Available for Principal Architecture & Enterprise Consulting

I help enterprise teams deliver complex Workday integrations with less risk and less delivery drag.

Principal Workday Integration & Extend Architect with 10+ years across Deloitte, Kognitiv, and Syssero. My specialty is solving "impossible" platform problems with a 100% delivery record—I have never had to tell a customer something couldn't be built.

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Steven Garone
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Steven Garone

Principal Workday Integration & Extend Architect

📍 Phoenix, AZ • Remote / Hybrid

⭐ Workday Extend Certified ⭐ Workday Studio Certified ⭐ Certified Integration Consultant 🏛️ Deloitte Consulting Alumni 📈 1,000+ Integrations • 100% Delivered
1,000+ Workday Integrations Delivered (10+ Yrs)
100% Delivery Record (Never Told a Client "No")
54% Faster Extend Velocity (AI Tooling)
0 Post-Launch Defects (Playwright Test Harness)
The Differentiator

Why Enterprise Engineering Leaders Bring Me In

Most consultancies bill four resources to configure standard screens and wait on vendor tickets. I specialize in the "impossible" requirements, mentor teams to scale, and automate delivery pipelines with Big 4 rigor.

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The "Impossible Problem" Specialist

When other architects say "Workday can't do that" or integrations hit undocumented runtime buffer limits, I find the workaround and deliver.

The Common Trap: Teams tell leadership a critical business request is "impossible" or stall for weeks waiting on vendor tickets.
What I Deliver: Across 10+ years and 1,000+ integrations, I have never had to tell a customer we couldn't build something.
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Practice Scaling & Talent Training

Scaling an enterprise integration practice requires elevating the entire bench, not just relying on isolated heroes.

The Common Trap: Junior hires struggle with steep Workday learning curves while senior architects burn out hoarding knowledge.
What I Deliver: Designed and led custom training bootcamps that mentored entry-level employees into certified Workday integration consultants.
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54% Faster Velocity & Zero Defects

Moving fast in enterprise ERP requires bulletproof security boundaries to protect sensitive payroll, ATS, and financial records.

The Common Trap: 4-person consulting squads billing 6-figure SOWs, or hasty builds that fail SOX audits and break on releases.
What I Deliver: Directed Claude to draft 130KB+ technical specs in days, backed by Deloitte zero-trust ISU security and automated Playwright tests.
Executive Endorsement

What Leadership Says

“

Steven thrives under pressure. He was the consultant we went to when client requests seemed impossible. I highly recommend him if you're looking to bring in a go getter with a great attitude!

Amber Lowry
CEO & Founder, Syssero • Co-Founder, Systics • Early Workday Employee #735
Former Direct Leadership
Proven Results

Enterprise Case Studies

Detailed breakdowns of how I solve critical platform bottlenecks, de-risk ERP integrations, and accelerate custom Workday Extend application delivery.

Workday Studio & Maya Engine Enterprise Technology Leader • High-Volume Recruiting

Workday Maya Engine Runtime Recovery & High-Throughput Binary Streaming

Role: Senior Principal Integration Architect & Technical Rescue Lead

🎯 The Employer's Problem
A high-volume talent acquisition integration streaming candidate documents into an external AI Hub crashed intermittently in production. Standard consulting teams were unable to locate the failure and spent weeks waiting on vendor support tickets.
⚠️ Constraints & Risks
Thousands of candidate records stalled in transit, threatening global hiring SLAs and regulatory compliance. Workday provided zero runtime documentation for the specific binary payload buffer limits.
🛠️ What I Changed & Engineered
Reverse-engineered the undocumented Maya execution runtime. Identified a memory buffer reallocation bug in CreateTextTemplate that injected null-padding (AAAA...) into Base64 streams. Re-architected streaming PubSub orchestrations with strict ISU least-privilege scoping.
📊 Key Tech Stack
Workday Studio, Maya Engine Internals, PubSub Orchestrations, Base64 Streaming, XSLT 3.0, Integration System User (ISU) Security.
Measurable Business Outcome
Deployed zero-defect production fix in 48 hours. Restored high-throughput dataflow for tens of thousands of candidate documents with 100% data integrity and zero subsequent vendor support escalations.
Workday Extend & AI Tooling Tier-1 Research University • Higher Education & Research

AI-Accelerated Workday Extend Delivery Engine (54% Cycle Time Reduction)

Role: Lead Integration & Extend Architect

🎯 The Employer's Problem
The client required a bespoke Workday Extend application with custom business objects, multi-step approval routing, and granular FERPA security domains, but was quoted 16 weeks and a six-figure SOW by external vendors.
⚠️ Constraints & Risks
Rigid fiscal year budget deadlines and strict zero-defect requirements for student and faculty compensation data. Internal IT lacked bandwidth to support a protracted deployment.
🛠️ What I Changed & Engineered
Built a proprietary AI-assisted Extend development pipeline directing Claude MCP systems to compile 130KB+ comprehensive technical design specifications, Custom Business Object schemas, PMD layouts, and automated Playwright browser test suites.
📊 Key Tech Stack
Workday Extend, Custom Business Objects, Multi-Step Orchestrations, Claude MCP Architecture System, Playwright Automated Testing.
Measurable Business Outcome
Delivered full-lifecycle custom Extend application in 3.5 weeks (54% cycle time reduction) versus 16-week baseline, saving over $100,000 in consulting fees with zero post-launch defects.
Enterprise AI Agent & DevCon 2026 Workday DevCon 2026 Hackathon • Kognitiv / Systics

Agent Syft: Workday Developer Agent Platform for Financial Reconciliation

Role: Principal Innovation Architect & Lead Full-Stack Engineer

🎯 The Employer's Problem
Enterprise finance teams spend hundreds of manual hours reconciling duplicate customer billing accounts, mismatched contract hierarchies, and unallocated invoices across Workday Revenue Management.
⚠️ Constraints & Risks
Financial records cannot be modified without strict SOX auditability and controller sign-off. AI agents cannot perform unsupervised database mutations in enterprise tenants.
🛠️ What I Changed & Engineered
Architected "Agent Syft" on the native Workday Developer Agent platform. Implemented declarative conversational reasoning (.agent / .agentskill), isolated sandbox Python fuzzy matching, and human-in-the-loop merge Orchestrations (executeMerges).
📊 Key Tech Stack
Workday Developer Agent, .agent & .agentskill Declarations, Python Sandbox, Workday Financials REST APIs, SOX Audit Logging.
Measurable Business Outcome
Selected for the Workday DevCon 2026 Developer Agent showcase. Demonstrated an estimated 70% reduction in manual reconciliation effort while maintaining complete SOX compliance and controller oversight.
Enterprise Credentials

10+ Years of Enterprise Architecture & Leadership

Over 1,000 integrations delivered across Big 4 consulting at Deloitte and boutique enterprise practices, building the mission-critical systems that power multi-billion-dollar global organizations.

Active Workday Certifications (3x)

Certified in Workday's most demanding technical tiers, enabling custom application development and deep runtime troubleshooting directly within customer tenants.

⭐ Workday Certified Professional — Extend
Bespoke Workday applications, custom business objects, multi-step Orchestrations, and REST API endpoints.
⭐ Workday Certified Workday Studio Consultant
Advanced Studio assemblies, complex MVEL scripting, error handlers, and high-volume SFTP pipelines.
⭐ Workday Certified Integration Consultant
Core Connectors, Document Transformation (XSLT 1.0/3.0), EIBs, WQL, and BIRT reporting layouts.

Consulting Leadership Timeline

Senior Principal Integrations Consultant
Kognitiv Inc • 2026
Delivered custom Workday Extend apps, binary streaming rescues into AI Hubs, and DevCon 2026 AI Agent architectures for enterprise tech leaders.
Head of Innovation
Systics • 2025 – 2026
Led technical product architecture, developing proprietary Workday utilities, automated tooling, and analytical dashboards.
Senior Integration Architect
Syssero • 2021 – 2024
Designated escalation lead for "impossible" client requirements and creator of entry-level training programs, mentoring junior cohorts to Workday certifications while directing concurrent enterprise go-lives.
Senior Solutions Specialist
Deloitte Consulting, LLP • 2019 – 2020
Full-lifecycle Workday implementation and integration architecture for Fortune 500 accounts within Human Capital.
Computer Science Fundamentals

Independent Systems & Engineering Labs

Outside of enterprise ERP, I explore low-level systems programming: custom 2D canvas engines, real-time WebRTC networking, and cloud serverless pipelines.

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Executive Credentials

2-Page Technical Executive Resume

Clean, quantified, and recruiter-ready. Review my enterprise consulting history, certifications, and technical deliverables.

✓ Workday Extend Certified
✓ Workday Studio Certified
✓ Deloitte Consulting Alumni
✓ 1,000+ Integrations Delivered
✓ Automated Playwright Testing
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