Headline

Engineering Manager, AI @ Palo Alto Networks | Agentic AI, Data & Software Engineering| 12+ Years Data, Software & AI Engineering

About

I build systems that let AI agents make decisions — not just answer questions. Over the last 4 years at Palo Alto Networks, I've gone from building enterprise data pipelines to architecting the multi-agent orchestration platforms that sit on top of them. Today I lead a team of 4 AI/ML engineers building agent-to-agent (A2A) systems that translate natural language into SQL, coordinate specialized agents for enterprise telemetry analysis, and cut manual analyst effort by 30%. What I actually do: → Architect multi-agent systems (graph-based orchestration, A2A execution, context caching) → Build the data infrastructure underneath them (Spark, Beam, BigQuery, AWS/GCP) → Lead and grow engineering teams, from IC to manager Before AI/agents became the job, I spent 8+ years in data engineering — building ETL pipelines at Cisco, real-time systems at Cognizant, and trading infrastructure at JP Morgan. That foundation is why my AI systems don't fall over in production: I've spent a decade learning what breaks at scale. Always happy to connect with people working on agentic AI, LLM infrastructure, or data platforms — feel free to reach out.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

cursor

deepseek

gemini

hermes agent

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Work experience

Manager at Palo Alto Networks, Nov 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Leading a team of AI/ML engineers building agentic AI systems for enterprise security operations. - Architected a graph-based multi-agent orchestration framework, enabling autonomous agents to resolve complex analytical workflows with higher reasoning accuracy - Built Agent-to-Agent (A2A) execution systems coordinating specialized agents for SQL generation and data retrieval - Led AI-driven investigation frameworks that cut manual analyst effort by 30% through automated telemetry analysis

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, - Led architecture of a multi-agent AI copilot platform automating natural-language-to-SQL generation for IT operations - Cut system latency and inference costs by 40% through advanced context caching and prompt fine-tuning - Deployed source-agnostic data movement frameworks supporting heterogeneous enterprise workloads

Senior Data Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, Sep 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I am working as a Data Analyst and Data Engineer in the D&A org. My main focus is to provide scalable, resillient and quality solution for all data problems across different orgs in the team.

Senior Data Engineer at Mindtree, Mar 2022 - Sep 2022 · 7 mos, Designed BigQuery-based data lake solutions for client projects; hired, mentored, and led a data engineering team.

Associate Software Developer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nov 2021 - Mar 2022 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nov 2021 - Mar 2022 · 5 mos, Built enhancements and fixes for the Athena FX trading platform (Python, microservices); improved reliability of trading alert systems.

Software Engineer III at Cisco, Jan 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos, Chennai Area, India, I am working as Data Engineer in Cisco Systems and my current job role has allowed me to explore & gain expertise in AWS Data Engineering stack along with Apache Beam, Flink, Spark, Kafka technologies. I am working in a mixed role of data analyst & data engineer currently.

Data Engineer at Cisco, Jan 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos, Architected high-throughput batch pipelines (Beam, Spark, Flink) for large-scale JSON ingestion; automated AWS Glue/Lambda/Step Functions ETL workflows, reducing production bugs by 20%.

Senior Developer at Cognizant, Aug 2014 - Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Kolkata Area, India, I worked here as a Senior Developer whose primary focus was to build automation products to help and ease the day to day activity of a Production Mangement project. The projects I have worked was mainly related to automating manual data collection activities and storing those effectively and perform data visualization activities on those as and when required. I have also developed projects which involved Azure web services as well as Python.

Project Lead Developer at Cognizant, Aug 2014 - Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Built a Django-based translation portal and CSR systems using Spark Streaming and Kafka for real-time processing; automated data workflows with Java/Spring.

Education

Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineers careers

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, St. Thomas College of Engineering and Technology