Ritvij Kumar Sharma
Principal Engineer, Kendal AI
- Agents
- Engineering
- AI Infrastructure
The take
Developers have become a bottleneck when it comes to reviewing code generated at such fast pace.
If senior engineers don't read the code being put in production, applications will break – race conditions, scalability issues, something the AI just missed. The answer boils down to one thing: trust. How do we trust our agents more? That leads us to building agentic coding systems and harnesses in such a way that, even without reading code, we can trust the work – system-design discussions with your agents up front, and verification systems around the harness so agents can verify their own work.
Editorial bio
Ritvij Kumar Sharma is five years into a career most engineers spend decades building, and his central provocation is that reading code is already optional. As Principal Engineer at Kendal AI – where he built the CRM used by top real-estate brokerages across MENA from 0 to 1 – he spends most of his day inside agent harnesses and agent memory systems, directing models rather than editing diffs.
What saves him from the bottleneck he's first to admit is real: trust engineered up front. System-design conversations with the agent before any code lands, verification systems around the harness so agents can check their own work. He published on it (IEEE ICSA 2023), ships on it (production real-estate tooling across the region), and treats "trust the agent" as an engineering problem, not a sentiment.
Worth following if you want to see what senior engineering looks like when the code stops being the artifact.
Key facts
- based in
- UAE (Indian national)
- current
- Principal Engineer, Kendal AI
- prior
- Full-stack engineer across mobile, web, blockchain and LLM apps · ~5 YOE
- focus
- Agent harnesses · agent memory · agentic coding workflows · system design
- research
- IEEE ICSA 2023 (DOI 10.1109/ICSA-C57050.2023.00055)
Featured work
Kendal AI (Principal Engineer)
Built the Kendal AI CRM from 0 to 1; now used by leading real-estate brokerages across MENA.
IEEE ICSA 2023 paper
DOI 10.1109/ICSA-C57050.2023.00055.
Agent harnesses & memory systems
Ongoing public exploration of what makes agentic engineering competent vs. chaotic.