Venkat K.

About Venkat K.

15 years building distributed systems and data platforms. Currently focused on Agentic AI at Microsoft — designing multi-agent systems, autonomous workflows, and the observability and governance layer that makes them safe to run in production.Before this, I spent 6 years at CARIAD (Volkswagen Group) architecting the cloud and data platform that powers connected experiences for 10M+ vehicles across VW, Audi, Porsche, Škoda, and SEAT. Real-time vehicle data pipelines, Data Lakehouse on Databricks and Delta Lake, 99.99% uptime across multi-cloud Kubernetes environments, and $5M+ in annual cloud savings from a platform-wide FinOps and observability overhaul. Also led the first GenAI initiatives at CARIAD — built the business case, delivered the first working systems, and grew the team around it — covering RAG pipelines, multilingual voice assistants, LLM infrastructure on vLLM and Azure AI Foundry, and multi-agent systems using LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI.I work across the full stack of platform engineering: Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, Databricks, Azure, AWS, OpenTelemetry, GitOps, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code — and increasingly across the AI layer: RAG, AI Agents, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, LLMOps, private inference, evaluation pipelines, and Azure OpenAI.At CARIAD I led a team of 10 engineers, defined architectural standards across the org, and drove platform adoption across product teams — responsibilities that sit at the core of technical leadership and engineering management. I initiated GenAI adoption from zero — no mandate, no budget at first — and turned it into a strategic program. At Microsoft I\'m doing the same for agentic systems: mentoring engineers on agent design patterns, partnering with product and business stakeholders, and building the practices that make AI adoption stick.Open to Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, and Director of Engineering roles — distributed systems, data platforms, AI/ML platform engineering, or where all three intersect. Let\'s talk.

Experience

1. Lead Ai Engineer

   Microsoft

   Jan 2026 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Contributing to the architecture and hands-on development of the Agentic AI layer — designing data agents, operational agents, and autonomous multi-agent workflows on top of existing enterprise systems, integrating with Azure Synapse, SQL, Azure Monitor, Azure AI Vector Search, Microsoft Teams, and Email via Microsoft Agent Framework, Copilot Studio, and MCP- Designed and implemented agent observability and governance mechanisms — covering end-to-end tracing of agent reasoning, LLM calls, and tool execution via Application Insights and Log Analytics, with SSO, RBAC, PII detection and redaction, and SQL injection prevention, and SOX compliance controls for safe and auditable operation in production- Building continuous evaluation pipelines to monitor agent accuracy, behavioral drift, and regressions across model, prompt, and configuration changes — enabling controlled iteration and production readiness without breaking running systems- Establishing multi-environment deployment patterns, agent and prompt versioning, and rollback strategies — implementing CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning and continuous delivery of agentic systems- Acting as senior technical contributor and advisor — mentoring engineers on agent design patterns and reliability practices, leveraging GitHub Copilot, Claude models, and Azure AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering velocity, and partnering with product and business stakeholders to drive AI adoption across large user populations.

Education

• JNTU

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

  2005 — 2009

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Postgraduate Degree, Artificial Intelligence

Skills

• .net
• C# 4.0
• Asp.net Mvc
• Sharepoint
• Javascript
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Jquery
• Css
• Html
• Jquery Mobile
• Sharepoint Designer
• Sharepoint De
• Asp.net
• Sql
• Rest
• Web Services
• Xml
• Java
• Software Development
• Angularjs
• Bootstrap
• Agile Methodologies
• Wordpress
• Office 365
• Vs Code
• Website Hosting
• Powershell
• Php
• Web Development
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Requirements Analysis
• Solution Architecture
• Ajax
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• .net Framework
• C#