Deepak Koul

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Red Hat

19+ years building & scaling engineering teams in India for global enterprises. AI-first engineering leader. Founder of Pune AI Collective.

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Current Role

Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Global

Red Hat | Pune, India | Jan 2023 - Present

Leading multiple engineering and QA teams delivering enterprise digital to global partners. Key leader in ecosystem engineering, driving AI adoption with 90% agentic SDLC adoption.

Key Achievements

  • AI Thought Leadership: Presentations at MCP Dev Summit & FOSSASIA 2026. Led the team to be AI-native in productivity and solution embedding
  • Published Author: Author on Amazon - Technical writing on software engineering practices.
  • NPM Packages: Creator of cognitivelint and auto-testid - popular developer tools.
  • India Team Scaling: 12+ years growing Red Hat India teams from senior IC to senior management.
  • Open Source: TalkToTalentPool (RAG for resumes), Laburnum (monitoring), VSCode xpath2css plugin.

Core Competencies

Leadership

India Ops Scaling, Distributed Teams, Talent Development, Vendor Management

Engineering

Test Automation, CI/CD, Agile/DevOps, Release Management

Technology

AI/ML, Python, Java, Selenium, Cypress, AWS/GCP, K8s

Community Leadership

Founded Pune AI Collective - community for practical AI knowledge sharing. Organizing meetups, facilitating sessions, building partnerships across Pune's AI ecosystem.

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