Open to engineering collaborations

Sumit Singh Kanwal.

Backend Lead at Cisco. Eleven years building systems with teeth — large-scale telco & hyperscaler analytics, AI-native developer tooling, and platforms that go from POC to production. Two startups, four live AI side-projects, one Cisco Live talk.

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Sumit Singh Kanwal
Cisco Live · 2026
11+
Years engineering
6
Companies & ventures
2
Startups co-founded
2026
Cisco Live · Amsterdam
Experience

Eleven years across telco, ed-tech, healthcare & AI.

Cisco Systems

Software Engineer III → IV → V

Aug 2020 – PresentBengaluru
  • Led teams building network monitoring & data analytics for Airtel, Jio 5G, and RioTinto — driving future business expansions.
  • Developed an AI-powered pull request reviewer for internal GitHub, now used by 4 teams across ~45 repositories.
  • Created a browser-based MCP with agents to automate testing and SRE workflows, running locally to preserve user sessions and improve developer productivity.
  • Built an AI configuration generator for ETL pipelines, empowering 3 product managers to independently roll out customized use cases for 4 enterprise customers.
  • Led design & implementation of network inventory, configuration, and syslog analysis for Meta, Microsoft, and Google — enabling vulnerability detection, migration planning, and automated remediation.
  • Multi-cloud deployments and operational strategies producing measurable MTTR reduction for 5G mobility clients.
Distributed SystemsGen-AIMCPMulti-cloud5GSplunk

DoSelect

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2018 – Aug 2020Bengaluru
Series A → Acquisition
  • Led product development team of 4 engineers.
  • Migrated Python2 EOL microservices to Python3, ensuring business continuity.
  • Owned release management; promoted effective collaboration across DevOps & SRE.
  • Implemented security enhancements; managed AWS budgeting and resource optimization.
  • Contributed through the company's journey from Series A funding to acquisition.
PythonAWSDevOpsMicroservices

Ekutur

Early-stage Team Member

Nov 2018 – Dec 2018Bengaluru
Karnataka Startup 300
  • Selected into the Karnataka Startup 300 cohort — a state-level program recognizing high-potential ventures.
  • Contributed to product and engineering decisions in a fast-moving startup environment, shaping early go-to-market and technical direction.
StartupProductKarnataka 300

ZenEducation Pvt Ltd

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2017 – Nov 2018Bengaluru
  • Led a development team of 2 engineers building ERP solutions for schools and an online analytics platform for decision-making based on student results.
ERPAnalyticsEd-tech

Reckare Pvt Ltd

Cofounder & Director

Sept 2016 – Nov 2017Bengaluru
Karnataka Startup 300
  • Co-founded Reckare to digitize healthcare via shareable medical records linked to Aadhaar fingerprint.
  • Connected 2 clinics and 5+ individual doctors onto the Reckare ERP solution.
  • Selected into the Karnataka Startup 300 cohort — state-level recognition of early-stage startups.
HealthcareERPFounderKarnataka 300

Cisco Systems

Network Consulting Engineer

June 2015 – Sept 2016Bengaluru
  • Provided software recommendations as part of the network optimization team to enhance client network performance.
NetworkingOptimization
Projects

Shipped, not slideware.

Independent products built end-to-end — live URLs you can open in a new tab and click around.

Webvortex

Agentic, developer-grade platform that turns natural-language prompts into fully functional web applications in minutes.

Agentic AICodegen

Spectre Analysis

AI code governance — tracks every line of code (human or AI) across the SDLC. ROI on AI spend, automated policy enforcement, audit-ready reports.

AI GovernanceDevSecOps

10kGraph

Interactive graph & data-visualization platform — build, explore, and reason over richly-linked datasets at scale.

GraphsData Viz

OrbitalVault

Secure cloud vault — manage sensitive credentials, secrets, and high-trust data with modern access controls and audit trails.

SecuritySecrets

AI Call Pro

AI calling agent handling tech-screens, loan follow-ups, property inquiries, and credit-card offers — automated conversations and scheduling.

Voice AIAgents

Podcast AI

Real-time, AI-generated podcast — pick the podcaster, the guest, the topic; episodes are dynamically generated on demand.

Generative AudioLLM

Motorg

LLM guardrail platform — define, enforce, and evaluate generative-AI policies with confidence scoring per evaluation.

GuardrailsPolicy
webvortex.site — demo
Snapshot

Stack, signals & schooling.

Languages & Data

PythonJavaPostgresTimescaleDBPrometheus

Platforms & Infra

LinuxAWSAzureKubernetesDockerHelmKafkaRabbitMQCelerySpark

Frameworks & Tools

DjangoRESTYAMLGrafanaSSOMicroservices

Automation & CI/CD

TerraformJenkinsArgoCDCircleCIAirflow

Gen-AI

RAGFine-TuningAI-OpsPrompt EngineeringLangChainLangGraphMCPA2ALLM AgentsEvaluation

Speaking

Cisco Live 2026 · Amsterdam · Technical Speaker.

Certifications

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate · 2015
  • Cisco Certified DevNet Associate · 2020
  • Machine Learning · eCornell · 2021

Published research

SQL injection and its counter measures — Elsevier Proceedings, Paper ID 1160, 2014.

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.Tech, Information Technology · 2011–2015 · GPA 8.2/10

Let's build something.

Engineering collaborations, founding-team conversations, or just to swap notes on AI tooling and distributed systems.

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