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I speak and write about production AI systems — grounded in real builds, research, and field experience.

Practical ideas on enterprise AI, agentic systems, evaluation, and production architecture — through talks, essays, and hands-on technical work.

100+ Architectures Piloted
6+ Industries
10+ Conferences & Workshops
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Kranthi Manchikanti
AWS event Chain of Verification Agent — poster presentation MLADS — Microsoft ML & Data Science Build conference Boston Debate League — judge Pacesetter award Oracle Built & Deployed Webster event AWS Raising the Bar 2023 Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — Burlington MA Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — session Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — audience Certification Human-in-the-Loop AI AI Innovator AWS event Chain of Verification Agent — poster presentation MLADS — Microsoft ML & Data Science Build conference Boston Debate League — judge Pacesetter award Oracle Built & Deployed Webster event AWS Raising the Bar 2023 Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — Burlington MA Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — session Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — audience Certification Human-in-the-Loop AI AI Innovator
Oracle Built & Deployed MLADS — Microsoft ML & Data Science Webster event Boston Debate League — judge Build conference AWS Raising the Bar 2023 Pacesetter award AWS event Poster presentation Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — audience Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — Burlington MA Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — session AI Innovator Human-in-the-Loop AI Certification Oracle Built & Deployed MLADS — Microsoft ML & Data Science Webster event Boston Debate League — judge Build conference AWS Raising the Bar 2023 Pacesetter award AWS event Poster presentation Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — audience Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — Burlington MA Microsoft Agentic Ecosystem Workshop — session AI Innovator Human-in-the-Loop AI Certification

Talks, workshops, and panels on AI architecture, agentic systems, evaluation, and enterprise AI deployment.

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Open-source contributions, industry standards work, and original research in AI architecture and agentic systems.

Open Source
AgentShift
Convert AI agents between frameworks. Define once, run anywhere. A universal converter that parses agent and skill definitions into a portable intermediate representation, then emits platform-specific configurations — no rework required when switching stacks.
OpenClaw Claude Code Copilot — soon Bedrock — soon Vertex AI — soon LangGraph — soon CrewAI — soon
pip install agentshift View on GitHub ↗
Open Source
PeerGraph
An open graph connecting AI researchers with product builders — visualizing how academic research translates into real-world applications. Maps 144+ researchers, 90+ builders, and 216 research-to-product connections across 50+ AI domains. Introduces the Applied Impact Index: a metric for real-world adoption beyond citation counts.
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Research
CogControl-Stakes: Metacognition
A behavioral benchmark for measuring LLM metacognitive monitoring and control — grounded in Nelson & Narens (1990). Wagering paradigm for calibration, asymmetric-payoff abstention under stakes. Submitted to Google DeepMind's AGI progress evaluation challenge. Evaluated on Gemini 2.5 Flash: systematic overconfidence (ECE 0.21) and catastrophic metacognitive control failure in specialist-required domains.
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Open Source
GPT-RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation architecture for enterprise AI — contributed to core design.
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Open Source
LLMOps Workshop
End-to-end LLM operations framework.
Open Source
SageMaker Clarify
AI fairness and explainability tooling for foundation model evaluation.
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Standards
NIST AI Agents Response
Practices for Automated Benchmark Evaluations of LLMs.
Open Source
RAGAs Framework
Deployed across multiple customers for AI RAG evaluations.
Built & Deployed: ML Spend Analytics on OCI
Video
Built & Deployed: ML Spend Analytics on OCI
Featured in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's "Built & Deployed" series — running ElectrifAi machine learning spend analytics on OCI.
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17 Posts

OpenClaw Isn't the Default: Why AI Coworkers Tied to Your Control Plane Usually Win

The most important difference between OpenClaw and its alternatives is not model quality — it is execution model. A selection framework for enterprise AI coworkers by control-plane fit.

Breaking Down the Five Domains of the Claude Certified Architect Exam

A domain-by-domain technical analysis of what the exam actually tests, what the architectural patterns look like in practice, and a 12-week study roadmap to get you from zero to 720.

Why the Claude Certified Architect Matters More Than You Think

Anthropic is the first frontier AI lab to launch a professional architect-level certification. What it signals about industry maturity, career strategy, and the future of AI architecture.

Everything You Need to Know About the Claude Certified Architect Exam

Complete guide to Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect — Foundations certification: exam format, five content domains, six scenarios, preparation strategy, and free resources.

Governed Agent Distribution Is Becoming the Enterprise Battleground

The next phase of enterprise AI adoption is not about model capability. It is about governed distribution: connectors, permissions, marketplaces, and admin controls that make agents deployable inside real enterprises.

AutoResearch, Harness Engineering, and the Next Layer of Agentic AI

The real innovation in AutoResearch isn't autonomy — it's the constraints. Bounded loops, narrow write surfaces, fixed evaluation budgets, and rollback discipline. The scaffolding pattern enterprises should study for production agentic AI.

Your API Is a Training Dataset: How Distillation Attacks Work and How to Stop Them

DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax ran 16M+ exchanges to steal Claude's capabilities. How distillation attacks work mechanically — and a layered guardrail checklist for API and model builders.

Fine-Tuning a 1.2B LLM for Pediatric Disaster Response on the Edge

How we fine-tuned LiquidAI's LFM2.5-1.2B on JumpSTART triage protocols using Unsloth + Hugging Face Jobs — and built a model that runs under 1GB RAM with zero internet connectivity on field devices.

The Enterprise AI Agent Stack: Orchestration, Memory, and Tool Use in Production

A structured look at the layers that make enterprise AI agents reliable: orchestration frameworks, short and long-term memory patterns, tool integration strategies, and the architectural decisions that separate demos from deployments.

SFT vs. DPO: Choosing the Right Fine-Tuning Strategy for Enterprise AI Applications

Supervised fine-tuning handles simple tasks well. But for complex reasoning and domain-specific applications, DPO after SFT consistently delivers meaningful accuracy gains. A practical decision framework for your fine-tuning strategy.

RLHF in Practice: Training Reward Models for Enterprise AI Applications

How reinforcement learning from human feedback translates from research papers to production systems. Breaking down reward model design, preference data collection, and the feedback loops that align models with real-world requirements.

HITL Frameworks: Why Human Oversight Is Non-Negotiable in Agentic AI Systems

As AI agents take on more autonomous decision-making, the design of human-in-the-loop checkpoints becomes the difference between trustworthy and dangerous systems. Exploring oversight patterns, escalation logic, and quality validation architectures.

Multi-Agent Systems: Designing Collaborative AI Pipelines That Scale

Single agents hit capability ceilings fast. Multi-agent architectures unlock parallelism, specialization, and fault tolerance — but introduce new coordination challenges. The patterns that work in production across high-stakes enterprise environments.

Compound AI Systems: Why Orchestrated Pipelines Outperform Monolithic Models

From banking automation to document intelligence — why production AI is evolving from single large models to orchestrated pipelines of specialized components. The architecture patterns driving this shift and when to apply them.

Reinforcement Learning at Enterprise Scale: Beyond Games and Into Production Systems

RL has moved well beyond Atari and board games. Exploring how reinforcement learning is being applied to real enterprise problems — from process optimization to autonomous decision systems — and the infrastructure required to make it work.

AI Guardrails in Production: Designing Safety Layers for Agentic and LLM Systems

A practical guide to implementing AI safety mechanisms that hold up under real-world conditions. Input validation, output filtering, behavioral constraints, and the monitoring architecture that catches failures before they become incidents.

Streamline Interstate Department of Motor Vehicles Collaboration with Private Blockchain

How private blockchain technology can improve cooperation and data sharing between state DMV agencies — published on the AWS Web3 blog.

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