The Big Fat Geek

Personal blog of Prasad Ajinkya

About

Prasad Ajinkya is a software architect and engineering leader based in Mumbai, India. He serves as Head of Technology across Homeville Group and Bharat Housing Network, overseeing core digital infrastructure for housing finance, co-lending platforms, and automated credit systems.

His work centers on the mechanical realities of Indian financial technology: developing high-throughput ingestion and underwriting engines that convert unstructured data—from multi-account bank statements and Goods and Services Tax (GST) returns to vernacular property titles—into deterministic, auditable decisions.

In artificial intelligence, he favors deterministic systems over probabilistic guesswork. He is the architect of Manthan, an internal Git-backed shared memory and distributed telemetry hub that equips autonomous agents with persistent operational context, architectural invariants, and OpenTelemetry-compliant session tracing. Working alongside Dnyankosh—an institutional Model Context Protocol gateway that grounds machine tasks in statutory and architectural standards—his systems coordinate multi-agent engineering workflows across diverse foundation models in production.

Since 2008, he has published The Big Fat Geek, documenting empirical telemetry from production AI workloads, distributed software design, and engineering management.

Contact

Questions, discussions, or inquiries may be directed to [email protected]. He can also be found on X (formerly Twitter).