# Vivek Vellaiyappan Surulimuthu

vivekvells.com

## Title

Senior Software Development Engineer | AI/ML Engineer

## About

"Engineer. Dreamer. Empowering humans through tech."

Engineer spanning AI, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience, driven by using technology to solve real-world problems and empower human lives. I build solutions that bridge innovation with measurable business impact from enterprise AI agents contributing to $98M opportunities to open-source tools with 470+ GitHub stars.

## Current Role

- Company: Expedia Group (https://www.expediagroup.com)
- Role: Senior Software Development Engineer | AI/ML Engineer
- Period: 2021 - Present
- Leading Vrbo partner virtual assistant migration to modern AI agent platform (3 engineers, 4+ teams)
- LLM pipeline compresses partner onboarding from 45 to 120 minutes down to under 10 minutes
- $98M AI opportunity (KAI chatbot)
- $8-40M projected savings (FBI Engine)
- AI Agent Incident Analyzer: 10min → 30sec, CTO demo
- 740+ weekly users (browser extension)
- 120+ developers, 30+ teams (E2E framework)
- 2× MVP Awards (Q4'24, Q1'25)
- $273K+ proven savings
- AI Hackathon Winner (87 teams)

## Key Impact

- $98M+ — Business Impact
- $273K+ — Proven Savings
- 470+ — GitHub Stars
- 120+ — Developers Enabled
- 13K+/mo — Downloads
- 2× MVP — Awards (2024-25)

## Skills

- AI/ML: AI Agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), RAG, LangGraph, Strands Agents, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, AI Evals, AI Observability, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AgentCore Memory, Databricks, Langfuse, Google A2A, BrowserUse
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, SCSS, Micro Frontend, Browser Extensions
- Backend: Node.js, ExpressJS, Python, Kotlin, GraphQL, REST APIs
- DevOps & Cloud: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm Charts, Jenkins, Spinnaker, AWS, Azure

## Open Source & Featured Projects

- AI Agent Incident Analyzer — Solo-architected AI Agent reducing critical revenue-impacting incident investigation time from 10-20 minutes to <30 seconds, significantly improving MTTR.
- KAI - AI Documentation Assistant — AI-powered assistant enabling documentation Q&A, automated actions, and agentic workflows. Architected 'Chatbot-as-Code' GitHub Actions for streamlined deployment.
- mcp-pandoc (https://github.com/vivekVells/mcp-pandoc) — A Model Context Protocol server for document format conversion using pandoc. Officially included in the MCP servers open-source project.
- mcp-pandoc (https://github.com/vivekVells/mcp-pandoc) — Model Context Protocol server for document format conversion. Enables seamless document transformation between Markdown, PDF, DOCX, HTML, and more. Featured in PulseMCP Weekly Newsletter (Dec 2024).

## Recognition

- 2× MVP Awards (Q4 2024 & Q1 2025) — Consecutive organization-level Most Valued Person recognition for eliminating 100% false positive alerts while delivering $37K annual proven cost savings through Selenium to Playwright migration.
- Brainwave AI Hackathon Winner 2025 — Won hackathon (87 teams, 390+ participants) by creating Guest Review Insights, transforming reviews into actionable ROI insights.
- EG Hackathon 2022 Winner — First place for creating 'Travel Widget', a multi-tenant configurable solution for seamless partner app integration.

## Speaking & Community

- The AI Summit New York 2025 (Panelist, December 10-11, 2025) — https://newyork.theaisummit.com/speakers/vivek-vellaiyappan-surulimuthu
- CAG: Chunked Augmented Generation (arXiv 2024) — https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18708

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/vivekVells
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vivekvellaiyappans
- X: https://x.com/VivekVells
- Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N8-JhKcAAAAJ&hl=en
- Medium: https://medium.com/@vivekvells
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UClZOc7ylq8ay9tnkuaa1f0A

## AI Endpoints

- Index: https://vivekvells.com/llms.txt
- Full context: https://vivekvells.com/llms-ctx-full.txt
- Machine index: https://vivekvells.com/llms.json
- Sitemap: https://vivekvells.com/sitemap.xml