# Praveen Kumar A

> Software Engineer at Zoho building scalable backend systems, AI orchestration platforms, and developer tooling.

Currently: Software Engineer - Zia Agents at Zoho (Jul 2025 - Present). Leading backend engineering and owning the architecture of core components of Zia Agents, building distributed execution infrastructure for production AI workloads.

## Pages

- [About](https://praveen-kumar.dev/about): Background, engineering philosophy, and principles
- [Experience](https://praveen-kumar.dev/experience): Roles and responsibilities across Zoho
- [Blog](https://praveen-kumar.dev/blog): All blog posts
- [Tech Stack](https://praveen-kumar.dev/tech-stack): Languages, frameworks, infrastructure, and tools
- [Projects](https://praveen-kumar.dev/projects): Side projects and developer tools
- [Contact](https://praveen-kumar.dev/contact): Email, LinkedIn, and GitHub
- [Playground](https://praveen-kumar.dev/playground): Interactive simulation comparing a synchronous chain with an event-driven pipeline under failures and traffic spikes
- [Resume](https://praveen-kumar.dev/resume): Printable resume ([JSON Resume](https://praveen-kumar.dev/resume.json))

## Blog posts

- [CorrelationId: The Missing Piece in debugging Distributed Systems](https://praveen-kumar.dev/blog/correlation-id-the-missing-piece-in-distributed-systems.md): How to make life easier when dealing with distributed workflows
- [Why Every RabbitMQ Message Should Have a messageId](https://praveen-kumar.dev/blog/why-every-rmq-message-must-have-a-messageid.md): A small practice that made debugging distributed systems much easier.
- [Hello World!](https://praveen-kumar.dev/blog/hello-world.md): My first blog post

## For agents

- MCP server (Streamable HTTP): https://praveen-kumar.dev/api/mcp, setup guide at https://praveen-kumar.dev/mcp
- Resume as JSON: https://praveen-kumar.dev/resume.json

## Contact

- Email: apraveenkumar25701@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveen-kumar-a-45a00a16b/
- GitHub: https://github.com/praveenK257