Introduce

Hi, I design and build software, with a focus on Agentic Engineering

Helping organizations build scalable platforms, modernize software systems, and adopt AI-enabled engineering practices.

17+

Years of
Experience

4x

Microsoft MVP

1

Publication

About

Who am I?

I'm a Staff Engineer, cloud architect, and independent consultant behind GKG Software Consultancy B.V. I help organizations build cloud-native platforms, modernize software systems, and adopt AI-enabled engineering practices.

My areas of focus include Azure cloud architecture, platform engineering, developer experience, and agentic AI systems. I enjoy turning complex technical challenges into scalable and maintainable solutions that help engineering teams move faster and with greater confidence.

I proudly held the title of Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Development Technologies from 2019 to 2022.

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Latest Posts

Keeping Specs and Shared Understanding Aligned at AI Speed

With AI-assisted engineering, we engineers are moving faster and changes are getting shipped faster. This is also true for my own daily work. But I must say, the work surrounding those changes doesn’t really get smaller. I have always believed that complexity never goes away, it just moves to a different place. Because of this […]

From AI Conversations to Durable Engineering: What Spec-Driven Development Changed in My Workflow

Over the last couple of months, like probably many developers, I have been using AI coding agents more and more as part of my daily engineering workflow. I would say they are great thinking partners… I can explore an architecture, challenge an idea, ask them to inspect an existing codebase and iterate on a design […]

Runtime Governance for AI Agents: Policy-as-Code with OPA

In my previous article, I tried to show how we can build a simple but practical AI Agent using Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) with deterministic routing and intelligent search. I also mentioned that I kept things simple on purpose and that in a production scenario there are other concerns that need to be addressed. Building the agent itself is really […]

Gökhan Gökalp

Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering & Agentic AI