Enterprise architecture · delivery · applied AI
Director of Enterprise Architecture
I lead enterprise architecture and hands-on delivery for complex, regulated software, connecting strategy, modern platforms, and applied AI to create measurable outcomes.
Baker Hill (~150 people, ~60 developers): enterprise architecture across AI document intelligence, digital account opening, and loan origination, spanning about ten delivery teams. Six-person architecture leadership (one direct, five architects) reports to a VP. Platform direction and NFRs shape work for roughly fifty engineers company-wide.

Summary
Gunnar Hoffman directs enterprise architecture at Baker Hill. Since 2010 he has built and led software professionally in fintech, government, higher education, and nonprofits, and he still contributes in code through frameworks, customer betas, and applied AI.
Recent experience
Director of Enterprise Architecture
Lead enterprise architecture for Baker Hill's software portfolio: defining platform direction, integration patterns, and engineering standards that support regulated financial institution customers.
Senior Application Developer
Deliver full-stack web and mobile software for Indiana state government, from statewide citizen-facing products to custom applications for agencies too small to staff their own development teams, through IOT's centralized Application Development program.
Differentiator
AI & architecture case studies
Agentic statement spreading for commercial lending
Lenders receive large document packages: financial statements, tax returns, and supporting files. Analysts historically re-keyed figures into spreading tools by hand. Statement periods had to balance; when they did not, teams traced line items to the right chart-of-accounts entries through slow, manual research. The work consumed skilled analyst time and invited transcription and mapping errors.
Document packages that once drove hours of manual spreading and reconciliation can load in minutes with balanced statements and math already verified. The analyst role shifts to brief verification: confirming results, refining a few line names or placements, instead of building the spread from scratch.
Agent-ready engineering standards at scale
As Baker Hill scaled Angular and C# delivery, with engineers adopting AI-assisted coding along the way, teams felt the same friction from several directions at once: review churn, inconsistent patterns across repos, slow onboarding to “how we build here,” and rework when agent-generated changes did not match architecture or product conventions.
Stronger pattern consistency and higher-quality AI-assisted pull requests, with less review churn before code reaches “good enough.” Teams reach acceptable quality faster, which also cuts wasted agent iteration and token use. The same corpus laid groundwork for an agentic SDLC pipeline that can reason about Baker Hill’s frameworks, processes, and environments, not just isolated snippets.
Stack & tools
Architecture patterns
- Enterprise architecture, platform direction, and NFRs in regulated domains
- Agentic pipelines with schema-bound outputs, verification loops, and auditability
- Shift-left testing and regression control for non-deterministic AI components
- Angular schematics and engineering standards at team scale
Languages & frameworks
- C# / .NET (services, installers, background sync)
- TypeScript / Angular (product UIs)
- Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java for mobile and JVM application stacks
- Astro, PHP, SQL (selected by project context)
Cloud & infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure (AI Foundry, Functions, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage)
- Static hosting and CI deploy patterns
Development tools
- Git for branching, review, and release workflows
- Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Xcode, Android Studio: IDEs by stack and platform
- Cursor and Claude for agent-assisted development alongside conventional tooling
AI/ML tools
- Azure AI Foundry and model-agnostic agent frameworks
- LLM orchestration with deterministic verification companions
- Cursor-style rules, skills, and agent workflows for engineering quality
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