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building the future, in real time

MANI
KHANUJA.

Scaling autonomous AI agents safely and efficiently, from the boardroom decision to the deployed system.

Mani Khanuja
Mani Khanuja
Principal GenAI Specialist SA, AWS
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The AI Steering Wheel.

A Unified Framework for Scaling Generative and Agentic Systems

Most AI programmes do not fail on the model. They fail in the gap between the boardroom decision and the deployed system. This book closes that gap with three interlocking layers.

  • Strategy, deciding what to build, and what to refuse to build.
  • Operations, governance, evaluation, and the guardrails that hold under load.
  • Engineering, the architecture that carries a decision to production intact.

Co-authored with Dr. Fouad Bousetouane.

About

Architecting the future,
with care.

I am a Technical AI Leader and Principal Generative AI Solutions Architect at AWS, with 20+ years building AI platforms from scratch and driving enterprise AI strategy. I work directly with customers on their generative AI strategy, from architecture through to production deployment at scale.

My current focus is scaling autonomous AI agents safely and efficiently: stateful, memory driven agents with personalization, AI governance frameworks, and translating current research into systems that survive contact with production.

I co-authored The AI Steering Wheel and wrote Applied Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing on AWS. I co-host Build & Bet with Preethi Ravula, and I teach inference optimization on the Agentic Enterprise YouTube channel. I live in Seal Beach, California, where I stay honest with long runs along the coast.

20+
Years in AI and tech
100+
Conferences
2
Books
15+
AWS deep dives

In the field

On stage, and in the room.

re:Invent, Grace Hopper, AWS Summits. The conferences where the work gets stress tested.

Short form

Short form, same rigour.

The long form, cut down. New Shorts land on the channel every week.

The Shorts are on YouTube.

Every Short on YouTube