Ajay Prakash

Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, building AI agents and the systems around them.

A personal space for my writing, talks, and open-source work. I am passionate about AI and AI agents.

Ajay Prakash

Portfolio

Selected work

Writing

Articles and engineering perspectives published on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Engineering · 2026

Contextual agent playbooks and tools

How LinkedIn gives coding agents organizational context through MCP tools and reusable playbooks.

LinkedIn · March 2026

Designing Efficient CLI Tools for AI Agents

Practical principles for agent-friendly command-line tools: non-interactive commands, structured output, dry runs, and concise skills.

LinkedIn · May 2026

Software Engineering Is Evolving Into Harness Engineering

Why engineering is shifting toward designing the context, feedback loops, memory, orchestration, and quality gates around AI agents.

LinkedIn Engineering · 2025

Building collaborative prompt engineering playgrounds

A Jupyter Notebook workflow that brought engineers and domain experts into the same rapid feedback loop.

Talks

Conference sessions on context engineering and AI agents.

AI Engineer

500 Skills, Zero Fine-Tuning

How LinkedIn scaled searchable tools and reusable agent skills without fine-tuning.

QCon AI Boston 2026

Context Engineering at LinkedIn

How we built an MCP-based organizational context layer for AI agents at LinkedIn.

Open source

Projects I build and share.

TypeScript · AGPL-3.0

Stratos

A framework for agents to author, run, and improve reusable TypeScript workflows—combining agents, MCP tools, and decision models.