Summary
George Vetticaden is a founder and principal consultant who helps enterprises design and ship production-grade AI agents, combining strategy, architecture, and hands-on implementation through his Agent Development Lifecycle. With 20+ years building streaming data platforms at Hortonworks and Cloudera (Kafka, Flink, NiFi) and leading AI agent product development as VP of Products at Sema4.ai, he bridges deep systems engineering with product and solutions leadership. He’s led product, engineering, solutions, and field-CTO functions, and has guided 300+ enterprise customers and delivered 52+ multi-agent systems to production. Based in Naperville, IL, he favors pragmatic, agent-first solutions—an "agentic mindset" he formalized to empower humans with collaborative AI rather than replace them. An entrepreneur at heart, he pairs startup agility (co-founding eScreeningz) with open-source and cybersecurity experience (Apache Metron committer) to solve real-world data and AI challenges.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Louis University High School (SLUH)
BA Computer Science Math, BA Computer Science Math at Trinity University