GerhardBalz
Senior Solution & Product Architect | Wealth Management & Avaloq | Platform Modernization | AI-assisted Engineering
I have more than 20 years of experience designing and delivering banking technology. My work combines deep Wealth Management and Avaloq experience with product, platform, application and integration architecture.
I turn complex business and technical knowledge into composable, governed capabilities and executable systems. I use explicit architecture, inspectable evidence and automation to move quickly without surrendering decision authority to opaque tooling.
My current independent work explores how formal semantics, provenance, verification and executable mechanisms can remain connected from model to API, service, agent and user experience.
- Semantic Knowledge Engineering (SKE) — the organizing initiative for authoritative semantic models, implementation projections, persistent publication and executable knowledge.
- Executable Semantic Knowledge Architecture (ESKA) — a reference architecture and executable evidence for keeping semantics explicit through execution, provenance and verification.
- Pizza Ontology — an approachable end-to-end proving ground spanning OWL/Protégé, ODK/OAK, reasoning, validation, projections, OpenAPI, APIs, UX and executable artifacts.
Supporting foundation: Semantic Modeling Ontology (SMO) defines a deliberately small distinction between authoritative semantic models and non-authoritative implementation projections.
- Start with the business problem, capability and decision authority.
- Make ownership, boundaries, interfaces and provenance explicit.
- Keep meaning and verification connected through implementation and execution.
- Build inspectable evidence and test whether concepts generalize.
- Use AI and automation where they accelerate the work; retain deterministic authority and review where required.
- Banking platforms, Wealth Management and Avaloq
- Solution, product, application and integration architecture
- Composable capabilities, APIs and event-driven systems
- Platform and legacy modernization
- Governed AI-assisted and semantic engineering
This organization contains my independent public work. Referenced standards, ontologies and external projects remain under their respective authorities. Nothing here implies endorsement by an employer, client, standards body, ontology author or community.
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An open initiative for authoritative semantic modeling, implementation projection, persistent publication, and executable knowledge without severing semantics.
- executable-semantic-knowledge-architecture Public
Reference architecture and executable examples for formally represented, machine-interpretable, provenance-aware, verifiable, and agent-accessible knowledge.
- semantic-modeling-wine-food Public
An exploration of the W3C OWL Wine and Food Ontology using the Semantic Modeling Ontology, including semantic models, constraints, projections, and operational artifacts.
- semantic-modeling-pizza Public
An exploration of the Protégé Pizza Ontology using the Semantic Modeling Ontology, including semantic models, constraints, projections, and operational artifacts.
- pizza-ontology Public
A modern Pizza OWL reference project for Protégé, ODK, OAK, reasoning, semantic modeling, APIs and executable knowledge.
- semantic-modeling-ontology Public
A small, standards-aligned ontology for authoritative semantic models and their non-authoritative implementation projections.
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