Technology leader / Architect / Builder
I'm Andrew Riley — Riles to most people. I connect business ambition with technical reality. From enterprise transformation to hands-on AI systems, I help people understand what's possible, build what's useful and make change stick.
25+
Years in enterprise technology
10
Architects led at Cisco
2×
Manager Excellence Awards
Experience that connects strategy and execution
I've worked across enterprise technology, cloud, critical infrastructure and healthcare. At Cisco I've led a ten-person architecture team and contributed to strategic customer engagements as deputy to the ANZ CTO. At Google Cloud, I established and led a regional architecture team. The thread through all of it is connecting technology decisions with the people and outcomes that matter.
Selected work
Personal lab · Applied AI
Exploring agent identities, scoped permissions, approval gates and observable behaviour as foundations for trustworthy systems.
Personal experiments, not production customer deployments.
Explore the work →Professional experience · Leadership
Building architecture capability, developing people and helping enterprise customers navigate complex technology decisions.
Cisco and Google Cloud architecture leadership.
Explore the work →Personal projects · Engineering
Using homelab infrastructure, automation and AI tooling to make ideas tangible, test assumptions and share practical lessons.
Hands-on projects and writing archive.
Explore the work →Business problem → Architecture → Responsible implementation → Adoption → Measurable value. A practical sequence for turning potential into progress.
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More than the work
I'm a technologist, leader, maker, DJ and lifelong learner. Music, family, wellbeing and hands-on projects bring different perspectives to the same things I value professionally: curiosity, creativity, connection and continual improvement.
Beyond work →
Experiments, decisions and lessons from building and leading.
22 Mar 2026
How to wire up the Splunk MCP server to both Claude Code and Claude Desktop in a homelab using token-based auth and mcp-remote as a TLS proxy.
2 Mar 2026
How I updated my Claude Code skill for creating Hugo blog posts to commit to a dev branch first, validate the live URL, and confirm before merging to main.
2 Mar 2026
An overview of the homeaiops project — its goals, architecture, three-domain structure, and where things stand today.
Interested in technology, architecture, AI or collaboration? I'd be glad to hear from you.
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