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Redwood City, United States
Toptal member since June 17, 2026
Bio
Jithendran is a director of forward-deployed engineering for AI agents with 28 years of experience in customer-facing engineering and production AI systems. His expertise spans cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and large-scale delivery, with notable work at Mitchell International, Amazon, and Qualcomm. Jithendran led a 250-engineer SAFe transformation, reversing a Customer Trust Index from -80 to 80+ at Progressive.
Portfolio
Stealth GenAI Startup
AWS IoT, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), OpenID Connect (OIDC), Terraform...
Amazon, Product Assurance, Risk, and Safety
AWS IoT, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL, Redis, ECS
KETOS
Snowflake, Redis, Kafka, MQTT, Linux, C, C++
Experience
- C++ - 20 years
- PostgreSQL - 10 years
- AWS IoT - 8 years
- Amazon S3 (AWS S3) - 8 years
- Snowflake - 2 years
- CrewAI - 1 year
- LangGraph - 1 year
- AutoGen - 1 year
Work Experience
Head of Engineering and Principal Architect
2025 - PRESENT
Stealth GenAI Startup
- Served as a head of engineering and principal architect on an 80-microservice production agentic AI platform spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP with cross-cloud OIDC federation in Terraform.
- Orchestrated 184 agents and 191 specialty crews using LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and standalone agents with a 12-stage governed data pipeline and four-state policy engine (ALLOW, DENY, REDACT, NEEDS_REVIEW).
- Produced approximately 213,000 lines of Python and TypeScript over 11 months at approximately nine FTE-equivalent throughput; architecture authored by the human architect with AI-accelerated implementation reviewed before merge.
- Implemented Pydantic schema validation, mypy strict typing, idempotency on writes, schema migration safety, and coding agents in all parts of the SDLC as a daily operating mode.
- Managed Kubernetes orchestration with Helm, utilized Kafka and Redpanda streaming, deployed Apache Flink for 500ms exactly-once on RocksDB and S3, and maintained PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB hypertables, Redis, and MinIO;
- Configured GitHub Actions CI/CD with OIDC keyless across all three clouds and eval-gated CI with 50,000+ adversarial scenarios per release at 100% deflection.
Technologies: AWS IoT, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), OpenID Connect (OIDC), Terraform, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Python, TypeScript, Pydantic, Mypy, Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka, Redpanda, Apache Flink, RocksDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, Redis, MinIO, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions
Software Development Manager
2021 - 2024
Amazon, Product Assurance, Risk, and Safety
- Architected and operated Amazon's regulated compliance event platform at six-nines availability with 50+ million events per day across multi-region AWS, including Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS for PostgreSQL, Redis, ECS, API Gateway, and SQS/SNS.
- Delivered audit-ready architecture across the full seller lifecycle.
- Owned the data foundation feeding Amazon's AI/ML for selling partner onboarding automation (KYC, identity verification, and fraud-risk scoring) and predictive prevention of regulatory and safety risk across billions of marketplace listings.
- Integrated four-state policy gate with full audit lineage.
- Engaged in daily cross-functional executive partnership with AI, machine learning, legal, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and risk teams.
- Improved MTTR by approximately 20%, query latency by approximately 35%, delivery velocity by approximately 25%, and reduced storage cost by approximately 15%.
- Promoted two engineers to the senior level and reduced the onboarding ramp from four weeks to one week.
Technologies: AWS IoT, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL, Redis, ECS
Director of Software Engineering
2020 - 2021
KETOS
- Architected and led engineering for a regulatory water-quality IoT and AI/ML platform serving 50+ facilities, using DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, IoT Core, MQTT, embedded Linux, and LoRaWAN gateway.
- Worked hands-on with embedded C and C++ for MCU systems and robotic arm navigation.
- Grew the engineering team from four members to 12 in 12 months, tripling release frequency.
Technologies: Snowflake, Redis, Kafka, MQTT, Linux, C, C++
VP of Engineering and Enterprise Architect
2019 - 2020
Alpha Ori Technologies, SMARTShip
- Served as a full-stack enterprise architect for SMARTShip across over 200 vessels and more than 5,000 sensor points per vessel.
- Designed a Snowflake semantic data model and ETL across S3, DynamoDB, Snowflake, Redshift, Spark.
- Containerized microservices on AWS with Terraform.
- Developed a React and Angular front end and a Python and Java back end.
- Implemented machine learning for fuel consumption, achieving over 25% accuracy, and focusing on failure forecasting and anomaly detection.
Technologies: Snowflake, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, Redshift, Spark, AWS IoT, Terraform, React, Angular, Python, Java
Senior Director, Cloud Software Engineering
2016 - 2019
Mitchell International
- Owned the Auto Physical Damage (APD) organization and the Mitchell WorkCenter end-to-end claims management platform live in production at Progressive, Hartford, and Allstate.
- Guided early-stage APD-to-Guidewire ClaimCenter integration work with the Guidewire partner team during the platform-modernization arc.
- Deployed AI/ML Smart Solutions, including photo and video-based repair estimation, loss profiling and dispatch (predictive analytics), total loss valuation (automated appraisal plus comparable-vehicle matching), and estimate review automation.
- Led a 250-engineer four-layer SAFe transformation with 95 direct reports across multiple delivery pods serving different carrier customers. Established architecture standards, managed RFC and ADR governance, and coordinated release train activities.
- Improved on-time delivery from 70% to 95%, reduced release cadence from 12 weeks to two weeks, achieved defect escape to zero, reduced MTTR by 50%, and improved Customer Trust Index from -80 to 80+ with Progressive.
- Directed the modernization of a 20-year-old monolithic application using .NET Core and C#, transforming it into AWS ECS/EKS-based microservices with REST APIs in C# and Java, RDS PostgreSQL, an Angular SPA, and Azure AD integration.
- Managed SQL Server to RDS migration, achieving a 40% query speed gain, owned organization budget, including CAPEX/OPEX, and managed contractors and licensing.
Technologies: C#, REST APIs, Java, RDS PostgreSQL
Enterprise Architect
2015 - 2016
GE Healthcare and API Healthcare
- Unified four separate healthcare products into one hospital's workforce management system (WFM) on a hybrid Azure cloud.
- Implemented HL7 v2 and FHIR interoperability, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authentication, and RBAC controls to enforce PHI boundaries, following HIPAA-aligned and SOC 2 security patterns.
- Developed enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, .NET, AngularJS, and Azure.
Technologies: Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Java, .NET, AngularJS
Founder | Platform Architect | Director of Engineering
1997 - 2014
Qualcomm Inc., QIS Push-to-Talk Division
- Founded and architected the QIS push-to-talk division for 17 years, growing the team from three to over 40 engineers across San Diego and India.
- Delivered carrier-grade VoIP to over 40 million users at five-nines availability across Tier-1 carriers, including Sprint Nextel, resulting in a $500 million annual run-rate with zero breaches.
- Maintained direct Tier-1 carrier executive partnership for 17 years, shipping the first commercial QChat launch for Sprint Nextel, replacing Motorola iDEN.
- Provided hands-on C and C++ back-end development throughout division tenure, including TCP, IP, and UDP at carrier-network scale.
- Served as a MySQL database architect since 2000 and pioneered Hadoop, HBase, and Cassandra at Qualcomm in 2010, generating $50 million per year additional business through telemetry insights.
Technologies: VoIP, C, C++, MySQL DBA, Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra
Project History
XR/VR Immersive AI-assisted Clinical Hypnotherapy Platform
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Unlike traditional hypnotherapy, which relies on imagination with eyes closed, Jeeeth.ai uses an open-eye induction through sensory saturation. Your AI guide, Sophia, adapts her voice, pacing, and therapeutic approach in real time based on live biometric feedback. No two sessions are ever the same.
Unlike traditional hypnotherapy, which relies on imagination with eyes closed, Jeeeth.ai uses an open-eye induction through sensory saturation. Your AI guide, Sophia, adapts her voice, pacing, and therapeutic approach in real time based on live biometric feedback. No two sessions are ever the same.
Education
2025 - 2025
Postgraduate Degree in Applied Generative AI
Purdue University - Online
1987 - 1991
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Coimbatore Institute of Technology - Coimbatore, India
Certifications
SEPTEMBER 2018 - PRESENT
SAFe Program Consultant 4.0 (SPC)
Scaled Agile
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Pydantic, Mypy, React, REST APIs, Node.js, OpenAPI, SQLAlchemy, Asyncio
Tools
Amazon CloudWatch, Terraform, Helm, Grafana, MQTT, GitHub, AWS IAM
Languages
C++, SQL, Python, Snowflake, TypeScript, C, Java, C#, GraphQL, SAML
Frameworks
LangGraph, AutoGen, Spark, Angular, .NET, AngularJS, Hadoop, Spring Boot, gRPC, JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Paradigms
REST, Role-based Access Control (RBAC), ABAC, HL7 FHIR Standard, Agile Software Development
Platforms
AWS IoT, CrewAI, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Apache Flink, AWS Lambda, Linux, Docker, Cloud Run
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MySQL, RocksDB, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB, Redshift, HBase, Cassandra
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Kafka, Redpanda, TimescaleDB, MinIO, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, Amazon Kinesis, RDS PostgreSQL, ECS, VoIP, MySQL DBA, WebSockets, FastAPI, Step Functions, HIPAA, SOC 2, Agentic AI Systems, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Machine Learning, Multimodal GenAI, VR Platform, SaaS
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