I'm Tom Tokita. Co-founder and President of Aether Global Technology, a Salesforce consulting firm in Manila. I've worn every hat in enterprise tech over the past 14 years. Along the way, I built an AI operations system to keep up with the work. Not planned. Engineered out of necessity.
NVIDIA’s vice president of applied deep learning, Bryan Catanzaro, said something in an Axios interview in April 2026 that should have stopped every enterprise AI roadmap cold: “For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees.” That is not a critic talking. That is the VP of the company […]
Most tech leaders either write code or run the business. I ended up doing both. Not by design, but because a lean consulting firm in Manila doesn't come with a big support team. I admin our Google Workspace, configure our Jira, maintain our servers, built our website, and still help with delivery, marketing, and sales.
That's 10 roles before lunch. So I started building systems to keep up, and that's how I got deep into AI operations.