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Athul Anil Kumar
Senior Software Engineer & AI Architect
Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience bridging product-centric design, scalable architecture, and Generative AI. Proven lead at Zoho in architecting AI-driven SDLC ecosystems—automating workflows from PRD generation to testing—while partnering with PMs and UI/Design teams to ensure a cohesive user experience and long-term vision alignment. Expert in Java, Python, and AI/ML, with a focus on modernizing legacy systems and mentoring teams to deliver high-impact Agentic AI and RAG-based solutions.
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Member of Technical Staff
Zoho Corporation (ServiceDesk Plus Cloud) · Jun 2019 - Present · Chennai, India
- Architected a comprehensive AI-driven SDLC ecosystem that automates the end-to-end development lifecycle—from PRD generation to automated test case creation—minimizing manual engineering effort.
- Engineered an AI-powered onboarding experience and automated generation of Templates, Business Rules, and Triggers, enabling a "zero-config" setup.
- Collaborated closely with PMs and Design teams to ensure technical architectures translated into cohesive, intuitive user experiences, aligning with the long-term product vision.
- Led contextual AI innovation by implementing Agentic AI integration, RAG-based code generation, LLM summaries, and translations, resulting in a 30% boost in customer satisfaction.
- Designed the integration architecture between distributed similarity-search services and our core platform, implementing an LLM-based augmentation layer.
- Modernized core infrastructure by refactoring legacy Struts/JSP into a modular, API-first architecture (Java 8, SQL, Kafka), boosting API performance by 20%.
- Orchestrated global-scale data migrations involving 1M+ production records with zero downtime.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science - Machine Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, USAGPA: 3.8/4.0
Graduated May 2025
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (Honors)
Sastra University · Thanjavur, IndiaCGPA: 8.08/10.0
Graduated Jun 2019
Skills
Languages
JavaPythonJavaScript (ES6)
AI / ML
Generative AIRAGAgentic AILangChainLangGraphPyTorch
Infrastructure
Apache KafkaMySQLPostgreSQLNode.js
Projects
Overcooked: RL
Multi-Agent Cooperative Reinforcement Learning using Deep Q-Learning and MADDPG.
Image Captioning
Analysed and compared CNN/RNN methods vs. Generative Transformers.
Topic Adaptive Sentiment
Predicted sentiment shifts using data mining and clustering (ECML-PKDD).