About

Hey, I'm Doug Romano — a software architect based in St. Louis, Missouri. I've spent the last 25+ years building software with the .NET stack — C#, SQL Server, Azure, distributed systems, the works. That background matters, but it's not the current story.

The current story is AI. Specifically, what it actually looks like when you stop treating AI as a productivity tool and start treating it as the primary way you build software. I haven't typed production code by hand in months. I build with Claude Code and agentic workflows every day — not to chase trends, but because the results are undeniable.

This blog is where I document what that transition looks like in the real world. Not demos. Not two-minute clips. The actual patterns, the actual failures, and the things I wish someone had written down before I learned them the hard way.

What I write about

The focus here is AI-first software development — with enough .NET and architecture context to keep it grounded in real production systems:

• Agentic development workflows and Claude Code in practice
• MCP servers, tool calling, and building real AI agents
• What AI does well, where it fails, and how to steer it
• .NET and C# as a foundation — patterns, architecture, SQL Server
• How traditional engineering disciplines apply (and don't) in the AI era

Find me

I'm on LinkedIn and GitHub. If something I wrote is wrong, pull requests are welcome. You can also reach me directly at doug@romano.io.

The opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not represent the views of my employer, clients, or any organization I am affiliated with.