About
Weidong Shi
AI Solutions Architect with 28 years in software architecture and development — building practical AI solutions and documenting how they ship.
Based in the Greater Pittsburgh Region, my career spans enterprise platforms, CMS/DXP, cloud delivery, and long-lived product systems. The timeline below is a brief employment overview — context for who I am as an architect.
This website is a personal lab and professional portfolio, not a catalog of client or employer projects. Everything you see in Work and Insights — RetireCheck, SleepCheck, AI in Action writing — is independent work meant to demonstrate architecture judgment and AI-enabled delivery.
The purpose is practical: show how AI-assisted engineering works under real constraints, and give engineers, architects, and hiring audiences honest lessons from production-ready personal case studies — architecture, tradeoffs, failures, and shipped systems.
Focus
What this site is for
Principles behind the personal AI showcase and writing.
AI-enabled delivery with judgment
Write the rules and architecture first; let AI accelerate the keystrokes. Engineering judgment owns boundaries, tests, and what ships.
Personal case studies only
Public apps and essays from my own lab — not employer deliverables. Learn from systems you can open, run, and critique.
Insights for builders
Aimed at software engineers and architects who want practical direction on AI-assisted development — not hype threads.
Ship, then teach
Deployable products, CI, and honest write-ups beat slideware. Production readiness is the proof.
Journey
Brief career path
Selected roles for orientation — the showcase above is independent personal work.
Ongoing
AI in Action · Personal Lab
Independent projects and case studies
Building and documenting practical AI-enabled products—including RetireCheck, SleepCheck, and the AI Production Readiness Advisor—with a focus on architecture, delivery, privacy, and responsible engineering.
2023 — Present
Senior Technology Architect
Infosys
Enterprise digital experience and modernization architecture spanning cloud, data, platforms, and software delivery.
2022 — 2023
Sitecore Developer Lead
CNO Financial Group
Technical leadership for Sitecore CMS across web properties.
2018 — 2021
Principal Software Architect
Author Solutions
Platform architecture and delivery practices for publishing systems.
2008 — 2018
Software Systems Developer / Architect
Michael Baker International
Long-running ownership of engineering software systems — development through architecture.
Earlier career
Software development & architecture
Consulting, telecom, publishing, and higher ed
Foundations across full-stack development, systems engineering, and architecture — building toward nearly three decades in the field.