Naga Chand Putta is a Senior Software Engineer and data platform specialist who has spent 10 years building the kind of systems that process millions of financial records without breaking a sweat. At MissionSquare Retirement, he develops cloud-native pipelines on AWS and has been actively using LLMs in development and platform — via AWS Bedrock — long before it became fashionable. He speaks at conferences, reviews research papers, and writes on Medium about the unglamorous but critical work of making AI actually useful in regulated industries like finance and healthcare. His expertise sits at the intersection of Java/Spring Boot engineering, AWS cloud infrastructure, and practical AI integration. Chandu is based in Raleigh, NC and is the person journalists call when they need a practiti...