Aditya Kumarakrishnan
He / him / his
Technical Fellow @Walmart in Applied AI
Aditya is a self-described lover of shaving yaks, an admirer of Chesterton's fences and enjoyer of obscure references. Along with his extensive experience in building complex distributed systems to big data and real-time ML instructure, Aditya tries to bring a first-principles, historically grounded and formally sound perspective to solving problems.
As one of the technical fellows at Walmart Global Tech., he's helped lead various marquee AI initiatives at Fortune 1 scale and is now focused on building foundational enterprise agent platforms and establishing best practices for agent builders.
Some relevant topics he's especially passionate about are: metal working, types & functional programming, spending time in the wilderness, process science, tropical fruits and like many of you -- AI agents.
Session
From Hype to Strong Foundations: What the Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Agents Can Teach Us About Outlasting the Cycle
2025 has been declared "the year of agents", but so were 1994, 1998, and 2016. In fact, the history of agents is a story of recurring peaks and valleys.