Abhinav Bansal by Tower Bridge in London

The Tech Plumber

Wherever engineering leaks, I go in, then build the team and the tools so it stays fixed. Test automation, then modernization at scale, now AI agents.

Vice President, AI Platform & Tech Modernization, Morgan Stanley. Glasgow.

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A long time ago, in a bank far, far away....

Episode X

The Agentic Awakening

It is a period of manual testing. From a university hostel, a young founder has launched DollarsGPT, rallying 20,000 users to the cause.

Joining the Infosys and Morgan Stanley fleets, our engineer forges test frameworks, co-invents the BLAZE engine, and brings DevOps to the galaxy, cutting production incidents by 45%.

For five years the Plumber answers every call, modernizing systems across the fleet and handing each team cookie-cutter tools so no leak returns.

Now, as the agents rise, Abhinav leads the mission to bring them safely into production. Somewhere in the Glasgow system, the next agent is already being built....

10 yrs

From test automation to agentic AI

45%

Fewer production incidents

5+

Engineering teams led through modernization

1

US patent, co-inventor

Leaks I fix