Chetan Karnam on Tal
Headline
Engineering Leadership | AI Quality Engineering | AI Strategist | Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Workflow Orchestration | AI Governance, Compliance & Security | AI Observability & Telemetry | Evals, LLM, MCP, RAG & Guardrails
About
I've spent the last 20 years helping teams build better software, deliver quality products, and solve complex engineering challenges. My career began in hands-on Quality Engineering, but over the years I've moved from writing automation scripts and leading QA teams to building global engineering organizations, managing large delivery portfolios, and working closely with Product, Engineering and business leaders to deliver software used by millions of customers and players around the world. Most recently, I led the Delivery and Quality Engineering organization across the UK and Malaysia. My role has been as much about people and strategy as technology. Building teams, hiring great engineers, mentoring future leaders, improving engineering practices, working with clients, making difficult release decisions and helping teams deliver with confidence. I've spent much of my career in live-service gaming, where quality doesn't stop on release day. Every update has the potential to affect player experience, business performance and customer trust. That environment taught me to think beyond defects and test cases. Quality is about understanding risk, using data to make better decisions and helping teams ship products they can be proud of. More recently I've been investing a lot of my own time learning about AI. Not because it's the latest trend, but because I genuinely believe it's changing how software will be designed, built and operated. I've been exploring Agentic AI, RAG architectures, evaluation frameworks and responsible AI through hands-on projects, trying to understand not just how these technologies work but where they genuinely create value. I enjoy bringing people together, simplifying complex problems, and creating an environment where teams can do their best work. Whether that's defining strategy, improving engineering practices, mentoring future leaders, or helping organizations adopt new technologies, I get the most satisfaction from seeing ideas turn into meaningful outcomes. Some of the areas I'm particularly passionate about include: • AI Strategy and Adoption • Technical Product & Engineering Leadership • Engineering Excellence & Quality Engineering • Agentic AI & Responsible AI • Engineering Operations & Delivery Governance • Platform Reliability & Release Management • Technical Program Management • Building and Mentoring High-Performing Teams I'm always interested in conversations around Engineering Leadership, AI, Product, Delivery and Quality. If we share similar interests, I'd be happy to connect.
AI stack
anthropic apis
antigravity
claude code
claude
gemini
geminicli
Work experience
QA & Engineering Manager at Double Eleven Limited, Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
QA Engineering Manager at GSN Games, Jan 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Senior Lead Test Engineer at Scientific Games, May 2018 - Jan 2019 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead Test Engineer 2 at Scientific Games, May 2017 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr, Bangalore
Lead Test Engineer 1 at Scientific Games, Sep 2015 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India
Senior Test Engineer at Verndale, Dec 2013 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead Technology Analyst / Verification Lead at Philips Healthcare SL, Sep 2013 - Dec 2013 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Education
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education
Bachelor's degree, Physics/Mathematics/Electronics, bangalore university
