avi de silva_

AI advisory & applied AI — Auckland, NZ

Technology leader.
Weekend builder.

I advise executives on AI strategy and build agentic systems on weekends to stay honest about what actually works.

10Years in enterprise systems
CIO50Recognised technology leader
Oxford SaïdExecutive AI Diploma
Hands-onAgentic systems and RAG in production

01 — Writing

Latest from Pit Lane to Production

Notes on taking AI from prototype to production, written while doing exactly that.

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02 — Build

What I'm building

ACTIVE

Apex Predictor

An autonomous agent that manages a Fantasy F1 team. Under the hood: an integer linear programming solver that searches 1.4 million possible teams in under two seconds, a price simulator that prevents short-term thinking, and an AI reasoning layer that reviews every recommendation before execution. Built with Claude Code from a single prompt, then refined the hard way.

1,400,000 teams searched → 1 selected · <2s

If your AI initiative is stuck between the pilot and the P&L, let's talk.

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