About Ravi Shah
Executive Architect at IBM Consulting UK&I, London — agentic engineering for Financial Services
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.
Ravi has logged more than 1.4 billion tokens of hands-on agentic development and has spoken at the AWS European FSI Industry Analyst Summit (2024) and to IBM UK&I Chief Architects on engineering culture (2026).
At a glance
- Role
- Executive Architect, IBM Consulting UK&I
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
- Focus
- Agentic engineering, Context engineering, Deep agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI FinOps and token budgets, Shift-left security
- Writing
- 10 articles — syndicated to Medium, LinkedIn and DEV
- Open source
- deep-agent-anatomy, gitleaks-repo-scan-agent, llm-token-budget and more
- Speaking
- IBM UK&I Chief Architects (2026) · AWS European FSI Industry Analyst Summit (2024)
Selected writing
Press kit
For event organisers and editors — please use these as-is and link to ravishah.dev.
Short bio
Ravi Shah is an Executive Architect at IBM Consulting UK&I, based in London, specialising in agentic engineering for Financial Services. Ravi writes about agentic patterns, context engineering, token budgets and shift-left security, and publishes runnable open-source companions to that writing.
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Ravi Shah — Executive Architect at IBM Consulting UK&I, London — agentic engineering for Financial Services
Frequently asked
Who is Ravi Shah?
Ravi Shah is an Executive Architect at IBM Consulting UK&I, based in London, specialising in agentic engineering for Financial Services. Ravi writes about agentic patterns, context engineering, token budgets and shift-left security, and publishes runnable open-source companions to that writing.
What does Ravi Shah write about?
Agentic design patterns, context engineering, deep agents, token budget discipline (AI FinOps), the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in banking, and shift-left security. 10 articles are collected on ravishah.dev/writing.
Where has Ravi Shah spoken?
IBM UK&I Chief Architects (2026); AWS European FSI Industry Analyst Summit (2024).
How can I contact Ravi Shah?
The quickest route is a LinkedIn message at linkedin.com/in/ravishah01. Speaking and writing invitations are welcome.