About Salim
I like turning a complicated situation into a set of decisions people can act on.
I’m Founder and CEO of Thynkr Systems and a Principal AI & Solutions Architect. I work across AI, software engineering, data, cloud and platform modernisation, connecting architecture with practical delivery.
My perspective also comes from first-hand experience operating restaurant and trade businesses, where reliability, usability and accountability shape the working day.
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From building software to shaping systems.
My career began in software development and expanded through project and programme leadership into data, cloud, platform and AI architecture.
That breadth shapes how I work. A technically elegant design is only part of the job. It also needs to fit the organisation, address its constraints and give the team a credible route to production.
I am particularly interested in modernisation, platform recovery and the move from AI experimentation to useful operational capability.
Founder story
From running businesses to building for them.
Operating restaurant and trade businesses showed me how much depends on the till, the kitchen, the counter and the account records working together on a busy day.
That led to building products for those businesses: Pallet for the trade counter, and TableSyncAI for restaurant operations. Through Thynkr Systems, that work has grown into a portfolio of products and technology partnerships.
The same experience shapes my architecture practice: helping other organisations turn an operating problem into a system their teams can run.
Working principles
Understand the system. Make the choices visible.
Start with the situation
Listen to the people closest to the work. Establish the problem, the constraints and what is still uncertain before choosing a solution.
Show the trade-offs
Make assumptions, alternatives and consequences explicit so the organisation can make informed decisions.
Design the journey
Describe the transition states as carefully as the target. Keep security, operability and recovery in the architecture.
Stay close to delivery
Use governance to support progress. Adapt the design when implementation brings new evidence.
Education
MSc Advanced Computing with Data Mining
BSc Computing Information Systems
London Metropolitan University