Koushik Das
Koushik Das

Engineering Leader | Agentic AI, LLMs, Cloud Platforms, DevOps & SRE

Open to offers · Member since 19 Oct 2026
Location
Hyderabad, India
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Hybrid / Full Time
Experience level
Lead

About

Professional summary

I am an engineering leader with more than 14 years of experience building and scaling globally distributed engineering organizations and production-scale AI, CPaaS, telecom, banking, logistics, and enterprise platforms.

I lead engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations for Agentic AI and Voice AI platforms. I combine executive-level roadmap ownership and stakeholder management with hands-on principal-engineer expertise in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and multi-agent AI systems.

I have led organizations of more than 30 engineers across engineering management, architecture, backend development, QA, DevOps, and SRE. I am passionate about hiring, mentoring, organizational design, performance development, and creating a culture of ownership, automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

My technical focus includes Generative AI, LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, conversational and voice AI, Kubernetes, Kafka, NATS, Java, Golang, Python, multi-cloud platforms, and observability. I have architected platforms handling millions of daily calls and billions of daily messaging transactions.

I drive reliable, secure, and cost-effective platform operations through SRE, DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, FinOps, capacity planning, and incident management. My work has improved availability, deployment efficiency, release quality, and cloud cost efficiency across mission-critical products.

I work closely with CEOs, CTOs, CXOs, product, finance, sales, security, and customer-success teams to turn business strategy into measurable engineering roadmaps, delivery milestones, and sustainable technology outcomes.

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Experience

Career history

Senior Engineering Manager / Engineering Leader Tanla Platforms Ltd

Head engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations for Agentic AI, Voice AI, and enterprise messaging platforms. Lead a globally distributed organization of more than 30 engineering managers, architects, backend engineers, DevOps/SRE engineers, and QA engineers across four locations.

Lead an Agentic AI Voice Platform handling more than 20 million calls daily at 5,000 CPS per region for over 100 enterprise customers. Own AI roadmap, platform architecture, SRE operations, cloud budget, FinOps, and executive reporting. Built multi-agent orchestration using LangGraph, Kafka, and NATS; standardized GitOps CI/CD, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry observability; and reduced annual cloud costs by ₹25M.

Application Architect / Engineering Manager FedEx Advanced Capability Centre

Led globally distributed teams delivering cloud-native logistics platforms processing over 15 million transactions per day across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Owned planning, architecture, engineering, QA, releases, production support, milestones, risks, and stakeholder communication.

Maintained 99.9% availability through SRE practices, resilience engineering, capacity planning, incident management, and operational reviews. Modernized more than 25 enterprise services into Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and Kubernetes microservices, reduced deployment time by 50%, and delivered AI/ML analytics and LLM-powered operational assistants.

Technical Lead / Solution Architect Netcracker Technology

Led hybrid-cloud architecture and engineering delivery for a telecom BSS transformation supporting T-Mobile Netherlands. Engaged customer executives and program stakeholders on scope, milestones, delivery risks, and architecture decisions.

Delivered telecom order-management and provisioning platforms integrated with Salesforce CRM and Ericsson OSS. Defined non-functional requirements, SLAs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and production runbooks, while reducing release cycles by 40% through Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native practices.

Senior Advisory Consultant / Tribe Architect IBM Client Innovation Centre

Led architecture and engineering delivery for DBS Singapore's digital banking platform supporting more than five million customers. Served as Tribe Architect across multiple agile squads and aligned technology strategy, delivery status, compliance, security, and product priorities with executive stakeholders.

Delivered over 30 successful production releases without critical outages using release governance, automated testing, rollback strategies, and change management. Built cloud-native banking platforms with Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, IBM Cloud, AWS, and Azure, while improving engineering productivity through reusable frameworks and DevOps automation.

Technical Lead / Engineering Manager Cognizant Technology Solutions

Built and led globally distributed engineering organizations of more than 30 engineers across multiple countries. Owned hiring, onboarding, team structure, career development, technical leadership, delivery planning, client escalations, forecasting, and resourcing for concurrent client programs.

Improved engineering quality through architecture governance, standards, code review practices, DevOps adoption, automated testing, and containerization. Reduced production incidents by 45% through observability and SLA-driven incident processes, and received The Titans Award for engineering leadership, delivery excellence, and client success.

Information Technology Analyst Tata Consultancy Services

Built enterprise banking credit analytics workstations and telecom mediation platforms using Java, Oracle, REST APIs, and distributed systems. Delivered revenue-assurance, mediation, and enterprise-reporting solutions that improved reporting efficiency by 90%.

Improved Java and Oracle application performance through architecture and database optimization. Led module-level teams through sprint planning, code reviews, and mentoring, while providing L3 production support, root-cause analysis, SLA-bound incident resolution, runbooks, and automation scripts.

Education

Learning history

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV)

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering.

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