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Manish
Mitra
AI Leadership → Chief Engineer · Westpac
Building the Agentic AI platform at Westpac with MCP, A2A, Google ADK, and Pydantic AI — and partnering with businesses to ship agents that make the bank AI ready.
CEO Excellence Award
Agentic AI Platform · Westpac
4 → 80 team growth
DORA Specialist
§ 01 / about
Who.am.i
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Currently Chief Engineer at Westpac, building the bank's Agentic AI platform and partnering with businesses to make Westpac AI ready.
Deep expertise in Agentic AI frameworks including Pydantic AI, Google ADK, LangGraph, MCP, ML OPS, and A2A. Building multi-modal agentic systems combining vision, speech, and text modalities. Built reusable expert AI systems, dialogue agent templates, and AI agents for E2E dispute journey winning Excellence Awards.
Previously Principal Engineer at Commonwealth Bank, where I built the first GENAI project in the bank on RACO for adverse media screening — winning CEO Excellence Awards — and grew the Gen AI team from 4 to 80. Before that, led 120 people at ANZ building an API modernization platform, was Principal Engineer at Wesfarmers for OnePass, and built AWS Business Banking Engineering Labs at NAB.
Passionate about engineering excellence, team development, and AI innovation. Strong contributor to AI Powered Engineering (AIPE) projects with campus relationships at Monash / Melbourne University.
Agentic AI Platform
Building Westpac's enterprise Agentic AI platform — the foundation teams build and ship agents on.
Team Growth
Grew team from 4 to 80 across Melbourne / Sydney / India — led 120 people at ANZ.
Innovation & Awards
Won Excellence Awards for E2E dispute journey AI agents — DORA specialist.
Technical Expertise
Pydantic AI, Google ADK, MCP, MLOps, LangGraph — AWS Certified (SA, Developer, AI).
§ 02 / skills
Tech.stack
7 categories ↓
Agentic AI & Frameworks
LLM & GenAI
AI Evaluation & Observability
Programming & APIs
Cloud & DevOps
Testing & QE
AI Pair Engineering (AIPE)
§ 03 / experience
Career.log
10 companies · 19y total
Building the bank's Agentic AI platform and making Westpac AI ready
- →Building the enterprise Agentic AI platform for the bank - the shared foundation teams build agents on
- →Partnering with business domains to design and ship agents against real business problems
- →Driving the bank's AI readiness - patterns, guardrails, and engineering uplift for safe agent adoption
- →Setting the technical direction for multi-agent architectures across MCP, A2A, and model orchestration
§ 04 / credentials
Certs.&.awards
11 total
▸ Professional Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Developer
Amazon Web Services
AWS AI Certified
Amazon Web Services
ITIL Certificate
AXELOS
Salesforce Certified Administrator
Salesforce
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
CCBA
IIBA
▸ Honors & Awards
CEO Excellence Awards
Won for building first GENAI project in bank on RACO for adverse media screening
Excellence Awards
Won for building reusable expert AI system and AI agents for E2E dispute journey
Spot Award Winner
Recognition for exceptional performance and contributions
Achieving Excellence
Award for consistent high-quality delivery and leadership
§ 05 / education
Schooling
2007 - 2010
Master's Degree
Master of Computer Application
Indira Gandhi National Open University
2004 - 2007
Bachelor's Degree
Electronics and Computer Science
Bhavans Vivekanada College
§ 06 / contact
Let's.talk
$ contact --me
manishmitra013@gmail.com
Location
Melbourne, Australia
linkedin.com/in/manish-mitra
GitHub
github.com/manishmitra017
Ready to
work together?
Project in mind or just want to chat about AI and engineering? Drop a line.