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venkat-uk/README.md

Venkat Ramachandran

I lead engineering teams that build AI platforms. My work sits where agent runtimes meet governance: capability control, evaluation, and audit evidence that a regulator can actually read. Previously led engineering for a global logistics platform running across 130 countries. Patent application pending on agentic AI for regulated workflows.

ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor · ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor · AWS Solutions Architect · Azure Solutions Architect Expert · TOGAF


What I build

Personal-time work, built in the open. These are reference implementations and working tools, not production software.

Governed agents

Repo What it does
agentic-os Ontology-driven agentic operating system as a reference implementation: governed capabilities, identity and budgets, policy in the runtime. Runs offline.
agentic-harness Agent harness with autonomy budgets, blast-radius controls, and audit trails a regulator can read.
agent-governance-kit Audits agent run traces against their governance claims. Findings map to EU AI Act Articles 12 and 14 and ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A.
compliance-as-code ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A and EU AI Act Articles 12 to 15 expressed as code, with an SPDX 3.0 AIBOM emitter.

LLM and API infrastructure

Repo What it does
llm-gateway Multi-provider gateway with an OpenAI-compatible API, routing, fallback chains, budgets and usage accounting.
apiloom-ce API gateway in Go: routing, auth, rate limiting, and a unified LLM proxy.

Operations tooling

Repo What it does
sre-copilot Alert triage and runbook execution behind approval gates, with a full audit trail.
confighub Schema-validated configuration service: environment overlays, secrets indirection, git-backed history.

Practice and learning

Repo What it does
Claude-Cyber-Skills 754 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND and NIST AI RMF.
agentic-engineer-path Onboarding path for engineers joining an agentic AI team: five stages, exercises, and a first 90 days plan.
aidlc An operating manual for AI-supported software development. Tool agnostic, measured per squad.
engineering-standards Engineering standards and checklists, phase by phase, for teams working under regulatory pressure.
awesome-ai-governance Curated list for building and operating AI systems under EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF and the UK AI Cyber Code.
awesome-rust-ai-governance Rust crates and projects for AI governance, observability and runtime safety.

More at mindfulcto-labs.


What I am working on now

  • Governed agent runtimes and the evidence they leave behind. Capability binding, autonomy budgets, and run traces that answer an audit question without a human writing the answer.
  • OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions for agent traces. Getting agent runs into a shape that standard observability tools can read, so governance evidence and operational telemetry are the same data.
  • Writing. Turning what works and what fails into notes other engineering leaders can use.

Writing

themindfulcto.com covers AI governance, agent safety, and the operating model for engineering teams working with AI.


Elsewhere

Open source contributions · LinkedIn · ORCID · Google Scholar

London, UK

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