# Agradeep Khanra > Head of Platform at Proto AI | US Permanent Resident Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/agradeep Staff-level engineering leader building AI-native healthcare platforms, with engineering management experience leading 15+ engineers across multiple teams and owning organization-wide platform architecture. Deep expertise in distributed systems (5B+ requests/month), production RAG/LLM infrastructure, and regulated cloud architectures (HIPAA, SOC 2). Proven track record of scaling engineering teams, driving cross-functional technical strategy, and delivering production AI systems in high-growth environments ## Work Experience ### Head of Platform @ Proto AI Jan 2026 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Building the platform layer for an AI-native healthcare operating system serving patients across all 50 US states. First engineering leadership hire at a seed-stage startup founded by operators from Tempus AI, doc.ai, One Medical, and Stanford Medicine. - Leading engineering teams across platform, security/compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), and release infrastructure Architecting core order management platform with national-scale healthcare service integrations for labs, prescriptions, diagnostics, imaging, and referrals - Designing multi-agent orchestration systems blending AI agents with event-driven workflows for clinical automation - Designing and shipping clinician-facing workflows that reduce administrative overhead, collaborating closely with Product and Design to translate clinical needs into intuitive, scalable UX - Deploying production RAG pipelines, LLM infrastructure (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), and multi-tenant architectures with RBAC governance - Mentoring engineers through technical design reviews, architectural guidance, and establishing engineering best practices for a growing organization ### Engineering Team Lead @ Tempus AI Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area Led Tempus's core data infrastructure platform serving 5B+ requests/month across genomic, clinical, and imaging teams with a team of 5 engineers as the de facto team lead. - Owned platform strategy, architecture, and delivery across 12+ concurrent programs - Managed and mentored a team of 5 engineers through performance reviews and career development; onboarded 4 new team members without disrupting platform stability - Drove technical initiatives spanning distributed systems observability, Postgres-to-Spanner migration, BigQuery/Cloud Storage cost optimization, and core data ingestion pipeline improvements - Shipped TypeScript and Python SDKs, Terraform IAC, and access control systems; triaged 100+ production support requests per quarter with zero incidents - Built a feature request impact framework to quantify the business cost of under-resourcing, tying engineering capacity to revenue opportunity ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tempus AI Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | New York, NY - Performing the responsibilities of a Tech lead including defining project specifications and technical direction, guiding team members with troubleshooting technical issues, and overseeing software quality, testing, and release cadence - Expand and strengthen Tempus' event-driven clinical pipeline - Oversaw the migration of bioinformatics workloads and services to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Utilize serverless technologies, including AWS Batch, SQS, Step Functions, Lambda, and various Google Cloud services like GKE, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Airflow, and Transfer Service - Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Concourse, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins ### Software Engineer @ Tempus AI Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area ### Software Developer, Applications @ Dandy Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Technologies - Typescript, React (with React Hooks exclusively), Nest.js (with TypeORM), Node, Postgres, Mongo Responsibilities - Developed new React application to enable dentists to do their job better and faster. The development was being driven with the use of the new React Hooks - Built supporting backend APIs using Nest.js (Node.js framework), and designed new Entities in Postgres using TypeORM - Built integrated analytics into the front-end application using tools like Segment and MixPanel to understand how the dentists interact with the web and mobile app ### Software Developer @ Egen Solutions Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area Software Developer Tech Stack - Node.js with Nest framework, React, Redux, MobX, JavaScript (ES6), TypeScript, Jest, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python Responsibilities - Main responsibilities include the design and development of core backend micro-services to replace old services as they were not scaling well - Drive the strategic initiatives on technology selection, develop prototypes, research and development and process improvement - Work with multiple teams to support their integration with the new core services - Write Python scripts and SQL queries to transition data from old systems to the new systems - Develop services to help and automate the processes of the biggest operations teams in Tempus - Built several UX apps using React, Redux and MobX to facilitate users to view and manipulate data stored in the new services being developed ### Student Assistant @ University at Buffalo (UB) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Part Time Full Stack Developer Was working on a part time basis with Professor Bina Ramamurthy of the CSE Department at UB on several web development endeavors Key Accomplishments: - Created a webapp in collaboration with the Dance Dept. at UB to create an application that will track the genealogical networks between dance artists, students, performers, etc. Link: http://choreographiclineage.buffalo.edu/ -> Key responsibilities include following latest SEO optimization standards and creating forms that allow users to save their data and continue at a later time. -> Create normalized and robust databases that dynamically update the network graph -> Develop quality code and implement proper security measures to prevent SQL injection and XSS attacks -> Constantly interact with students and professors from the Dance Dept. to add new functionalities and test the website thoroughly - Collaborating with other students to drive the UB Minecraft Hackathon event to success. Websites under development: https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/games/ https://ubminecrafthackathon.wordpress.com/ -Worked with Prof. Ramamurthy to create a visually and functionally dynamic portfolio and course dashboards Websites under development http://www.agradeepk.com/BinaR/index.html http://agradeepk.com/BinaR/CSE4587/index.html ### Software Developer @ JPMorgan Chase Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Recruited to complete projects focusing on designing, development and testing of various Automation Frameworks Key Accomplishments: - Collaborated with teams to complete projects utilizing VBScript, QTP, ALM, Java, and Excel VBA focused on improving efficiency of tools and increase automation coverage. - Charged with completing a project focusing based on the Hibernate framework and various programming languages including JSP, Java, and MySQL developed through two sprints as part of Agile methodology. - Organized employee development events as member of Technology Engagement Committee (TEC) determined to engage employees through professional development activities. - Employed marketing initiatives for P-Expo 2013 and 2014 that presented innovative ideas to global leaders ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University at Buffalo Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering University of Mumbai Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/agradeepkhanra - Website: http://www.agradeepk.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/agradeep JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/agradeep/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22