Prashant Bhapkar

About Prashant Bhapkar

Most engineering teams waste 60% of their time on work AI can already handle. I build the…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   KPIT

   Oct 2023 — Present · Pune, IN

   1) Leadership & AIOps Automation:→ Led end-to-end AIOps initiatives using Gen-AI (RAG, LangChain) to classify and auto-heal failed CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins), achieving 99% accuracy in issue categorization and automated recovery from infrastructure failures.→ Automated 80% of manual DevOps tasks by integrating Jira and GitLab for seamless ticketing, reporting, and engineering workflow management.2) AI-Infusion SDLC Automation→ Architected and drove development of an AI-powered system that automates the full software delivery lifecycle (SDLC).→ Automatically generates user stories/features from Jira requirements.→ Writes/debugs code, applies pre-commit/static checks, updates Jira progress.→ Generates unit tests, triggers deployment and validation agents, and pushes releases to dev/test.→ Developed a Jira-based roadmap platform for rapid, traceable, and high-quality software delivery with minimal manual intervention.3) Central Project Dashboard→ Designed and maintained a centralized dashboard to monitor: Deployments (Argo Rollouts), → Microservice performance, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Test Case Analytics, Health Checks, and Statistics across all modules.4) Team Productivity & Internal AutomationBuilt and led internal tool development including:→ Daily Team Reports Agent: Auto-fetches and summarizes real-time Jira and Git data for daily sprint reports, highlighting progress, next steps, and blockers for each team/member - reducing daily sync-up time→ GitLab Merge Request AI Bot: Delivers instant, AI-driven code reviews (on /ai-bot), combining LLM analysis with static rules for actionable, file-specific feedback and faster, higher quality reviews.→ LLM-powered auto-documentation: Automatically generates Markdown docs, deploys via CI/CD to MkDocs, and hosts on Kubernetes, cutting manual documentation by 95%.→ Pre-commit compliance checks: Enforced Katapult and code quality standards using tools like Cloc, CPD, PMD, Lizard, etc.

Education

• SPVN Shardanagar, Baramati, Pune

  Secondary education

  2006 — 2015

• D. Y. Patil College of Engineering ( DYPCOE ) , Akurdi, Pune

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology

• Vidya Pratishthans Arts, Commerce & Science College, Baramati,

  Higher Secondary Education, Science

  2015 — 2017

• COEP Technological University

  Master of Technology - MTech, Information Security