AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo

Bio

Vinoth Govindarajan is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he works on core data infrastructure for large-scale AI systems and internal agent platforms. His work focuses on control planes, stateful architectures, scalability, low-latency systems, observability, and reliability patterns that make production system safe, resilient, and predictable. Vinoth brings an end-to-end perspective on modern data platforms and open table formats. Before OpenAI, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Apple, where he helped build next-generation data platforms using Apache Iceberg, Spark, Trino, and Flink. Earlier, at Uber, he developed incremental ETL frameworks and real-time data pipelines powered by Apache Hudi. Outside of his work, he is the co-author of Engineering Lakehouses with Open Table Formats book and writes The Agent Stack on substack platform, a systems-first publication about production AI agents and data infrastructure. Vinoth is also an open-source contributor and has presented at industry conferences and community events on lakehouse architecture, data systems, and agent harness.

Sessions

• Your Agent Didn’t Fail. Your Harness Did.Tuesday, June 30 · 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM · Track 1Claws & Personal Agents