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# Shyju Kumar Parakkadavu on Tal

## Headline

Senior Engineering Manager\(SDET\)at Akamai Technologies

## About

Engineering leader with 20\+ years in Quality Engineering, SDET leadership, and AI\-driven DevOps transformation, currently driving AI adoption at Akamai through Agentic AI, RAG, and LLM frameworks\. Proven track record of scaling automation to 99%, delivering 500\+ flawless releases, and leading high\-performing global teams to set new benchmarks in speed, quality, and reliability\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

deepseek

gemini

openai

githubcopilot

## Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager SDET at Akamai Technologies, Aug 2019 \- Present · 7 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Leader for QA strategy, automation, and DevTest governance across Akamai’s delivery products portfolio\. Pioneered AI\-powered QA frameworks, integrating Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, embeddings, and LLM validation\. Developed LLM evaluation pipelines for regression analysis, automated code generation, and DevOps checklist validation\. Built hallucination\-reduction workflows and explainability dashboards for AI governance\. Implemented fine\-tuning pipelines for QA\-specific LLM tasks\. Delivered multi\-million\-dollar projects \(Emergency Cert Rotation, CCM Commercial, CONUS, Defence Edge\)\. Mentored Dev, DevTest, and DevOps engineers to transition to AI skills\.

Senior Manager Quality Engineering at Akamai Technologies, Aug 2019 \- Present · 7 yrs 2 mos, Lead quality engineering, reliability, performance, automation and engineering\-productivity programmes across globally distributed delivery, edge and certificate\-management platforms\.

Quality Assurance Architect at HARMAN INTERNATIONAL \(SAMSUNG\), Mar 2018 \- Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos, Led quality engineering and automation architecture for Harman Professional AV cloud platforms, spanning embedded systems, AV DSP, Linux and Microsoft Azure\.

Principal Engineer ll at HARMAN International, Mar 2018 \- Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore

Technical System Analyst Staff at Juniper Networks, Sep 2010 \- Mar 2018 · 7 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore

Engineering System Engineer at Juniper Networks, Sep 2010 \- Mar 2018 · 7 yrs 7 mos, Designed scalable automation and release\-validation platforms for networking, cloud\-based software distribution and enterprise systems, including large\-scale continuous\-quality pipelines\.

Senior Specialist \-C2 at Dell International Services, Sep 2008 \- Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo, COE Project Lead

## Education

Master of Science, Business Analytics, University at Buffalo

EMBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

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