# Kiran C. Kantheti

> Engineering executive focused on responsible AI-assisted development, human-in-the-loop RAG delivery, enterprise platforms, and global product organizations.

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Location: Folsom, California, United States

## Executive scope

- 20+ years in enterprise software and 11 years of progressive leadership at MarkLogic.
- Led 48-60 engineers and managers across the United States, India, and South America.
- Accountable for a $12M-$15M R&D portfolio serving 90+ enterprise and government customers.
- Engineering leadership across Data Hub, DevOps and SRE, administration and observability, Corticon, Kubernetes and Operator engineering, and technical content.

## AI transformation

- Led adoption of AI-assisted development among initially skeptical senior engineers through working pilots, peer champions, clear guardrails, and transparent review data.
- Established human-in-the-loop review and approval across requirements, architecture, AI-generated code, tests and evaluations, security, and production release.
- Led AI-assisted delivery of RAG and semantic retrieval using vector search, embeddings, and knowledge graphs for contextual access across millions of enterprise documents.
- Extended the operating model to general engineering work while keeping people accountable for quality, security, and release decisions.

## Business and delivery outcomes

- Supported more than $50M in ARR opportunities through customer sessions, POCs, proposals, SOWs, and delivery partnerships.
- Reduced cloud spend 28%, approximately $1M annually.
- Reduced deployment lead time 60% and improved developer throughput 30%.
- Promoted 20+ engineers and developed 7 managers and team leads.

## Core expertise

AI transformation; AI-assisted SDLC; human-in-the-loop engineering; responsible AI; retrieval-augmented generation; LLM evaluation; semantic and vector search; knowledge graphs; enterprise data platforms; Kubernetes; DevOps; SRE; global engineering leadership.

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