Jean Malaquias

📋 Biography

I am a Principal AI Architect and Microsoft MVP in the Microsoft Foundry category, recognized for my enterprise Generative AI work and active contribution to the agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem. With 18+ years in cloud architecture and 5+ years shipping production GenAI, I architect multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and AI governance baselines on Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock. As Director of Enterprise Architecture (AI Focus) at Cendyn, I lead AI platform direction across a multi-product hospitality-tech portfolio, embedding evaluation loops, content safety, and Responsible AI controls into production. I have been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2014 and was a Microsoft AI Tour for Partners 2025 GenAI-Track speaker across Canada and the USA, training 300+ engineers on agentic AI, RAG, and orchestration. I share MCP and AI architecture patterns with a 32K+ practitioner audience on LinkedIn.