Manikandhan Balakrishnan
Principal Engineer & Technical Architect
I design and ship cloud-native .NET platforms — and I write & film about building production AI agents with .NET and the cloud.
About me
I'm a Principal Engineer and Technical Architect with 15+ years designing and shipping large, cloud-native .NET microservices platforms on Google Cloud and Azure — including sizeable Kubernetes estates with Istio service mesh and Kafka / MQTT messaging backbones.
These days my focus is where .NET meets AI: building agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, and the Model Context Protocol, and running them reliably in production. I share what I learn — in depth, code-first — through my blog and channel.
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