# Architecture-as-Code Control Plane

Wells Fargo · 2025 – present · Role: Architect

> An executable, policy-aware governance engine that checks designs automatically before they reach production, so architecture keeps pace with AI-speed delivery.

## Problem

Architecture governance ran on documents and review meetings. As AI accelerated delivery, reviews became a bottleneck and approved designs drifted from what was actually running.

## Approach

- Made architecture machine-readable and version-controlled, with reusable patterns and compliant-by-design code generation.
- Expressed standards as policy-as-code and evaluated them automatically in the delivery pipeline.
- Compared observed, current-state architecture with declared intent through automated checks before build and before go-live, moving toward model-to-runtime parity.

## Governance

- Launched with a core set of automated guardrails and standards, expanded as teams adopted them.
- Automated design-time and deploy-time checks wired into the delivery pipeline.
- People keep the decisions that need judgment; machines run the checks that don't.

## Outcome

- Adopted by architects and application teams across multiple lines of business.
- Shorter architecture reviews and far fewer manual reviews, with architects focused on the decisions that need them.

## Lesson

Architecture is not what you say you'll build; it's what you actually allow into production.

Technologies: Architecture-as-Code, Policy-as-code (OPA/Rego), CI/CD, Model Context Protocol

Links: [See a working example: aac.muthub.org](https://aac.muthub.org)

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Muthukrishnan (Muthu) Bommiah · https://muthub.org · Views are my own and do not represent my employer.