Arsalan Ellahi

Principal Architect, Kiwibank

Arsalan is an emerging thought leader from New Zealand. He has one and half decades of experience including over a decade of experience with DDD and event-driven architectures diversified across various industries like FinTech, FitTech, AgriTech, and Banking. He has full spectrum exposure, from startups and scaleups to enterprise digital transformation and modernization. He is publishing 11 Architectural IMPAIRMENTS (a.k.a. Coupling Patterns) in Sociotechnical Systems and as a Principal Architect, he is currently leading the integration practice in Kiwibank's digital transformation journey.

Arsalan

at PlatformCon

Blueprints

June 13

Runtime vs infrastructure coupling, pick your poison

Runtime coupling and infrastructure coupling are two of eleven enterprise sociotechnical coupling patterns (IMPAIRMENTS) from Arsalan. In this talk he will unveil how you can escape one, but not both.

Arsalan Ellahi

Principal Architect, Kiwibank

Register for PlatformCon 2025

Connect with fellow platform practitioners, learn from the best in the industry and engage directly with speakers on Slack.

Community

Join over 20k platform engineers from all over the world

Slack

Share best practices, discuss new trends and tooling with 20k+ platform practitioners

Speakers

Engage with 200+ speakers in dedicated channels or directly in DMs