# Kuldeep Chowhan

> Founder & Technology Executive · Published Author · Forbes Technology Council Member · Angel Investor in AI Startups · Berkeley Haas Executive Alumni

## Overview

Kuldeep Chowhan is a technology executive and startup founder. He wrote the book on serverless computing, led marketplace technology at Walmart, and is now building an AI-first startup. He is a Forbes Technology Council member, the published author of Hands-On Serverless Computing (Packt Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-1788836654), and was Vice President of Marketplace Technology at Walmart Global Tech.

## Contact

- Website: kuldeepchowhan.bio
- Blog: kuldeep.me/blog
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kuldeepchowhan
- Medium: medium.com/@kuldeep
- GitHub: github.com/kchowhan

## Career

- **Stealth Startup** — Founder. Building AI agents and enterprise systems with bounded autonomy, structured context, and human oversight.
- **Walmart Global Tech** — VP, Marketplace & Walmart Fulfillment Services Technology. Oversaw technology powering one of the world's largest digital retail marketplace and fulfillment operations.
- **SoFi** — Principal Software Architect. Designed scalable fintech/banking infrastructure.
- **Expedia Group** — Principal Software Developer to Senior Director (5+ years). Built AWS platform tooling at scale, created PaaS for automated source code creation and CI/CD pipelines, designed fully automated deployment for Docker containers and AWS Lambda functions.
- **Microsoft** — Software Engineer (database & file management)
- **Tata Consultancy Services** — IT Analyst

## Book

Hands-On Serverless Computing: Build, run and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions. Packt Publishing, July 2018. Multi-cloud scope covering AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in a single volume. Available on Amazon, O'Reilly, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Google Books, VitalSource. Companion code on GitHub (MIT license).

## Executive Education

- UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business — Business Analytics for Leaders (Executive Education, credential on Accredible)
- Indian School of Business (ISB) — CTO Programme
- Harvard Extension School — Affiliated
- JNTU — B.Tech in Electronics (2001-2005)

## Current Focus: AI Agents

Recent published articles on Medium outline his framework for enterprise AI agents:
- "AI Agents Are Not Magic. They Are Loops." — Six-point framework: read-only tool permissions, explicit boundaries, structured outputs, deterministic checks, audit trails, evaluation sets.
- "The Rise of AI Agents in Business Operations" — Copilots accelerate people; agents complete multi-step work. Constrain autonomy, instrument every step, define human handoffs.
- "MCP + Context Engineering" — Model Context Protocol as standard for connecting AI applications to enterprise data and tools.
- "Incorporating a Startup: Delaware C-Corp, Atlas vs Clerky" — Practical founder's checklist for startup incorporation.
- "Naming Your Platform vs Your Control Plane" — Naming conventions for early-stage SaaS and infrastructure companies.

## Expertise

Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) · Serverless Computing · CI/CD & DevOps · Platform Engineering · AI Agents & Agentic AI · Marketplace & E-Commerce · Fintech · Engineering Leadership · Angel Investing in AI Startups

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuldeepchowhan/
- Medium: https://medium.com/@kuldeep
- GitHub: https://github.com/kchowhan
- Book: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Serverless-Computing-orchestrate-applications/dp/1788836650
- Forbes: https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Kuldeep-Chowhan-Vice-President-Marketplace-Technology-Walmart/b321c354-4586-4af1-932d-f94804a499ae
- Blog RSS: https://kuldeep.me/blog/index.xml

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*Last Updated: March 2026*