, and business solutions for clients including Hitachi, Expedia, Nestlé, Pepsi, Fox, and L’Oréal, among others.

His work spans three interconnected concerns: engineering productivity across teams of any size, software architectures that withstand market shifts and human error, and the practical adoption of AI across business and engineering. His current focus is helping companies leverage agentic AI for tangible business outcomes — cost reduction, faster time-to-market, lower risk — through Rishon, the AI-first business automation platform he founded, and AI++, his platform for AI Fluency screening and education.

He is also the author of Become an Awesome Software Architect, an earlier book on enterprise software architecture.

Readers who want to keep talking can do so through Anatoly’s AI Twin — a conversational digital twin that answers questions about software architecture, agentic AI, the Rishon platform, and production AI systems, in any language. The AI Twin, his other projects and writing, and a contact channel all live at anatoly.com.