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Manish
Mitra

AI Leadership Principal Engineer · CBA

Building production agentic AI systems with MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, LlamaIndex, Google ADK, and Pydantic AI. Leading Gen AI innovation at Commonwealth Bank.

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CEO Excellence Award

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Gen AI · CBA

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4 → 80 team growth

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DORA Specialist

§ 01 / about

Who.am.i

read time ~ 2min ↓

Currently Principal Engineer at Commonwealth Bank. Built the first GENAI project in the bank on RACO for adverse media screening — won CEO Excellence Awards.

Deep expertise in Agentic AI frameworks including Pydantic AI, Google ADK, LangGraph, MCP, ML OPS, and A2A. Building multi-modal agentic systems combining vision, speech, and text modalities. Built reusable expert AI systems, dialogue agent templates, and AI agents for E2E dispute journey winning Excellence Awards.

Previously led 120 people at ANZ building API modernization platform, served as Principal Engineer at Wesfarmers for OnePass, and built AWS Business Banking Engineering Labs at NAB.

Passionate about engineering excellence, team development, and AI innovation. Strong contributor to AI Powered Engineering (AIPE) projects with campus relationships at Monash / Melbourne University.

Agentic AI Leadership

Built first GENAI project in bank winning CEO Excellence Awards — reusable AI agents and dialogue templates.

Team Growth

Grew team from 4 to 80 across Melbourne / Sydney / India — led 120 people at ANZ.

Innovation & Awards

Won Excellence Awards for E2E dispute journey AI agents — DORA specialist.

Technical Expertise

Pydantic AI, Google ADK, MCP, MLOps, LangGraph — AWS Certified (SA, Developer, AI).

§ 02 / skills

Tech.stack

7 categories ↓

Agentic AI & Frameworks

Model Context Protocol (MCP)OpenAI Agents SDKGoogle ADKPydantic AILangGraphLlamaIndexAutoGenA2A

LLM & GenAI

OpenAI SDKGPT-4 / GPT-4oAnthropic Claude SDKPortkeyLiteLLMPrompt EngineeringRAG SystemsVector DatabasesEmbeddingsMachine LearningLLMOps

AI Evaluation & Observability

LangfuseHoneyHiveAgent EvaluationLLM TracingPrompt OptimizationCost AnalyticsPerformance MonitoringA/B Testing (AI)Model Benchmarking

Programming & APIs

Python (FastAPI)TypeScriptNext.jsREST APIgRPCGraphQLGH ActionsReact

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (SA + Dev + AI Certified)DevSecOpsMLOpsDORA SpecialistTerraformDockerKubernetesJenkinsCI/CD

Testing & QE

PlaywrightCypressJestCucumberAppiumPACT FlowTerraTestKafka Testing

AI Pair Engineering (AIPE)

Claude CodeOpenAI CodexGitHub CopilotCursorAiderCline

§ 03 / experience

Career.log

9 companies · 18y total

Building next generation multi-modal agents

  • Building next generation multi-modal agents for intelligent banking workflows
  • Driving AI innovation and engineering excellence across the bank
18+
Years
9
Companies
120+
Team Led
4
Awards

§ 04 / credentials

Certs.&.awards

11 total

▸ Professional Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Developer

Amazon Web Services

AWS AI Certified

Amazon Web Services

ITIL Certificate

ITIL Certificate

AXELOS

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

CCBA

CCBA

IIBA

▸ Honors & Awards

CEO Excellence Awards

Won for building first GENAI project in bank on RACO for adverse media screening

Excellence Awards

Won for building reusable expert AI system and AI agents for E2E dispute journey

Spot Award Winner

Recognition for exceptional performance and contributions

Achieving Excellence

Award for consistent high-quality delivery and leadership

§ 05 / education

Schooling

2007 - 2010

Master's Degree

Master of Computer Application

Indira Gandhi National Open University

2004 - 2007

Bachelor's Degree

Electronics and Computer Science

Bhavans Vivekanada College

§ 06 / contact

Let's.talk

$ contact --me

Email

manishmitra013@gmail.com

Location

Melbourne, Australia

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/manish-mitra

GitHub

github.com/manishmitra017

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