From Black Box to Blueprint: AI-Assisted Legacy Reverse Engineering - Thiyagu Palanisamy

This talk addresses the challenges enterprises face with mission-critical legacy systems that are often poorly understood due to missing documentation and departed experts. The speaker presents a structured, AI-assisted reverse-engineering approach to transform these opaque systems into actionable blueprints. Key topics discussed include UI flow reconstruction, change data capture for data lineage, and binary archaeology, which collectively enable the extraction of functional blueprints, even in the absence of source code. By exploring the integration of human expertise and machine intelligence, this session equips attendees with a repeatable methodology for modernizing legacy systems and facilitating confident refactoring or cloud migration.