Real-time payment infrastructure
Work spanning systems supporting Thailand’s PromptPay and Vocalink / Mastercard payment rails.
Thomas Bhatia
Payments · Messaging · AI
Distributed systems architect · Co-founder, Aegis Works
I design reliable systems for payments, messaging and AI.
More than 20 years designing scalable systems across payments, banking, telecoms and messaging. I’m applying that experience to governed AI at Aegis Works.
Available for contract and project-based architecture and engineering work.
20+years in critical systems
Paymentsreal-time payment infrastructure
Messagingbanking & telecoms
Aegis Worksbuilding governed AI
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Experience
Payments · Messaging · Distributed systems
The experience behind the work.
View my background on LinkedInRabbitMQ at operational scale
Architecture and high-performance messaging systems across banking and telecommunications.
My instructor profile at Seventh StateBuilding Aegis Works
Applying explicit authority, fault tolerance, observability and recovery to AI workers, beginning with Hana.
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Current work
Contract work.
Building Aegis.
I’m available for defined architecture and engineering engagements. Alongside that work, I’m building Aegis Works and looking for funding partners and a co-founder.
Contract work.
Payments, messaging and distributed systems: architecture, implementation, performance and recovery. We can agree a defined scope, delivery priorities and time commitment.
- Real-time payments and integration architecture
- Message brokers and event-driven systems
- Performance, fault tolerance and recovery
- AI action boundaries, permissions and observability
Governed AI operations
Aegis Works
At Aegis Works, we’re building AI workers that communicate, coordinate and act inside the boundaries a business sets. Hana is our starting point: customer conversations and booking, with explicit checks before an action is allowed.
I’m looking for funding partners and a co-founder to help take Aegis forward. Let’s discuss the product, current progress and what we would need to build together.
Visit Aegis Works Funding & co-founder conversations
Action-control design
Illustration
- 01Request interpretedmodel
- 02Facts groundedstate
- 04Action executedeffect
- 05Outcome recordedevidence
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The operating principle
Authority before autonomy
An AI suggestion isn’t permission to act.
When software can change a booking, move a payment or alter a record, a persuasive answer is not enough. Permissions, business state and confirmation must be checked before the action; its outcome must be recorded afterwards.
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Field notes
Notes from the action boundary.
Payments, distributed systems and the practical work of making AI controllable, observable and recoverable.
AI is not a teenager.
Models do not grow up. They scale. Build the controls before you scale, not after.
Authority before autonomy.
What building Hana has taught me about the difference between conversation and permission.
What fails first.
Future notes on failure, recovery and the engineering decisions behind reliable systems.
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About Thomas
An architect and a builder.
I’m a distributed systems architect and co-founder of Aegis Works. My background spans more than 20 years across banking, telecoms, payments and RabbitMQ systems.
I’m available for contract and project-based engineering work alongside building Aegis. At Aegis, my focus is on the controls that let AI take useful action: permissions, confirmation, recovery and a record people can inspect.
“The person accountable when an AI action goes wrong should understand exactly why it was allowed.”
Contract work · Aegis funding · Co-founder conversations
Let’s talk.
Email me at [email protected] and tell me which conversation you have in mind. You can also contact me on LinkedIn.
Contract work
Architecture or engineering work in payments, messaging and distributed systems. Share the problem, scope and expected time commitment.
Aegis funding
Investment or other funding support for Aegis Works. Let’s discuss the product, current progress and the milestones funding could support.
Build Aegis together
I’m looking for a co-founder. Tell me what you could bring; we can discuss responsibilities, commitment and whether we’re a good fit.