Software & solution architecture
Target architectures, architecture reviews, technical due diligence and roadmaps for platforms that must scale across teams, tenants and regions.
Selectively taking advisory engagements
Software architecture for systems that have to last.
Divinity Software is the consulting practice of Jignesh Patel, a solution architect with more than 25 years of enterprise delivery. Today the work centres on Azure, AI integration, intelligent automation, machine learning and data science, built on the same discipline that kept multinational platforms running for over a decade.
25+years architecting enterprise software
15+multinational enterprise clients served while at JZERO Solutions
24 yrscontinuous partnership with one UK client
01 — Practice
Senior architecture judgement, applied where it changes outcomes.
Badly designed systems are hard to maintain, support and extend, and AI makes that worse, not better. I help teams make the structural decisions that keep software dependable as it grows.
Azure cloud architecture
Azure landing zones, application modernization, identity and security design, cost-aware infrastructure and migration from on-premise .NET estates.
AI integration
Bringing large language models into existing products: retrieval over your own data, copilots, evaluation and guardrails, all inside your permissions model.
AI automation
Agentic workflows and intelligent process automation that remove manual effort from operations, with humans in the loop where it matters.
Machine learning
Speech, text and image analysis and predictive models, built on open-source or commercial services and taken to production with monitoring and clear ownership.
Data science & analytics
Turning operational data into decisions: analysis, forecasting and the Azure analytics components that put insight in front of the people who act on it.
Data engineering
Extraction and transformation pipelines from on-premise, SaaS and online sources into data lakes that are secure, governed and fast to query.
Enterprise integration
Connecting systems across vendors and technologies, including single sign-on, directory sync, payments, data exchange and reporting pipelines.
02 — How engagements run
From business problem to running system.
- Step 1UnderstandConversations with stakeholders and vendors to map the real problem, the constraints and the existing estate.
- Step 2ArchitectA documented target architecture with options, trade-offs, phasing and cost so decisions are made deliberately.
- Step 3Deliver alongsideHands-on technical leadership with your team through build, integration and rollout.
- Step 4SustainSupport, governance and an architecture that your team can own and evolve without me.
03 — Experience
I've grown up alongside the web, from plain HTML to AI.
A Master in Computer Applications from South Gujarat University (1999), then thirteen years in the core management team of a UK learning-technology company before founding Divinity Software. Throughout, the constant has been designing systems that integrate many vendors into one dependable platform.
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2024 — now
Solutions Architect, US data & analytics company Dedicated engagement designing secure, high-performance SaaS, mobile and data platforms, data pipelines from on-premise and SaaS sources, and ML for speech, text and image analysis.
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2012 — 2024
Consultant Technical Architect, JZERO UK Architected the latest generation of JZERO's core learning platform on Azure, led its AI integration, and ran research and proofs of concept for hard product problems.
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2012 — now
Founder, Divinity Software Independent architecture, product development and systems integration, including the Resquark product, alongside co-founding ThinQuity Enterprise.
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1999 — 2012
Technical Architect & Operations Manager, JZERO Built and ran the Indian development centre of a UK learning-technology company. Architected the JLMS enterprise platform and led third-party integration for JZERO's 15+ multinational clients, including Orange, Siemens, Shell, HP, Deutsche Bank and Merck.
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Credentials
Microsoft Certified
- Azure Solutions Architect ExpertAug 2024
- Azure Developer AssociateAug 2024
- Azure Administrator AssociateJul 2024
- Azure Data Engineer AssociateFeb 2024
04 — Selected work
Architecture problems, not brochure sites.
Data & analytics SaaS · Current
Data and AI platform architecture for an analytics company
Designing extraction and transformation from on-premise, SaaS and online sources into Azure data lakes, setting security and performance practice across SaaS, mobile and data products, and evaluating ML services for speech, text and image analysis.
Azure data lakeETLML
For JZERO UK · Cloud & AI
Re-architecting an enterprise LMS for Azure and AI
Designed the newest version of a long-running enterprise learning platform on Azure cloud architecture, oversaw implementation, and integrated AI capabilities into the product.
AzureAI integrationModernization
Via JZERO Solutions · Product architecture
An enterprise LMS taken from V1 to V5
Architected an adaptive, multi-site learning platform for server farms and distributed content, then extended it with single sign-on, directory sync (Active Directory, Novell, Sun One), events management, e-commerce and SCORM 2004 sequencing.
Multi-tenantIdentityStandards
Via JZERO Solutions · IT certification
Learning paths wired into live labs and libraries
Helped JZERO win NETg's largest outsourced project on the strength of an early .NET architecture. Orchestrated Cisco virtual labs, Safari online books, exam booking and mentoring into one adaptive study plan that ran from the first lesson to exam day.
OrchestrationReal-time data
Non-profit · Emergency operations
Dispatch for 250 rescue calls in 12 hours
Designed a call-capture and dispatch system for an animal-rescue trust that kept average response time to 3 minutes 20 seconds on its busiest day of the year.
OperationsAutomation
05 — In their words
What clients say.
“Anytime we gave him a problem we thought he could not do, he came back with a solution. We ended up adding several enhancements, and every time we got the beta code to test, everything worked as expected.”
“They created a fantastic, easy to understand yet comprehensive system for registration and logistics. When runners say organizers of bigger marathons should learn several things from this, you know this team has done absolutely great work.”
“The solution helped us achieve a response time of 3 minutes 20 seconds on the emergency day when we receive 250 calls in 12 hours for injured birds. Your solution really empowers us.”
“Jignesh has a very good eye for detail. He is able to grasp complex ideas and convert them into simple, functional software. In Jignesh we found a team with the focus and drive to understand our business in detail and think of ideas that made sense for us.”
“Jignesh is a highly skilled techie with very good command over .NET technology. He understands requirements in detail very quickly. Very much focused on the task given and a true professional.”
06 — Questions
Before we talk.
What kind of engagements do you take on?
Architecture reviews, long-term architecture partnerships, AI and data initiatives, and technical leadership for teams that need senior judgement without a full-time hire.
Can you add AI to an existing product?
Yes. Most AI work is integration work: connecting models to your data, workflows and permissions safely. That is where 25 years of systems integration pays off.
Do you work with clients outside India?
Yes. I work remotely from India with English-speaking clients in any region, as I have with UK, European and US clients for most of my career. Engagements are fully remote; I don't work on-site.
Which technology stack do you work in?
Primarily Microsoft Azure and .NET, with Python for machine learning and data science, plus whatever your existing systems require.
07 — Contact
Have a system that needs an architect?
Tell me what you're building or untangling. I reply personally, usually within two working days.