About Ajin

I'm Ajin Baby — an AI Platform & Cloud Infrastructure Architect and a Staff Software Engineer at a global aviation-software company, where I own the architecture for how AI agents and LLM applications connect to internal systems and data, including the company-wide MCP gateway they go through. I've been on this platform for nearly a decade — most of it as a Computing Architect — so I've watched, and built, the shift from runbooks and dashboards to agents, MCP surfaces, and context graphs up close. In an industry where reliability and safety aren't optional, the job has always come down to the same thing: cloud, data, and AI foundations teams can ship on safely.

Over 15+ years I've settled into the space where AI platforms, agentic infrastructure, and cloud platform engineering meet. In production that has meant Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry, agentic workflows with vector databases and orchestration frameworks, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and Neo4j graph databases driving GraphRAG and context-aware retrieval. It has also meant the unglamorous, load-bearing work: ETL pipelines and Databricks Asset Bundles; AWS and Azure across compute, storage, networking, serverless, and directory services; Kubernetes, Helm, and service mesh; CI/CD on Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and GitHub; and identity across Okta, Auth0, Entra ID, PingFederate, and PingOne. What I care about most is the reliability, governance, and security patterns AI systems need when they run in regulated, safety-critical environments.

I didn't start in architecture — I started by building companies. As a 2x founder, I co-founded Veeble SoftTech and helped grow it from 3 people to 20, and from $500 in capital to ~$500K ARR across 110+ countries, while consulting 50+ companies through their cloud migrations. Alongside it, I co-founded and ran ExTravelMoney as CEO, a reverse-auction marketplace for India's retail foreign-exchange market that won the 2016 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Startup Award. That founder's instinct — start simple, ship, then scale only when you have to — still shapes how I build.

I hold an MS in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and am pursuing an MS in Artificial Intelligence at Indiana Wesleyan University. I've earned Microsoft's Azure AI Engineer Associate and Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, Neo4j Certified Professional, and CNSS credentials. I'm also a 15+ year IEEE volunteer and a recipient of the 2013 IEEE MGA GOLD Achievement Award (Senior Member application in progress). This site is where I write and build in public for engineers working on AI-enabled cloud platforms, MCP and agentic systems, and reliability patterns for the next generation of infrastructure. The domain says cloudandsre because reliability is the discipline that holds all of this together. I live in Parker, Colorado.