Aaron Tan Dani

Aaron Tan Dani

President of EA Chapter & Fellow of SCS
Aaron Tan Dani has a strong passion in the area Enterprise Architecture (EA) related fields. He firmly believes that only with the proper practice of this EA discipline that maximum value of IT investment can be realized by the business. With this keen passion and selfless contribution, he has been actively involved as the Founder and the Chairman of IASA Asia Pacific since 2004 and was actively involved in setting up and leading IASA Chapters across the Asia Pacific countries. He was part of the core team to define the world's first 256 IT Architect's skill set in 2004 in the Seattle, WA, USA. Since December 2009, Aaron has been actively delivering these courses in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, China and Indonesia, with roadmap to deliver this program across the rest of the Asia Pacific region As an industry thought leader in the EA arena, Aaron is a frequent public speaker and he speaks with passion and charisma and has been consistently ranked in the top 10% in speaker ratings in most of the international technology events. His charismatic, passionate and entertaining presentation style has been well received. In addition, Aaron is also an Accredited Trainer for TOGAF 9, ArchiMate 3 and he is also an IASA Accredited Trainer (CITA-F & CITA-A) in the field of EA and is the Co-Author of the IASA IT Architecture Body of Knowledge (ITABoK).
API Lifecycle Management

Decoding Complexity: Navigating the Differences Between Hairball Architecture and Enterprise Architecture in the API Realm

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As a former developer, I've spent countless hours crafting APIs and services, driven by a passion to deliver value and better services to businesses. However, with time and experience, I realized that the haste to develop more APIs often led to unintended consequences. One critical aspect that often gets overlooked is the sustainability and maintainability of these APIs. Who will maintain them? How can we ensure they are sustainable in the long run? This reflection brings us to the concept of Enterprise Architecture Debt (EAD), especially within the API realm....