Kosta Petan is a Solution Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native systems with a decade of hands-on experience building distributed, scalable platforms across startups and Microsoft. He blends backend engineering, DevOps and data engineering expertise—having contributed to Microsoft’s Autogen agent framework by implementing CLI tooling and devcontainer integrations for Cosmos DB and Qdrant. At Microsoft he’s acted as a technical lead and SME for AI agents and cloud-native architectures, helping unblock and win complex EMEA deals, and previously led reactive, event-sourced architectures and CI/CD at Record Union. Comfortable from low-level infrastructure to agentic AI, he brings a practitioner’s curiosity—software is both his profession and hobby—and a track record of turning research-grade AI projects into production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
A programming framework for agentic AI 🤖 PyPi: autogen-agentchat Discord: https://aka.ms/autogen-discord Office Hour: https://aka.ms/autogen-officehour
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:16 reviews, 15 PRs, 50 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kosta contributed to the core functionality of the AI agent framework, as indicated by the implementation of a CLI tool and the integration of a sandbox skill. They also focused on setting up and configuring the development environment, as evidenced by the additions of a devcontainer with Cosmos DB and Qdrant integration. The user’s work shows proficiency in orchestrating backend components and establishing a development pipeline.
Contributions:30 reviews, 70 PRs, 200 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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