About
I’m Adam Tibi. I’ve spent 26 years building software where the rules are strict and the stakes are real: Lloyd’s of London insurance market, credit risk at Lloyds Bank, credit card platform at NewDay, and Shell’s trading front office. Through all of it I’ve stayed hands-on. Today I’m Head of Technology Strategy at Aviva Global Corporate & Specialty in London.
My focus now is agentic engineering: AI agents refining requirements and writing the code, with engineers in a regulated environments managing the process, also known as "human-on-the-loop." The hard question is never what agents can do, it’s what you can let them do and still stand behind every decision when the auditor asks. That tension between capability and accountability is what my writings are about.
Agentic engineering is changing how software is shipped, and the methodologies and frameworks we govern teams with will have to evolve just as fast as the models do.
From TDD to agents
The guardrails instinct is not new to me. After years of championing software engineering best practices including test-driven development, I wrote Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET (opens in a new tab) for Packt. The same discipline that puts a test before the code now puts a boundary before the agent. Machine learning pulled me in early, too: my series on LSTM forecasting (opens in a new tab) was picked up by Towards AI.
Beyond the day job
The “Hello World” of every engineer’s about page is the first-computer story, and I won’t break tradition: mine was a 386 running MS-DOS and Windows 3.11, where fifteen-year-old me modified Microsoft Gorillas in QBasic, then wrote a program that drew equations on a Cartesian plane. I never stopped tinkering: outside work I build free products, partly to keep my engineering sharp, mostly to stay out of the ivory tower. I’m also completing an MBA at Hult Business School.
Get in touch
The conversation lives on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab); if you’re bringing AI agents into a regulated organization, I’d welcome it. I’m also on X (opens in a new tab) and GitHub (opens in a new tab), or you can reach me at a@adamtibi.com.