Speakers

Rakesh Awasthi is a Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard, specializing in large-scale data platforms, high-performance systems, and enterprise modernization. He has deep experience working on mission-critical systems that process billions of records and require extreme correctness, performance, and operational stability.

Rakesh focuses on applying AI to the hardest engineering problems, not greenfield development, but understanding, validating, and safely evolving complex legacy systems. His recent work explores AI-assisted reverse engineering, differential testing at scale, and parity-first modernization strategies that dramatically reduce risk in large rewrites.

He brings a hands-on, systems-engineering perspective to AI infrastructure, emphasizing practical workflows, tooling, and validation techniques that work in real enterprise environments.