abhinav bansal

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 at Morgan Stanley, leading engineering teams. Based in Glasgow.

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Abhinav Bansal, Glasgow. The Tech Plumber VP at Morgan Stanley, leading engineering teams. 10 years from test automation to agentic AI. try: plumber

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tidy/ python package ai-workbench/ claude code skill awesome-copilot-toolkit/ vs code extension macify/ shell script type a project name for details

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....

now

Leading agentic AI adoption at Morgan Stanley in Glasgow, and shipping tidy, an AI inbox cleaner that can't go rogue.

python package

tidy

Cleans up Gmail and YouTube subscriptions with AI without letting AI loose on your account. A small model judges each email; plain, tested code decides what that judgment may do; nothing risky happens until you approve.

  • Sorted a 12,158-email backlog for about $0.43
  • Never deletes, never touches starred mail, never clicks unsubscribe links
pipx install tidy-ai
claude code skill

ai-workbench

A Claude Code skill that sets up a matching matrix-green and cyber-purple dev environment on Linux: prompt, terminal, editor, diffs and status line. No sudo; it reads your config before touching it.

  • Claude Code
  • Skills
  • Linux
vs code extension

awesome-copilot-toolkit

A VS Code extension to browse and install custom instructions, prompts and chat modes from the github/awesome-copilot repository without leaving the editor.

  • TypeScript
  • VS Code
  • Copilot
us patent

BLAZE (US patent, co-inventor)

BDD Lean Automation Zenith Engine: turns API specifications into executable Java test suites using behaviour-driven development.

How I got from test automation to agents
writing

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speaking

Getting agents past the change board

What it takes to move agentic AI from demo to production in a regulated enterprise: guardrails, literacy programmes, and the reference implementations that make teams trust it.

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