Solutions Architect · AI · Photography · Drawing

LoknathBaskar

Solution architect and AI innovation leader. I design systems by day, and photograph and draw the rest of the time.

Twenty years of building software that has to keep working, from Bangalore and Chennai to Chicago, from IBM mainframes to Azure Kubernetes, and now teams that ship with AI agents at their side.

20+ yearsbuilding software

Mainframe → AKS → Agentsthe long way round

AI-native SDLCwhat I lead

Pen & inkstippling, hatching

Behind the lenslight, mostly

Work

Architecture for teams that build with AI

I'm AVP Solutions Architect at Combined Insurance, a Chubb company. Before that I spent nearly 19 years at Accenture, growing from associate engineer to senior manager of application development.

Delivery

An AI-assisted SDLC

I architect and govern agents for business analysis, code generation and automated validation, so AI works inside the delivery process instead of around it.

in use by our teams

Governance

Guardrails for AI adoption

Enterprise guardrails, audit trails and compliance controls that let an insurer adopt AI tooling with confidence.

Tooling

MCP and developer tooling

MCP server integrations and AI-powered developer tools wired into enterprise workflows, built on LLM APIs, RAG and multi-agent orchestration.

Culture

AIgnite hackathon

I built and run our internal AI hackathon. The first round drew 22+ ideas, and 5 advanced to build.

Tech stack

Azure · AKSCloud
PythonAI & automation
Angular · TypeScriptFront end
Java · .NETServices
IBM MainframeCore systems

Certifications

Claude with the Anthropic APIAnthropic · 2025
Building RAG Apps Using MongoDBMongoDB · 2025
Technology ArchitectAccenture · 2024
AWS Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS · 2021–24 · Expired
Azure FundamentalsMicrosoft · 2020
Certified ScrumMasterCSM

Recognition

TechStar2018 · 2020 · 2022
Innovation Champion2018
Accenture Celebrate Excellence2009
ASE Achievers AwardAccenture · 2007

Photography

What I notice with a camera

A few favorites, mostly light doing something unexpected on an ordinary day. Select any photo to see it larger.

A low-angle view down a path covered in fallen golden leaves, lined with elm trees in full autumn color — Gold underfootAutumn path · Oct 2026

A great blue heron lifting off from still water, its reflection mirrored below it, with golden trees reflected at the top of the frame — Heron, mirroredLakeside · Oct 2026

A crescent moon over the lights of Los Angeles at night, with a searchlight beam across the sky — Moonrise over the cityLos Angeles · Jul 2026

The Chicago River at blue hour, with the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and city lights along the riverbank — Chicago River at duskChicago

A tall, intricately carved temple tower rising above trees against a vivid blue sky with clouds — Gopuram against the skySouth India

A black-and-white view of an old diesel locomotive parked on a short stretch of track under a dramatic cloudy sky — Retired locomotive

See all 31 photos

Drawing

Thinking with a pencil

Pen and ink, stippling one dot at a time, pencil, and the occasional painting. Select any piece to see it larger.

A hummingbird in flight, wings raised, drawn entirely in stippled pen dots — HummingbirdStippling, pen on paper · 2020

An upside-down astronaut reaching toward a deep-sea diver among floating bubbles — Astronaut and diverInk on paper

A close-up of the Buddha’s serene face in yellow, eyes closed — StillnessAcrylic on paper

A terracotta pot painted with white Warli folk-art figures dancing and playing music — Warli potWarli painting on clay

See all 25 drawings

Writing

Notes & articles

Published
A simple framework for automating daily report pipelines with Claude
A four-step pattern for turning more data than anyone wants to read into a daily report people use, shown with a vulnerability report.
Medium · Jul 2026
Published
Omnigent: what Databricks' meta-harness gets right about agent sprawl
What the new open-source layer solves for teams juggling several agent tools, and where I would still be cautious.
Medium · Jul 2026

Contact

Let's talk architecture, AI or a good photograph.

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