Pavan Nanduri

About Pavan Nanduri

I’m a Senior Software Engineer (Staff-track) at AWS with 15+ years of experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, automation platforms, and AI-powered infrastructure.At AWS CloudFront, I lead initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, and intelligent automation across Amazon’s global edge network. My work sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and applied AI, where I design systems that reduce operational toil and enable self-healing platforms.Key impact:* Built a centralized, multi-tenant Agent Registry with automated bot authentication, enabling secure self-registration and lifecycle management of internal and external AI agents across Amazon teams.* Designed a CloudFront MCP server enabling AI-driven troubleshooting * Created an AI analytics platform adopted by 10+ teams * Improved hardware availability to 99%+ through automation * Driving architecture for AWS GovCloud & European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) Beyond execution, I actively mentor engineers, drive architectural reviews, and help shape long-term technical strategy across the organization.I’m passionate about building:* Distributed systems * Cloud infrastructure * AI-driven automation * Highly reliable platforms

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer (Staff-track) Cloudfront

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Oct 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I lead large-scale platform and AI infrastructure initiatives powering one of the world’s largest content delivery networks.Impact & Leadership• Built a centralized, multi-tenant Agent Registry with automated bot authentication, enabling secure self-registration and lifecycle management of internal and external AI agents across Amazon teams.* Architected and launched Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for CloudFront and AWS services (S3, WAF), enabling agentic workflows, context discovery, and AI-assisted operations• Built LLM-based agent platform for fleet diagnostics, configuration discovery, and automated orchestration – significantly reducing incident response time and manual operational toil• Designed zero-capacity-loss patching system enabling full-fleet patching without service impact• Built fleet health and observability platform using real-time telemetry pipelines for anomaly detection, lifecycle tracking, and predictive maintenance• Led security automation to detect and remediate open ports and configuration drift across thousands of hosts• Improved hardware availability to 99%+ through predictive automation and self-healing workflows• Driving architecture and compliance design for:> AWS GovCloud> European Sovereign Cloud (ESC)• Author long-term architecture design docs influencing org-wide technical direction• Mentor senior engineers, participate in hiring loops, and shape Staff-level engineering cultureKeywords: Distributed systems, large-scale infrastructure, LLM agents, reliability engineering, cloud security, automation, observability, platform engineering, system design

Education

• Anna University Chennai

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

  2005 — 2009

• Hyderabad Central University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2009 — 2010

Skills

• Apache
• Red Hat Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Mysql
• Unix
• Hp-UX
• Storage
• Netapp
• Puppet
• Operating Systems
• Hpux 11i
• Redhat
• Troubleshooting
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Oracle
• Sql
• Linux
• Technical Support
• Network Administration