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description: "Meet Prashant T., Engineering Manager @ McKinsey & Company | Agentic engineering | AI engineering based in India. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and mistral."
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# Prashant T\. on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager @ McKinsey & Company \| Agentic engineering \| AI engineering

## About

17\+ years leading large\-scale software engineering and AI transformation across McKinsey, ZS, HSBC, and Citi — including organizations of 50\+ across globally distributed teams\. Leads AI\-powered transformation of how software is built and how guardrails is engineered, advancing the adoption of agentic AI workflows, tooling, and an AI\-led SDLC with measurable gains in productivity, quality, delivery speed, and cost \(\~50% productivity improvement, $275K\+ savings\)\. Deep quality\-engineering track record — release governance and guardrails automation that move products from unpredictable to predictable, high\-quality delivery at scale\. Proven track record of strategy and disciplined execution — roadmap planning, execution, governance, risk management, vendor engagement, and stakeholder management\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude

cursor

mistral

opencode

claudecode

githubcopilot

## Work experience

Technology Leader at Available, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs, Open to new adventures\!

Engineering Manager at McKinsey & Company, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs, • Defined and led the AI engineering transformation strategy — translating vision into execution by evolving the team from AI\-assisted coding to agentic engineering excellence with guardrails, on an AI\-led SDLC built on Spec\-Driven Development \(SDD\)\. • Delivered \~50% gain in engineering productivity through Cursor adoption, agentic engineering workflows, and purpose\-built teams\. • Led a 50\+ engineer organization delivering enterprise marketing and sales products for multiple global clients\. • Delivered 2 enterprise client go\-lives with full release governance — release readiness, progressive deployments, penetration and security testing\. • Achieved $275K\+ annual savings through environment rationalization, SDLC simplification, and FinOps cost governance \(20% SDLC time reduction\)\. • Partnered with senior stakeholders on hiring strategy and vendor\-to\-FTE transition, reshaping toward a leaner, FTE\-centric agentic engineering team\.

Engineering Manager at ZS, Dec 2021 \- Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Product development \(ZAIDYN Commercial\)\. Role \- Software Engineering and Technology Manager \. Product : ZAIDYN Data Hub \(ZDH\) / ZAIDYN Data Analytics\. Domain : Platform Engineering, Data Analytics\. \- Successfully delivered merger of 2 legacy products for organization’s platform offering with high quality \(zero issues reported in beta and first client upgrade\)\. \- Delivered 40\+ successful client onboarding and upgrades\. \- Streamlined critical engineering areas \(estimation, code review, unit test, integration test, build breakups, impact analysis\) resulting to predictable outcomes and stability\. \- Stabilized engineering work, defined metrics and delivered estimation accuracy, code quality, NFR based development and responded to dynamic business priorities\. \- Created release execution plan for Merger release and delivered on time with continuous governance\. Worked with PM, QA, PSR, Security teams spread cross locations\. \- Mitigated release quality risks by effective tracking and fixing bugs at scale\. Did effective engineering triaging and process improvements on bug lifecycle\. \- Responsible for people and talent management, goal creation, performance reviews for engineering team\.

Senior Consultant Specialist at HSBC, Oct 2018 \- Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos, India, Equity derivative, Post trade\. Developer, Data Architect, Manager\. Product : Sophis \- Received recognition from the group CEO for successfully delivering a critical and time\-bound regulatory audit point to on\-board Front Office supervisors on trade surveillance product\. \- Delivered Brexit program requirements for post trade function for trade, instrument and position reporting\. \- Successfully led and managed multiple process optimization & code tuning tasks across entire Sophis batch resulting in reduced daily compute time to deliver P2P feeds meeting SLA\. \- Enabled T\-1 reporting \(from T\-2\) for fraud detection and reconciliation downstream systems\. \- Successfully moved to DevOps model by making gradual progress to self\-sufficient pods over 1\.5 years\. \- Delivered CI/CD implementation of 150 processes using Jenkins for on demand automated deployments\. \- Identified process improvement opportunities & led efforts to meet organizational performance metrics of “Double\(releases\) Half\(incidents\)” of 850\+ \(a key OKR across GBM in 2020\)\. \- Managed team of 10\+\. Was part of core panel which prioritized BOW of 35 developers\.

Technology Lead at Citi, Nov 2015 \- Oct 2018 · 3 yrs, India, Risk technology\. Developer, Lead\. \- Delivered migration of legacy MCA\(RCSA\) application to new tech stack \(Java, Angular, Oracle\)\. \- Solved usability problem by providing search and advance filter functionality to provide exceptional data browsing capability to Senior Risk Managers \(100\+ independent data points and all possible combinations\)\. \- Successfully executed the design and development of in\-house workflow solutions, Reference Data Management \(RDM\), and enterprise\-level data integration\. \- Collaborated with designers on persona driven designs\. Expanded this collaboration to use cases and integrated mockup designs across application\. \- Accountable for code quality, data governance and data quality for 2 applications\. \- Led and managed 3 successive deliveries with zero functional defects for an application built from scratch to support Second Line of Defence Risk Managers\. \- Designed & delivered a configurable utility for global search and advance filter functionality to narrow down data browsing for users\. It was included in strategic guideline and standard for front end backend integration\. \- Saved 1\.5 years of projected development efforts for a team of 6 developers, by putting a successful recommendation to not to go ahead with migration of MCA to a OFSAA\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

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