This blog offers detailed technical articles and opinions on engineering leadership, AWS cloud architecture, and database scaling, specifically within the context of banking and financial technology. It is written for technology leaders, architects, and engineers who need practical, battle-tested insights from someone who has managed these systems at a major financial institution.

• First-hand experience: All content is authored by Andrew Baker, the Group CIO of a major retail bank, drawing directly from his work at Capitec, ABSA, Barclays, and AWS.
• Depth over trends: Posts avoid recycled opinions, focusing instead on deep technical analysis and lessons learned from implementing and scaling real systems.
• Banking technology focus: The material specifically addresses the unique challenges of building secure, scalable, and compliant technology within the financial services sector.
• Practical engineering leadership: Shares actionable advice on leading engineering teams and making architectural decisions that have been proven at scale.