AI Engineering Leader · Full-Stack
Manoj Reddy Ponagandla. Software Engineer III at Charter Communications, leading AI-native practice and sharing open-source AI tooling.
years driving AI-native engineering
hackathons judged, at UCLA and Michigan
clones in 60 days, zero paid promotion
unique developers using the open-source tool
// Selected work
Enterprise · Platform
Owned the largest service in the org's Java 8 → 17 / Spring Boot 3.x migration and led the React 16 → 18 upgrade, including multilingual localization with React-i18next.
Enterprise · Streaming
Designed and enhanced Kafka-based event-driven architectures for real-time processing across distributed systems.
Open source · GPL v3
LangChain CLI that tailors resumes from a single source-of-truth profile, with validation thresholds against hallucinated content.
Enterprise · Orchestration
Co-led, as team SME, a Camunda BPMN proof of concept replacing thread-based orchestration. The approach reached production.
Enterprise · Agents
Orchestrator with Planner and Fixer sub-agents in Amazon Kiro, wired to Jira and GitLab and driven by a Trivy scanning loop.
Spec-driven Gmail cleanup with configurable filters, plus an n8n agent automating LinkedIn content generation and scheduling.
// Method
Step 01
Requirements written down before anything is built, as reusable Markdown for features and AI agents.
Step 02
Architecture settled in planning mode, so the implementation has a shape to follow.
Step 03
Built with Cursor, Claude Code and Kiro, with the spec as the source of truth.
Kiro lead. Recognized as the lead developer driving spec-first practice at Charter.
Org-wide adoption. GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q rollout.
Mentoring. Coaching engineers on AI-assisted workflows.
// Stack
// Credentials
University of Missouri–St. Louis
eCornell, Cornell University · 2024
Vulnerability management & threat detection
LA Hacks 2025 (UCLA) · MHacks 2025 (University of Michigan)
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