Director of Engineering · Pune, India

Pranav Kulkarni

Engineering leader writing on AI systems, autonomous agents, and scaling teams that ship.

Founding Member and Director of Engineering at Velotio. Previously at ThoughtWorks, Replay Gaming, and IISER Pune. I architect backend and AI systems — distributed architectures, high-performance computing, and data engineering — and I've helped ship products now generating over $1B USD in recurring revenue.

I've worked with engineering teams at Netflix, Coupa, Snowflake, Kognitos, MaxIQ, Syngenta, NetApp, and many others. The essays below are what I've learned building this in production — not theory.

Featured

14 min read The Enterprise AI Bottleneck Is Not the Model Why most enterprise AI pilots stall — and the integration, trust, and governance work that actually unlocks value. 9 min read Multi-Agent Orchestration Patterns That Survived Production The coordination patterns that held up when we let multiple agents work together — and the ones that broke. 11 min read AI Safety Is Not a Checkbox Building guardrails that actually hold when an agent has write access to real systems. 9 min read Small Teams, Big Models Why 15 engineers now ship like 200 — and what changes about how you run a team.

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Pune, India