How a build runs.

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Rhythm Shahriar is an entrepreneur and tech architect who helps teams turn business workflows into useful software and AI systems. He is co-founder of FastFlowUp and his consultancy draws on building its products and working through delivery decisions firsthand. He has worked on projects for Square, DIRECTV, Epson, AT&T and M&T Bank, among others. He works across architecture and hands-on delivery, forward deployed with the client team where the engagement calls for it. The focus stays on what people can actually use. His talks lead with the business problem, show the screen early and always ask the same question of a system before it goes live: what happens when this fails?

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Rhythm Shahriar is an entrepreneur and tech architect. He is co-founder of FastFlowUp, where he builds products and helps teams turn complex workflows into practical software and AI systems. His consultancy draws on building those products and working through the delivery decisions firsthand, from scoping a first workflow to the handover a team has to own once the engineer has left. He works across architecture and hands-on delivery, forward deployed with the client team where the engagement calls for it. The focus stays on what people can actually use rather than what a demo can show. He has led software development teams at Informa TechTarget and Industry Dive and has worked on projects for Square, DIRECTV, Epson, AT&T and M&T Bank, among others. On stage he explains as if to one capable colleague: the problem and its business consequence first, then the decision behind the build, then the working system with its failure case in view. Each talk says whether the example is a demo, a pilot or a production system and where a person still decides. He asks one question of every system before it goes live: what happens when this fails? And he ends the same way each time: here is what I would do next.