About

I am a principal engineer and independent researcher working across production AI, distributed systems, applied research, and open-source software.

Goutam Adwant

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Professional Summary

Principal engineer and independent researcher

Principal Engineer at an S&P 500 company and independent researcher with 13+ years building distributed cloud-native systems.

My current focus is production generative AI and agent-based systems designed for security, observability, reliability, and the practical constraints of large enterprises.

Outside that role, I publish applied research, review technical manuscripts, maintain developer tools, and contribute focused fixes upstream. The portfolio links each item to its original publication, release, issue, or pull request.

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Background

Experience and education

Roles and education across software engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and applied AI.

  1. 2014 - 2016

    M.S. in Software Engineering

    San Jose State University

    Graduate foundation in software architecture, scalable systems, and disciplined engineering delivery.

    Software architectureDistributed systemsResearch

  2. 2015 - 2017

    Big Data and Platform Engineering

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Built data-intensive platform capabilities and production pipelines across enterprise engineering environments.

    JavaPythonData pipelinesPlatform

  3. 2017 - Present

    Principal Engineer

    S&P 500 company

    Builds GenAI and agentic solutions using AWS services, Python, LangGraph, MCP, LLMs, and in-house AI infrastructure. Designs scalable, secure infrastructure stacks for production AI platforms.

    AWS servicesLangGraphMCPPython

  4. Current

    Independent Researcher

    Independent work

    Bridges production AI architecture with LLM evaluation, RAG reliability, cloud-edge AI behavior, and public developer tooling.

    LLMsRAGAWSOpen source