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Kiragu Maina
Dispatches from a systems architect

A working
architect,
on file.

AI-native systems, written down.

The council activity panel from a2ui-free, captured live

I design and ship AI-native enterprise systems for teams that need the hidden 90 percent to work in production. Multi-agent orchestration, async queues, cost-aware deployments, the full plumbing.

What follows is a working file: case studies of systems I have shipped, with the constraints, decisions, and code where the claim lives.

Open to USD contract work, Q3 2026 onward.
Open dispatch no. 004 - A2UI free
Selected dispatches
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Working principles
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01

Optimise for the hidden 90.

API wrappers are not architecture. The interesting work lives in queues, fallbacks, rate limiters, idempotency, observability. I build for that layer first.

02

Cost belongs in the design, not the bill.

Free-tier matrices, Redis-backed quotas, fallback chains, request coalescing. A system that ignores inference cost gets shut down.

03

Every decision should be replayable.

Council votes logged with latency and tokens. Pipeline runs persisted to Redis. Outreach traced end to end. If you cannot replay it, you cannot improve it.

04

Distribution is part of the product.

Programmatic SEO, sitemap integrity, IndexNow, structured data. Not afterthoughts. The system that ships content also ships proof of the system.

Engagement

If a system needs
an architect, write.