Jordan Reeves
Staff data engineer
Engineering team profile. Architecture posts on AI-DE Insights cover control-plane / data-plane / decision-plane modeling, Kubernetes-native orchestration, and platform migrations. Replace with real bio when authoring identity ships.
2 posts by this author
- ArchitectureApr 15, 202612 min readHow to Design a Modern Data + AI System: Control, Data, and Decision Planes
Most data teams build AI features by bolting an LLM onto their existing pipeline and calling it done. The systems that actually work in production separate three planes. Here's why, with a reference architecture.
- ArchitectureMar 18, 20268 min readWhy We Migrated from Airflow to Kubernetes-Native Orchestration
After three years running Airflow at scale, we hit the ceiling: resource contention, slow DAG parsing, and a scheduler that became a single point of failure. Here's the full story of how we rebuilt orchestration on Argo Workflows — what we gained, what we lost, and the lessons you can steal.