Software Engineer · India

Hi, I'm Praveen. I design scalable systems and build AI-native platforms, with a background in full-stack engineering.

I currently work on Zia Agents at Zoho, designing distributed backend architecture, agent orchestration primitives, and tooling that improves reliability and engineering velocity.

About

Software Engineer with a strong background in Backend & Fullstack engineering, focused on building reliable, scalable, and extensible solutions

Over 4+ years, I've played a key role in building enterprise grade platforms like Zia Agents and Catalyst QuickML. I enjoy designing robust services, building core components that power the application, and occasionally internal developer tooling that enhance the DX.

Experience

A snapshot of platform and product work across Zoho.

Zoho

Software Engineer

2024 - Present

Architecting and scaling core backend capabilities for Zia Agents and platform-level developer tooling.

  • Built the backbone for agent orchestration, shared state, context management, and multi-agent workflows.
  • Led the migration from synchronous flows to distributed event-driven architecture for fault tolerance and independent scaling.
  • Set the standard for designing structured, agent-friendly APIs to be consumed by clients, internal services, and end users.
  • Improved observability and reliability through better tracing, queue-aware processing, and resilient service patterns.
  • Managing the application's release & deployment cycle and successfully handled multiple migrations with zero downtime

Zoho Catalyst QuickML

Software Engineer

2022 - 2024

Delivered end-to-end MLOps features for no-code machine learning workflows.

  • Shipped key features like Data Visualization, ML Pipeline Templates, and Cross-DC Sync.
  • Implemented RAG Knowledge Base, LLM Serving and internal platform utilities to improve onboarding and DX.
  • Worked full-stack on various features end to end
  • Collaborated across product and engineering teams to launch scalable platform features.
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Projects

Systems and developer tools projects with product impact.

CORS Proxy Server

A minimal proxy server that can be used for fast prototyping when APIs need to be accessed from plain HTML pages

TypeScriptExpress

Cricket Dugout

Cricket score tracking application with tournaments, scoreboard, user roles (viewers, managers) and a custom OAuth based authentication

JavaJavascript FrameworkJSP
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Tech Stack

Technologies I use for backend systems, infrastructure, and tooling.

Languages

Scala · JavaScript · Java · SQL · Lua

Infrastructure

RabbitMQ · Redis · MySQL/PostgreSQL · Linux

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Blog

Notes from building distributed systems and AI agent platforms.

· 1 min read

Hello World!

My first blog post

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Contact

Open to collaboration on backend architecture, platform engineering, and AI tooling.

Reach out at apraveenkumar25701@gmail.com or connect on LinkedIn.