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Hyderabad, India · Co-founder, Agni AI Labs

Kumara Vathadi

Senior AI Engineer | Agentic AI Architect

Enterprise-grade omnichannel multi-agent AI, built end to end.

  • 6 years in AI/ML
  • Architect across banking, real estate, retail & maritime
  • IIT Madras M.Tech

About

Building AI products from architecture to production

I'm a Senior AI Engineer with 6 years of experience, working as an architect across multiple projects and building products end to end — from requirements and architecture through build and Azure/Kubernetes deployment to observability and production rollout. I specialise in enterprise-grade, omnichannel, multi-agent AI for real estate, banking, retail and maritime, reaching users on WhatsApp, web, mobile app, Facebook and Instagram over chat, voice and email. I also bring quantitative ML depth in Bayesian price elasticity and brand equity for CPG. As co-founder of Agni AI Labs, I'm building the Defragment AI platform end to end for restricted domains.

What I build

Four things I do well

Omnichannel multi-agent platforms

Supervisor, Planner and Worker agents on LangGraph, reaching users on WhatsApp, web, mobile and social over chat, voice and email.

RAG & Text2SQL agents

Hybrid retrieval with BM25 and cross-encoder reranking on Azure AI Search, plus Text2SQL agents over enterprise data via scalable MCP.

LLM observability & guardrails

Every node traced with Langfuse, Arize AX and Phoenix for token cost, latency and debugging; RBAC, content safety and audit trails built in.

Bayesian price-elasticity & brand-equity ML

Hierarchical Bayesian models for CPG pricing, promotion and market mix, deployed on the cloud with automated retraining.

Selected work

Projects

Real estate · Dubai

COMPASS AI — Omnichannel Multi-Agent Platform

Problem One conversational platform for real-estate sales operations — broker and agency registration, commission distribution, bookings, EOI, support tickets and roadshow approvals — with property search and full tracking for BD, HOD and Leadership.

  • Omnichannel solution on WhatsApp and a mobile app serving external personas (agencies, brokers) and internal personas (BD, HOD, Leadership).
  • Layered architecture: orchestration with Redis/PostgreSQL memory, guardrails and RBAC → Query Analyzer, Planner and Response Synthesizer supervisor agents → business and reasoning agents over an A2A service bus.
  • Proactive, event-driven agents and a provider-agnostic LLM layer (LangChain / LiteLLM), with every LangGraph node traced in Arize AX.
  • LangGraph
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Azure Service Bus
  • Databricks
  • Azure AI Search
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Content Safety
  • AKS
  • APIM
  • WhatsApp Cloud API

Banking · Malaysia

Omnichannel Agentic AI Platform

Problem One consistent, compliant customer experience across phone, web chat, email and social channels for banking queries, authentication and fraud-related requests.

  • Stateful LangGraph graph with confidence gating and dynamic routing across Greeting, Authentication, Banking, Fraud Detection and RAG agents under a Supervisor, with a compliance layer and full audit logging.
  • Real-time voice with tool calling on Azure AI Voice Live and Azure Communication Services telephony, with automatic language detection (English, Malay, Mandarin).
  • Hybrid BM25 + cross-encoder RAG on Azure AI Search with multilingual prompt templates, served from an async FastAPI backend on AKS.
  • LangGraph
  • Azure AI Voice Live
  • Azure AI Search
  • Azure Communication Services
  • FastAPI
  • WebSockets
  • Jinja2
  • AKS

Global CPG · USA

Real-Time Analytical Insights Chatbot

Problem Lets analytics teams query enterprise sales, panel and ratings data conversationally instead of writing SQL or waiting for reports.

  • Collaborative multi-agent platform of SQL, Insights, Chart and Planner agents, with A2A context passing for multi-step, cross-KPI reasoning.
  • Scalable MCP for stateless connectivity to Azure ADLS and PostgreSQL, deployed on AKS and evaluated with Langfuse.
  • LangGraph
  • Scalable MCP
  • A2A
  • Azure ADLS
  • PostgreSQL
  • AKS
  • Langfuse

Maritime · Singapore

Maritime Compliance & Communication AI Platform

Problem Prioritising high-volume fleet email and tracking regulatory compliance (CII, FuelEU) across a global fleet.

  • Email management on Microsoft Graph API that prioritises, categorises and summarises maritime communications, with AI-drafted responses from specialised agents.
  • Real-time CII and FuelEU compliance modules computing annual status, risk probabilities and forecasts, with scenario-simulation agents for recommendations.
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • AKS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Simulation AI
  • Specialised Agents

Global CPG · USA

Price Elasticity & Promotion Optimization

Problem Quantify price sensitivity and coupon effectiveness to guide pricing, promotion and spend-allocation decisions.

  • Hierarchical Bayesian and Lasso elasticity models for 7,000+ products across 40+ retailers and 2 e-commerce platforms.
  • Parallelised modelling with Spark UDFs on Databricks, cutting modelling time by 80%.
  • Price, promotion and new-product launch optimisation frameworks deployed in an AKS-hosted planning tool.
  • Hierarchical Bayesian
  • Lasso / Ridge
  • Log-Log Regression
  • Databricks
  • Spark UDFs
  • Azure ADF
  • AKS

Global CPG · USA

Brand Equity & Market Mix Modelling

Problem Estimate brand equity and its long-term effect on sales and advertising returns.

  • Bronze → Silver → Gold → Harmonized pipeline combining social, survey and retail POS data, with brand equity estimated via Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
  • Brand equity integrated into Market Mix Modelling to quantify long-term advertising effects.
  • Near real-time pricing dashboards (3-hour refresh) on Databricks and Azure Data Factory.
  • CFA
  • Bayesian Modelling
  • Random Forest
  • Databricks
  • Azure ADF
  • Mixed-Effects Models

Tech stack

Tools I work with

Agentic AI

  • LangGraph
  • Scalable MCP
  • A2A (Azure Service Bus)
  • Text2SQL
  • RAG (hybrid, BM25, reranking)
  • pgvector
  • Jinja2 prompts
  • Guardrails
  • Tool calling
  • LangChain
  • LiteLLM
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Azure OpenAI

LLM observability

  • Langfuse
  • Arize AX
  • Arize Phoenix
  • OpenInference
  • OpenTelemetry

Azure & cloud

  • AKS
  • Azure Front Door
  • WAF
  • APIM
  • AI Search
  • AI Foundry
  • Voice Live
  • Content Safety
  • Service Bus
  • Databricks
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • ADLS
  • Data Factory
  • Docker
  • Azure DevOps CI/CD
  • MLflow

Channels

  • WhatsApp Cloud API
  • Facebook Messenger
  • Instagram
  • Web chat
  • Mobile app
  • Voice
  • Email
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • REST
  • WebSockets
  • Multilingual NLP (English / Malay / Mandarin / Manglish)

ML & analytics

  • Bayesian & Hierarchical Bayesian Regression
  • Lasso / Ridge
  • Random Forest
  • Price Elasticity
  • Market Mix Modelling
  • CFA
  • Mixed-Effects Models
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Conjoint Analysis
  • Deep Learning (CNN, TensorFlow)

Languages

  • Python (FastAPI, asyncio, SQLAlchemy)
  • SQL
  • PySpark
  • R

Experience

Experience & education

Experience

  1. Senior AI ML Engineer — Tiger Analytics

    Oct 2020 – Present · Hyderabad, India

    Architect and deliver omnichannel multi-agent AI platforms for enterprise clients in real estate, banking, retail and maritime end to end, and lead cross-functional teams across concurrent projects.

  2. Co-founder — Agni AI Labs

    Building the Defragment AI platform end to end for restricted domains.

Education

  1. M.Tech, Computational Mechanics — IIT Madras

    2018 – 2020 · CGPA 8.99/10

  2. B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering — RGUKT Nuzvid

    2013 – 2017 · CGPA 8.92/10

Agni AI Labs

Defragment AI

As co-founder of Agni AI Labs, I'm building Defragment AI — a scalable, metadata-driven, multi-domain, multi-agent AI platform that serves restricted domains end to end and extends domain by domain without rebuilding the core.

Visit agniailabs.in

Off the clock

Weekend Vibes with Varma

Outside work I create content on travel experiences and creative storytelling on YouTube and Instagram.

Contact

Let's talk

Open to conversations about agentic AI architecture, multi-agent platforms and end-to-end AI product builds.

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