Who is Ravi Shah?
Ravi Shah is an Executive Architect at IBM Consulting UK&I, based in London. Ravi has spent more than two decades helping enterprises deliver digital services, and now focuses on agentic engineering: building software with AI agents and shipping agentic capability into production systems for Financial Services.
Ravi's writing covers agentic design patterns, context engineering, deep agents, token budget discipline, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in banking, and shift-left security in the pull-request loop. Each practical article is paired with open-source code on GitHub, including gitleaks-repo-scan-agent, deep-agent-anatomy and llm-token-budget.
Full bio, talks and press kit →What I work on
- Agentic engineering
- Context engineering
- Deep agents
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- AI FinOps and token budgets
- Shift-left security
- Financial services digital transformation
- Hybrid cloud and APIs
- Resilience engineering
Latest articles
A deep agent anatomy
The four components behind deep agents — a detailed system prompt, a planning tool, sub-agents and a file system — and how they differ from shallow ReAct agents.
Token Budget Discipline: A Developer’s Playbook
A practical playbook for treating model quotas like engineering budgets: route requests, reserve premium capacity, and avoid cooldown stalls.
IBM Project Bob Shifts Security Left with AI-Powered Code Scans
How AI-powered Gitleaks scanning moves security from a pipeline gate into the developer's PR loop — shift-left security for the agentic era.
Featured projects
deep-agent-anatomy
Runnable companion to “A deep agent anatomy”: shallow vs. deep agents, the four components, and a from-scratch deep agent you can run with no API key.
Read the article →gitleaks-repo-scan-agent
Shift-left security for the agentic era — an AI agent skill that runs Gitleaks in Cursor, Copilot CLI and CI, interprets findings and guides remediation before secrets reach production.
Read the article →Talks & panels
IBM UK&I Chief Architects
Engineering culture
AWS European FSI Industry Analyst Summit
Financial Services
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