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Bengaluru · Data, AI & Public Systems

Priyanshu
Gupta

Development Lead — Agentic AI & Data Platform, UIDAI

I build multi-agent systems and the data infrastructure underneath them — fraud investigation agents, streaming lakehouses, and the occasional Kubernetes cluster upgrade at 2am. Off the clock: Indian forts, dynasty timelines, and weekend cricket.

Priyanshu Gupta
Agent Architect
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01 · Profile
A quiet obsession with systems

I work at UIDAI, where my path has moved from building the data foundation to leading work around agentic AI. I have worked on a roughly 400 TB data platform, real-time streaming, lakehouse infrastructure, risk scoring and a population-scale feature store — systems where correctness, scale and auditability matter as much as raw engineering speed.

More recently, I have been building Prahari, a multi-agent investigation system designed to bring evidence, case history, internal tools and runbooks into one workflow. The goal is not "AI for the sake of AI"; it is to reduce repetitive analyst work while keeping decisions grounded, traceable and reviewable.

Outside work, I am increasingly interested in the space between technology and institutions: digital governance, public-sector consulting and eventually an MBA or public-policy path. I also travel, read history, collect stories about Indian forts and dynasties, and keep a few ideas alive on the side.

02 · Techniques
What I actually work with
Agentic AI
Multi-agent orchestration, planning, tool calling and synthesis with LangGraph and self-hosted LLMs.
Streaming & Lakehouse
Kafka → Flink → Iceberg → Trino, with Spark, Parquet, partitioning and query-performance engineering.
Data Platforms
Large-scale data infrastructure, ETL frameworks, ClickHouse, Airflow and observability for production workloads.
Risk & Fraud Systems
Operator risk scoring, feature stores, investigation workflows and population-scale evidence systems.
Systems Thinking
Designing for scale, freshness, auditability and cost — not just making the happy-path query work.
Public Technology
Interested in how engineering choices translate into governance, accountability and citizen-scale outcomes.
03 · Experience
The record so far
2026 — Present
Development Lead, Agentic AI
UIDAI, Bengaluru
Leading development of an agentic AI solution for fraud investigation, with specialised agents, a manager/synthesis layer and 30+ internal tools. The system is designed to unify evidence and case history and materially reduce manual investigation effort.
Jul 2023 — 2026
Data Platform Engineer / Development Lead
UIDAI, Bengaluru
Part of the core team behind a roughly 400 TB data platform and real-time data stack using Kafka, Flink, Spark, Iceberg and Trino. Built streaming pipelines, risk-scoring infrastructure, a population-scale feature store and data products supporting national-scale workloads.
Before UIDAI
Software Engineering
Earlier career
Started with application development and progressively moved toward distributed systems, data engineering and platform ownership.
04 · Reading Ledger
Papers I've stamped and filed
A running log of papers, with a one-line verdict instead of a star rating. Filter by tag — swap these entries for your real reading list.
Attention Is All You Need
Vaswani et al. · 2017
"Reread it slowly this year — worth doing once from first principles, not just citing."
foundations
RLM: Recursive Language Models via REPL-based Sub-calls
arXiv 2512.24601 · MIT CSAIL
"Interesting paradigm shift — recursive sub-LM calls over a REPL environment. Still deciding where this fits in production."
agentssystems
Comparative survey: OpenHands, Aider, OpenCode
Field notes · Agentic coding tools
"OpenCode's LSP-grounded approach is underrated. Aider still wins on trust for small diffs."
agents
The Last Queen
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · Historical fiction
"A reminder that historical narratives are also about perspective, memory and power."
history
Zero to a Sunday Game: notes on building Zito
Field notes · Co-founding a cricket community app
"[Placeholder] — swap in your real founder notes: what the WhatsApp group couldn't do, what the first 100 users taught you."
business
Digital Public Infrastructure: notes on India's identity stack
Field notes · Governance & large-scale systems
"[Placeholder] — swap in your real take: what shadow mode, audits, and oversight look like from inside a national identity system."
policy
Iceberg & Modern Lakehouse Design
Field notes · Data platform engineering
"The interesting part is rarely the table format itself; it is how storage, partitioning, compaction and query engines behave together."
systems
05 · Writing
Blog & write-ups
Link these out to your real posts — Substack, personal blog, or dev.to.
06 · Beyond Work
The things I keep returning to
History · Travel · Curiosity
Forts, dynasties & the long view

I like visiting old places and then going down the rabbit hole: who built them, why they mattered, how borders shifted, and what survives in the architecture. Recent trips and plans have included Orchha, Maharashtra's temple-and-fort circuit, South India and Europe.

01Recurring obsession
Indian history
∞Places to visit
NextEurope · old cities & castles
07 · Works
Things I've shipped
Prahari
Agentic AI system for fraud investigation: specialised agents, orchestration, 30+ tools, evidence and case-history integration, and workflows aimed at dramatically reducing repetitive analyst effort.
Internal / UIDAI →
Zito
A sports-management idea for amateur players and communities in Bengaluru — born from the simple problem of finding people to actually play with.
zitoplay.in →
UIDAI Data Platform
A national-scale data platform spanning streaming, lakehouse storage, analytics and risk infrastructure — built around Kafka, Flink, Spark, Iceberg, Trino and ClickHouse.
Work →
08 · Next Chapter
Where this is heading
The technical foundation is strong enough. The next question is how to use it.
MBA
Preparing for a top international MBA, with HEC Paris and INSEAD among the schools on the target list.
Public Policy
Exploring public-sector consulting, digital governance and the management side of large-scale technology.
Engineering Depth
Still obsessed with distributed systems, self-hosted LLMs, data infrastructure and making complex systems simpler to operate.
09 · Contact
開
Open