Som Palkar

hi, i'm som.

software engineer building AI agents and the platform infrastructure they run on.

applied ai, backend, infra. from the agent runtime down to the API, shipped end to end.

previously an SDE Intern, now Software Engineer @ Accenture.
building the internal AI agent platform, on services serving 10M+ requests a month.

specialize in:

AI agents in production: orchestration, tool calling, memory and sandboxed execution.
making them trustworthy: evals, tracing, prompt caching and cost control.
the platform underneath: async APIs, queues, caching and serverless GPUs.

recent work: Durable Agent, Passport, TrainOps, VideoFlow.


projects

Durable Agent landing page
Durable AgentAutonomous coding agent

Turns a GitHub issue into a pull request: plans the change, writes the code, runs tests in an isolated Linux sandbox and attaches the results. Memory and files persist between runs, and cost per task is down ~50× to $0.014.

TypeScriptCloudflare WorkersDurable ObjectsSQLiteSSE
Passport landing page
PassportPortable auth for AI agents

One login for every AI agent you run. Connect GitHub, Slack or a database once, approve an agent's request, and it gets a short-lived scoped pass you can revoke in one click. Ships a CLI, an MCP server and 90 providers.

TypeScriptExpressMongoDBReactMCP
TrainOps landing page
TrainOpsFine-tuning & inference platform

Fine-tune open-source models and robotics policies from the browser, then call them through one OpenAI-compatible API. Runs on serverless GPUs with queueing, checkpoint/resume, retries and live training logs.

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLModalPyTorchLoRA
VideoFlow landing page
VideoFlowVideo collaboration for YouTube teams

Editors upload drafts, reviewers comment on exact timestamps, and creators approve and publish to YouTube without sharing the channel password. Includes AI thumbnail generation.

Next.jsNode.jsMongoDBAWS S3OpenAI

work

Accenture logo

Accenture

Software Engineer · Sep 2024 to present

Backend & Applied AI · internal AI agent platform

  • Agent workflows in production. Shipped multi-step LLM agents on LangGraph and CrewAI that took over manual review and structured data extraction.
  • Tool runtime. Designed the shared tool layer every agent calls: typed schemas, scoped permissions and predictable errors, so new tools and agents plug in without touching the runtime.
  • Retrieval. Built RAG over embeddings and vector search, so agents and users find answers by meaning, not exact keywords.
  • Quality and observability. Built an eval harness that catches regressions when a prompt, model or tool changes, plus per-run traces of reasoning, tool calls and token cost.
  • Platform scale. Own the async Python and Node services underneath, serving 10M+ requests a month. Cut API latency by 30% with Redis caching, query rewrites and background workers.

also worked with folks at

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moments

Tbh I'm still figuring it out. Here's a small glimpse of my journey so far.



writing

notes on things i've built and what broke along the way.

read everything on hashnode

much love

let's build something.

always happy to talk about AI agents, platform work, or an idea you can't stop thinking about.

som palkar · 2026built with next.js, deployed on vercel