đź‘‹ Hi, I'm Sai.

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At Intuit, I am driving the vision for Agent Foundry, an internal platform designed to bridge the gap between Design and Engineering. I focus on solving the “Chat UX vacuum” by building environments that allow teams to prototype ReAct agents and MCP servers, enabling “shift-left” vibe-checks and evaluation of agentic behaviors before a single line of production code is written.

I also work on Data Strategy, specifically solving the “Cold Start” problem for business agents. I architect pipelines that reverse-engineer transactional data into synthetic conversations, validating the performance of fine-tuned LLMs for complex reasoning tasks.

🛠️ Open Source & Distributed Systems

My roots are deep in large-scale systems. I am an ASF Member and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member for Apache Geode.

I spent years actively contributing to Geode to make it a Cloud-Native distributed cache, championing the creation of its Service Broker for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes CRDs. I believe that understanding the primitives of distributed consistency is a superpower when reasoning about non-deterministic AI systems.

đźš— Previous Work: Scale & Manufacturing

Prior to Fintech, I spent nearly five years at Rivian, helping to stabilize and scale manufacturing during critical production ramps.

  • OTA Infrastructure: Designed the secure, end-to-end firmware update solution from the ground up and built a team of 25 engineers to deliver it.
  • Manufacturing (MES): Redesigned the data architecture for the Manufacturing Execution System to ensure seamless synchronization across enterprise systems.
  • In-Cabin Experience: Initiated the architecture for Rivian’s in-cabin voice assistant to reduce driver reliance on touchscreens.

🧠 Competencies

  • GenAI & Agents: LLMs, ReAct Patterns, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Synthetic Data Pipelines.
  • Distributed Systems: High-throughput low-latency in-memory data grids, Cloud-Native Architecture.
  • Leadership: Technical Strategy, 0-to-1 Prototyping, Cross-Functional Team Leadership.
  • Domains: Fintech, Automotive (EVs), Manufacturing (MES), IoT, Cloud, Telecommunications.

đź“« Connect

I am always happy to chat about the “Agentic” future, distributed locks, or the best way to fine-tune a model.