Preeti Agarwal

For nearly two decades I've been building software systems, but over the last two and a half years I've been rethinking what it means to build software altogether.

Today I work at the intersection of software architecture, AI, and engineering productivity—designing AI-native systems where humans and intelligent agents collaborate to build better software, faster.

My work spans large-scale enterprise platforms, AI products, engineering operating systems, and autonomous developer workflows. I spend most of my time designing architectures that combine deterministic software with LLMs, RAG, vector search, structured prompting, evaluation pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration to solve real engineering problems.

At G-P, I'm leading initiatives such as GIA, an enterprise AI engineering assistant, and AIDLC—an AI Engineering Operating System that orchestrates multiple AI agents across planning, implementation, testing, documentation, code review, verification, and release. The goal isn't simply to generate code—it's to redesign how software engineering itself works in an AI-first world.

Outside my day job, I built OjasAI, an AI-native nutrition platform, entirely through AI-assisted development. From product strategy and UX to architecture, mobile apps, backend services, testing, deployment, and production release, the entire platform was designed and delivered using Cursor, Claude, OpenAI APIs, and agentic engineering workflows. The applications are live on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.

I've been using AI coding assistants daily for over 2.5 years and have watched the ecosystem evolve from simple code completion to sophisticated multi-agent development environments. My workflow today revolves around context engineering, structured prompting, agent orchestration, automated verification, and building engineering systems where AI becomes a reliable engineering teammate rather than just another tool.

Alongside industry work, I enjoy mentoring engineers, speaking at technology conferences, and exploring how AI is reshaping software engineering. I'm currently pursuing the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Generative AI & Agentic AI from IIT Kharagpur to deepen my understanding of LLMs, transformers, reasoning systems, and autonomous AI architectures.

I believe the future belongs to engineers who can combine deep software engineering fundamentals with AI-native thinking. We're moving beyond writing code—we're designing systems that can build systems.