Balaji Boominathan
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Now · updated October 2026

What I’m working on.

A snapshot, updated every month or so. The idea comes from Derek Sivers’ now page movement.

At work

  • Leading AI at BorgWarner from Enterprise IT, supporting functions such as engineering, manufacturing, SG&A, finance and quality.
  • A focused set of lighthouse projects, each chosen to prove a pattern that can scale to production.
  • Building the platform layers underneath: gateway, evaluation and observability, a governance and risk registry, and an agent runtime.

Building

  • Rebuilding Sylang on the customer’s own data platform, Databricks first, with product line and variant management as the first slice.
  • Exploring programme management for engineering on the same data, starting with a scheduling engine.
  • ValueAI: value stream mapping from four kinds of evidence, before choosing where AI goes.

The book

  • The draft edition of Sylang: MBSE for AI is online. Finishing the companion projects, front and back matter, and typesetting.

Experiments

  • Running Qwen3.8-27B on vLLM on my home GPU server for agent work. What I learned.
  • Building the evaluation suite for a small model that rewrites requirements into EARS notation without inventing anything.

Writing

    Try “agents”, “ISO 26262”, “MCP” or “FMEA”.