PyCon India 2025

Vatsal Shah

Vatsal Shah is a technologist, builder, and thought leader at the intersection of cloud, AI, and scalable systems. As a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS India, he specializes in breaking down complex challenges—whether it’s engineering architectures to handle tens of millions of users, delivering real-time ML at massive scale, or mentoring teams to innovate boldly. Vatsal’s journey spans startup and large-scale digital media, gaming, and internet platforms, with a focus on AI/ML, design thinking, and seamless digital growth. Since launching his career in 2013, Python has been his language of choice for crafting fast, scalable, and human‑centric solutions. When not driving cloud innovation or publishing on leading-edge tech, he explores new horizons in game tech and context engineering.


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Principal Solutions Architect at AWS India

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Session

09-13
14:50
30min
From Scripts to Solvers: Building Agentic AI Systems in Python That Think and Do
Vatsal Shah

Agentic AI moves beyond prompts to systems that plan, call tools, learn from feedback, and close the loop autonomously. This talk unpacks core patterns for Python developers: task decomposition, planning, tool/function calling, state and memory, multi‑agent orchestration, and guardrails. Through pragmatic code examples, it shows how to evolve a simple LLM script into a resilient agent with retries, fallbacks, and observability. Attendees will learn how to wire custom tools and APIs, manage conversational and episodic memory, evaluate and constrain behavior, and productionize agents with tests and telemetry. While cloud‑agnostic at its core, the session also maps these patterns to managed building blocks for deployment, vector search, data access, and event‑driven execution—so teams can ship maintainable copilots, automations, and domain specialists faster and safer.

AI, ML, Data Science
Track 2