Architecture Library

Reference architectures for AI and data systems — patterns I design and implement for enterprise clients.

Enterprise RAG Architecture

GenAI

Production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation system with ingestion pipeline, vector store, retrieval layer, and LLM response generation with citation tracking.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │             ENTERPRISE RAG SYSTEM               │
  ├──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┤
  │  Ingestion       │   Query Processing           │
  │  Pipeline        │                              │
  │                  │   User Query                 │
  │  ┌───────────┐   │        │                     │
  │  │ Document  │   │        ▼                     │
  │  │   Store   │   │   Embedding Model            │
  │  └─────┬─────┘   │        │                     │
  │        │         │        ▼                     │
  │   Chunking        │   Vector Search ──────────► │
  │        │         │        │          Vector DB  │
  │   Embedding       │        ▼                     │
  │        │         │   LLM + Context              │
  │        ▼         │        │                     │
  │   Vector DB      │        ▼                     │
  └──────────────────┴── Response + Citations ──────┘

Key Components

Document Ingestion

Chunking & Embedding

Vector Store

Retrieval Engine

LLM Generation

Response API

Data Mesh Architecture

Data Platform

Federated data ownership model with domain-oriented data products, self-serve data infrastructure, and federated computational governance on Snowflake.

┌──────────┐   ┌──────────┐   ┌──────────┐
  │ Finance  │   │ Customer │   │ Product  │
  │  Domain  │   │  Domain  │   │  Domain  │
  │          │   │          │   │          │
  │Data Owner│   │Data Owner│   │Data Owner│
  └────┬─────┘   └────┬─────┘   └────┬─────┘
       │              │              │
       └──────────────┼──────────────┘
                      │
               ┌──────▼───────┐
               │  Snowflake   │
               │ Data Platform│
               │              │
               │ ┌──────────┐ │
               │ │ Catalog  │ │
               │ │ Policies │ │
               └─┴────┬─────┴─┘
                      │
               ┌──────▼───────┐
               │  Consumers   │
               │ (BI/AI/ML)   │
               └──────────────┘

Key Components

Domain Teams

Data Products

Snowflake Platform

Data Catalog

Policy Engine

Consumers

Event-Driven AI Pipeline

Architecture

Real-time AI processing pipeline with event streaming, model inference, and downstream system updates for near real-time business intelligence.

Source Events         Processing            Output
       │                    │                   │
  ┌────▼────┐          ┌────▼────┐         ┌────▼────┐
  │  Kafka  │─────────►│ Stream  │────────►│Dashboard│
  │ Pub-Sub │          │Processor│         └─────────┘
  └─────────┘          └────┬────┘         ┌─────────┐
                            │  ────────────►│ Alerts  │
                     ┌──────▼──────┐        └─────────┘
                     │  AI Model   │        ┌─────────┐
                     │  Inference  │───────►│Data Lake│
                     └──────┬──────┘        └─────────┘
                            │
                     ┌──────▼──────┐
                     │Feature Store│
                     └─────────────┘

Key Components

Event Source

Kafka / Pub-Sub

Stream Processor

AI Model

Feature Store

Output Systems

Multi-Agent AI System

GenAI

Supervisor-agent pattern for complex task decomposition — a supervisor LLM routes tasks to specialized sub-agents with shared memory and tool access.

User Task
                  │
       ┌──────────▼──────────┐
       │   Supervisor Agent  │
       │  (LLM Orchestrator) │
       └──┬───────┬───────┬──┘
          │       │       │
     ┌────▼──┐ ┌──▼───┐ ┌─▼──────┐
     │Research│ │Write │ │Validate│
     │ Agent  │ │Agent │ │ Agent  │
     └────┬──┘ └──┬───┘ └─┬──────┘
          │       │        │
          └───────┼────────┘
                  │
            ┌─────▼─────┐
            │   Tools   │
            │ Web/DB/API│
            └─────┬─────┘
                  │
           Human-in-Loop?
                  │
               Output

Key Components

Orchestrator

Specialist Agents

Tool Layer

Memory Store

Human Checkpoint

Output