# Pratyush Mulpuru **Senior Software Engineer** — Apex, NC, United States > Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years building cloud-native distributed systems and backend platforms. Recently focused on GenAI and agentic AI applications using AWS Bedrock. Career Archetype: **All-Terrain Artisan** (HB-MX) — One of the first All-Terrain Artisans on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pratyush-mulpuru - GitHub: https://github.com/pratyushmk ## Experience ### Independent Contractor, Self Employed (2025-02 – present) Apex, NC · Architected Python-based backend services and REST APIs for event registration, attendee management, and workflow automation. Built ReactJS administrative dashboards and user-facing interfaces. Automated deployments using Ansible and implemented CI/CD practices with Git. ### Senior Software Engineer, Itron, Inc. (2023-05 – 2024-10) Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Automated application and platform deployments using Jenkins and Ansible, reducing release cycles by 50%. Built monitoring infrastructure with Nagios and Splunk (15+ dashboards), improving issue detection by 60% and reducing incident response time by 80%. Designed Django application for monitoring configuration across on-premises environments. Implemented Kubernetes deployments with Helm and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD. ### Senior Software & Automation Developer, NetApp Inc (2020-01 – 2023-05) Morrisville, NC, United States · Re-architected CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment failures by 90% and cutting release cycles from 8 hours to 30 minutes. Designed asynchronous Python microservices using FastAPI to orchestrate VMware/OpenStack workflows. Architected Kubernetes/OpenShift microservices for horizontal scalability. Designed serverless AWS workflows for multi-step VM lifecycle orchestration. Implemented Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and developed data pipelines with Airflow and PySpark for multi-cloud billing analytics. ### Senior Software Engineer, Cisco Systems (2011-09 – 2019-02) Morrisville, NC, United States · Designed and implemented Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs for provisioning users and devices in Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unity Connection. Created extensible monitoring framework using Spring Actuator and AOP exposing 25+ metrics across 20+ microservices. Increased call handling capacity 3x on Cisco Expressway by enhancing C++ routing logic. Developed Python microservices for SIP log parsing and anomaly detection with ELK integration. Implemented JMS messaging services with ActiveMQ for reliable inter-service communication. ### Software Engineer, Cisco (2011-09 – 2013-02) Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area · Hosted Collaboration Solution Fulfillment (HCS-F) ### Application Systems Engineer, Wells Fargo (2010-06 – 2011-08) Charlotte Metro · Developed web UI features using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, JSP, and AJAX-based pagination. Created database triggers and stored procedures to support auditing and reporting processes. ### Application Developer, Verizon (2010-04 – 2010-05) Silver Spring, Maryland Area ### Java Developer, LiveItSolutions (2008-03 – 2009-12) ## Education ### Masters in Computer Science, Governors State University (2005-09 – 2007-06) ### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (2002-09 – 2006-06) ## Projects ### Python/PySpark Data and RAG Platform Data pipelines with vector search and LLM-based question answering · Built a comprehensive platform integrating data pipelines, vector search, and LLM-based question answering capabilities. Combines PySpark for data processing with FastAPI for API services and leverages retrieval-augmented generation for intelligent responses. ### AI-Powered Event Registration Platform Conversational AI interface for event discovery and registration workflows · Designing an AI-powered event registration experience enabling users to interact conversationally with the platform. Building the backend using Python and AWS Bedrock/AgentCore with MCP-based tool interactions connecting the LLM to event, attendee, and registration APIs. Implementing agentic AI patterns, authentication/authorization, guardrails, observability, and evaluation for production-ready AI workflows. ## Skills Agent to Agent Communication, Generative AI, Agentic AI Development, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Amazon Bedrock, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Security Hub, AI Evaluation, AWS Service Control Policies, AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM), AI Observability, OpenTelemetry, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, AI Governance, AI Agent Security, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Authorization, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Policy, Cloud Security, Amazon Cognito, Cedar Policy, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Prompt Engineering, AI Tools Adoption, AI Ethics, Applied AI, GitHub Copilot, Multi-agent Systems, Langfuse, Amazon EKS, Azure Cloud Governance, Microsoft Azure, Azure Cost Management, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Cloud Computing, Amazon SQS, Strands Agents, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Pandas, Poetry, FastAPI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Models (LLM), FAISS, LocalStack, Amazon S3, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), Python, Django, SQL, Bash, SQLAlchemy, Pytest, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS API Gateway, AWS DynamoDB, AWS SNS, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Git, Splunk, Nagios, MySQL, Data Engineering, Security, Network Protocols, Java, Spring Boot, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES6, ReactJS, VS Code, PyCharm, AWS Bedrock, Claude ## Credentials - **AI Governance on AWS** — BeSA Cloud Academy (issued 2026-09) - **Agentic AI - POC to Production on AWS** — BeSA Cloud Academy (issued 2026-09) - **Agentic AI Evaluation and Observability** — BeSA Cloud Academy (issued 2026-09) - **Building Agentic AI on Amazon EKS** — DataExpert.io (issued 2026-09) - **Building Agentic AI with AWS Serverless** — DataExpert.io (issued 2026-09) - **Design Authentication, Authorization and Logging** — DataExpert.io (issued 2026-09) - **Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals** — Microsoft (issued 2026-09) - **Anatomy of an AI Agent** — DataExpert.io (issued 2026-08) - **AI Skills Fest 2026** — Microsoft (issued 2026-06) --- Source: https://saywise.com/member4159 (last modified 2026-10-06T16:05:17.171Z)