Alicia Canta · Personal Engineering Lab

Data Architecture,
Governance & Security.

Designing governed data platforms, zero-trust security controls, and agentic AI architectures connecting context, technology, and business decisions.

ANNA Lab is my personal engineering space to turn architectural blueprints into executable tools, document design decisions, and evaluate security guardrails.

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Data Architecture · Data Governance · Information Security · Cybersecurity · AI Architecture

Architecture Notebook02 / 03

From Data to Decision.

An end-to-end view of data flows, security boundaries, and component trade-offs.

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Arqa · Open Engineering Lab

Explore an architecture,
decision by decision.

Explore three core architecture blueprints: a serverless web platform, an enterprise data lakehouse, and a contextual AI assistant. Inspect design choices, trade-offs, and security boundaries. No registration required.

01 / ARCHITECTUREDemo

Serverless Web Platform

Static & serverless AWS deployment: S3, CloudFront, ACM, security headers, and clean distribution.

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02 / GOVERNANCEDemo

Governed Data Lakehouse

End-to-end journey from raw source ingestion to a governed, audit-ready data product layer.

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03 / SECURITYLab

Cybersecurity & Threat Model

STRIDE threat modeling, API exfiltration prevention, bot risk mitigation, and NIST CSF 2.0 controls.

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Each blueprint includes detailed design decisions, trade-off analysis, and security boundaries to evaluate before implementation.

Engineering Philosophy

Context first.
Technology with purpose.

A great solution must be explainable, operationally sound, and securely evolvable. In this personal lab, every component has an explicit purpose and every pattern makes its limits visible.

More about the lab philosophy
  1. 01

    Understand Before Building

    Start with business context, compliance requirements, real data boundaries, and threat vectors.

  2. 02

    Balanced Engineering

    Equilibrate performance, zero-trust security controls, operational cost, and maintainability.

  3. 03

    Explicit Rationale & Trade-offs

    Document architectural trade-offs, verify security controls, and continuously learn from execution.

Continuous Exploration

Explore detailed blueprints for Data Governance and Cybersecurity & AppSec.

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