Adam Fiejdasz · AI security and architecture · West Linn, Oregon

I build AI systems for industries that have to prove they work.

Security architect at a financial institution by day. Builder the rest of the time. I design the controls, identity and data architecture that let regulated companies put generative AI into production, and I ship the products to show it can be done.

CISM · AAISM · AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, CDK · 20+ years from change management to solution architecture

Most AI programs stall between the demo and the audit. The model works, then security, legal and risk ask how it is governed, who the agent is acting as, and where the data went. Nobody has an answer that fits in a control framework.

That gap is where I work. I have more than twenty years in technology: corporate communications and organizational change first, then global project management, business analysis and solution architecture, much of it in security. The last three I have spent applying that to AI: threat models for agents, guardrails on Bedrock, audit trails a regulator can read.

I also build. The software on this page I designed and built myself, with AI agents doing most of the typing. The architecture decisions are mine.

Selected work

Four things I built that have to pass an audit.

Each one has a problem, an architecture and a result.

AI Security practice: two pillars, a secure-by-design operating model and an AI IAM reference architecture
Practice · Governance and agent identity

AI Security

An operating model and reference architecture for deploying AI in regulated companies: risk tiers, embedded SDLC controls, and an authorization layer for agents, tools, data and models.

NIST AI RMF · EU AI Act · SOC 2 · ISO 27001
Nartis prototype: AI-native healthcare quality control dashboard
Healthcare · Quality intelligence platform

Nartis

An AI-native platform for HEDIS and CMS Star Ratings: clinical data into a governed warehouse, measure logic that is transparent and auditable, results that quality leaders can act on. Designed and prototyped.

Designed and prototyped
Carplow search page: a saved search for a 1986 to 1987 Toyota 4x4, the plow truck clearing toy cars while a tachometer shows the sweep in progress, and graded listings below
Product · Marketplace car alerts

Carplow

Watches Facebook Marketplace for each saved search, grades every listing with Claude against market value, and emails the grades you pick. Live for a small group of friends: Next.js on Vercel, AWS CDK back end.

Live · friends only · AWS CDK
Pueblo Unido Properties website: your path to homeownership
Real estate · Website and bilingual AI agent

Pueblo Unido

A listings site and an AI agent that answers buyers in English and Spanish, qualifies leads, books viewings and hands off to Diana, the agent, when a person adds value. Live for a working brokerage.

Live · pueblounidoproperties.com
Also built

Businesses, products and brand work. Different muscles, same process.

How I build

I run an AI-first process.

Agents write most of the code. I own the architecture, the security model and the decision log.

01

Frame the problem in the language of the people who have to approve it.

Risk tier, data classification, who the system acts as, what a bad day looks like. This is written before any code.

02

Design the architecture, then the controls that travel with it.

Diagrams, trust boundaries, identity for every agent and tool, logging that an auditor can follow. On AWS this is usually Bedrock with Guardrails, CDK, and CloudWatch.

03

Build with agents, review like a security architect.

Claude Code and friends do the typing. I set the plan, read every diff that touches auth, data or money, and keep a written record of each decision.

04

Ship, measure, keep a tracker.

Everything I run has a live status page and a weekly review. If it is not measured it is not done.

Consulting

Three ways to work with me.

AI governance and security review

Two to four weeks. You get a risk-tiered operating model, a gap list against NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act, and a control set your engineers can live with.

Agent identity and authorization architecture

Scoping, delegation and audit for agents that call tools and touch data. Reference architecture on AWS, policy model, secure RAG.

Build a working prototype

Four to eight weeks from brief to a running system on your cloud, with the architecture and decision log to take it to production.

About

Architect first. Operator when it counts.

I am a Senior Security Architect at a financial institution, focused on AI security and governance. Before that: enterprise risk and identity governance at Nike, and AI governance across a portfolio of early-stage ventures. I hold CISM and AAISM. Outside work I co-own Kartcade and I build things like the ones above. I live in West Linn, Oregon.

  • CISM · AAISM
  • AWS: Bedrock, SageMaker, CDK, CloudWatch
  • Identity: SailPoint, CyberArk
  • GRC: NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, SOC 2, ISO 27001
  • West Linn, Oregon (Portland area) · remote-friendly
Contact

Working on something that has to pass an audit?

Tell me what you are building and who has to approve it. I will tell you in one call whether I can help.

Email me