Gautham Manuru PrabhuAI Engineer, Cisco Systems
Curriculum Vitæ · Bengaluru, India

Gautham
Manuru Prabhu

Agentic AI in production at Cisco. Temporal graph learning in the lab at San José State.


I work on Cisco's AI Acceleration team, inside Supply Chain Operations. I own retrieval quality, evaluation and guardrails for LLM-backed agents that now close 35% of incoming support cases with no human in the loop, and brought mean time to resolution down by 40%. I joined as an intern in January 2024 and was promoted twice in the 18 months that followed.

I work with Dr. Saptarishi Sengupta at MiCoSys Lab, San José State University, on training Temporal Graph Neural Networks over dynamic graphs under a fixed memory and compute budget. Six of my papers are peer reviewed, across quantum machine learning, retinal imaging and NLP.

Gautham Manuru Prabhu
Manipal Institute of Technology2024
Promotions in 18 months
6
Papers, peer reviewed
60+
Citations on Google Scholar
I.

Professional Experience

Cisco Systems, Bengaluru. Intern to Software Engineer 2 in 18 months.

Aug 2025 –PresentCurrent

Software Engineer 2, AI Acceleration

Cisco Systems Inc. · Bengaluru, India

Four agents run in production today: service-request resolution, knowledge-base indexing, case follow-up, and proactive alerting. Between them they close 35% of incoming cases with no human in the loop, took 40% off mean time to resolution, and return roughly 10,000 engineer-hours a quarter to the supply chain organisation.

Under the Quality Transformation Program I built failure-analysis and predictive-maintenance agents for the manufacturing side. They root-caused 70% of failures that previously went undiagnosed, improved upstream defect detection and brought down repeat failure rates across global sites.

I also found coverage gaps in Paladin edge connectors across 10 production lines, and wired SplunkAI observability into legacy systems that had none. I now own the research-to-production path for these agents end to end: retrieval quality, evaluation, guardrails.

Stack — Python · FastAPI · Agentic AI · LLMs · RAG · LangChain · LangGraph · LangSmith · SplunkAI · Docker · Kubernetes · OpenShift · ArgoCD · PostgreSQL · Snowflake

Aug 2024 –Aug 2025

Software Engineer 1, Supply Chain Operations

Cisco Systems Inc. · Bengaluru, India

Promoted from SE1 to SE2 in 12 months, the second promotion on the same team inside 18.

The year was a rewrite. Legacy failure-analysis workflows became event-driven microservices on Kubernetes, built with FastAPI, Cassandra and Redis. I added anomaly detection over manufacturing telemetry, and SLA dashboards in Prometheus and Grafana so that an on-call engineer saw a breach before the customer did.

Stack — FastAPI · Cassandra · Redis · Kubernetes · Prometheus · Grafana · Python · Microservices

Jan 2024 –Aug 2024

Software Engineering Intern, Supply Chain

Cisco Systems Inc. · Bengaluru, India

I converted from intern to SE1 in six months. I built microservices with circuit breakers and retry logic, and a release pipeline automated with Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes that took deployments from six hours to two minutes.

For Cisco's intern case study competition I built an NLP pipeline that standardised supplier names across 50,000 records, and it placed third of more than 100 entries.

Stack — Python · Flask · Jenkins · Docker · Kubernetes · REST · OpenAPI · NLP

II.

Research Experience

Five appointments, four labs. Graph learning, quantum machine learning, medical imaging, NLP.

2025 – PresentRemote

Research Associate, MiCoSys Lab

San José State University

Advisor: Dr. Saptarishi Sengupta

The problem is adaptation: models are trained once on a snapshot, and real graphs keep moving. I work on training Temporal Graph Neural Networks over dynamic graphs with millions of edges, under a fixed memory and compute budget, using PyTorch Geometric, DGL and CUDA across several GPUs.

Jun – Aug 2023Remote

Deep Learning Research Intern, Medical Informatics Lab

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Advisors: Dr. Subhamoy Mandal, Ms. Pragya Gupta

Optical coherence tomography scans are noisy and the classes are badly unbalanced. I proposed an ensemble feature-fusion approach for anomaly detection, tuning preprocessing, augmentation and colour-space features against a multi-class benchmark, and contributed to a set of 3,000 annotated retinal scans.

Feb 2022 – Nov 2023Manipal, India

Undergraduate Researcher, Cybersecurity & Quantum Computing

Manipal Institute of Technology

Mentor: Dr. Vivekananda Bhat

We tested whether quantum models could beat classical baselines at detecting cardiovascular disease from ECG images. QSVC, Pegasos QSVC and a quanvolutional neural network reached 97% accuracy, 10 to 14 points above the classical baselines we trained ourselves. The work was funded by a MeitY and AWS grant, and took us to the top 16 of 1,600 teams at the QETCI hackathon.

Jul 2022 – Oct 2023Manipal, India

Research Assistant, Biometrics & Software Engineering

Manipal Institute of Technology

Mentors: Dr. Srikanth Prabhu, Mr. Govardhan Hegde

Retinal vessel segmentation across 3,000 fundus images, combining CLAHE, Gaussian blur and edge detection. Because the images left Kasturba Medical College's network, we also had to encrypt them properly, so the pipeline carries Diffie–Hellman key exchange and AES-256. Published in Springer LNCS and presented at ATIS.

Sep 2022 – Jul 2023Manipal, India

Undergraduate Researcher, NLP & Social Graph Analysis

Manipal Institute of Technology

Mentor: Dr. Nisha P. Shetty

We modelled how vaccine misinformation travels, running BERT and XLNet over a corpus of 10,000 posts alongside a graph model of who repeats whom. Classification passed 90% F1 on the benchmark. The user-association signal did more work than the language model did.

III.

Publications

Six papers, peer reviewed. Author order as published.

  1. 01Q1 · IEEE Access60+ citations

    QuCardio: Application of Quantum Machine Learning for Detection of Cardiovascular Diseases

    S. Prabhu, S. Gupta, G. M. Prabhu, A. V. Dhanuka, K. V. Bhat

    IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 136122–136135, 2023

    doi 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3338145
  2. 02Journal · Elsevier

    Addressing Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media by Leveraging Transformers and User Association Dynamics

    C. Rao, G. M. Prabhu, A. R. Kumar, S. Gupta, N. P. Shetty

    Procedia Computer Science (ICMLDE 2023), vol. 235, pp. 1803–1813, 2024

    doi 10.1016/j.procs.2024.04.171
  3. 03Springer CCIS

    VIKAS: A Multimodal Framework to Aid in Effective Disaster Management

    G. M. Prabhu, T. Gupta, M. V. Srujan, A. R. Soumya, A. Palorkar, A. Chowdhury

    ATIS 2022, Springer CCIS, vol. 1804, 2023

    doi 10.1007/978-981-99-2264-2_22
  4. 04Springer CCIS

    EyeEncrypt: A Cyber-Secured Framework for Retinal Image Segmentation

    G. Hegde, S. Gupta, G. M. Prabhu, S. V. Bhandary

    ATIS 2022, Springer CCIS, vol. 1804, 2023

    doi 10.1007/978-981-99-2264-2_9
  5. 05IOP Journal

    A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Approaches for Vessel Segmentation in Retinal Fundus Images

    G. Hegde, S. Prabhu, S. Gupta, G. M. Prabhu, A. Palorkar, M. V. Srujan, S. V. Bhandary

    Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2571, p. 012021, 2023

    doi 10.1088/1742-6596/2571/1/012021
  6. 06Workshop · IISc

    SatelTensor: Satellite Data Exploration via Tensor Decomposition

    G. M. Prabhu, S. Gupta

    TCML Workshop, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 2023

IV.

Education

Computer science at Manipal, with a minor in big data analytics.

2020 – 2024Manipal, Karnataka

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Manipal Institute of Technology · Minor in Big Data Analytics

I graduated in the top 15% of the cohort, with coursework in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, deep learning, algorithms and distributed systems. I spent most of the four years inside three research labs, which is where the publications came from and where I learned to read a paper properly.

8.91
CGPA / 10
2008 – 2020Brahmavar, Karnataka

All India Senior School Certificate

Little Rock Indian School · Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics & Computer Science

Third rank nationally in the AISSCE 2020 examinations, which carried the Thayil Lonappan George Memorial Endowment Award, and the G. Chenthamarakshan Award for the best computer science project. NTSE state scholar, ranked 21 of 151,000 candidates.

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Tools of the Trade

What I reach for daily, not everything I have once installed.

Machine Learning
PyTorchscikit-learnNumPypandas

Agentic AI · LLMs · RAG · LangChain · LangGraph · LangSmith · PyTorch · PyTorch Geometric · DGL · TensorFlow · Keras · scikit-learn · Qiskit · GraphML · NLP · Computer Vision

Languages
PythonC++JavaJavaScriptTypeScript

Python · C++ · C · Java · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL

Services & APIs
FastAPIDjangoReactNext.js

FastAPI · Flask · Django · REST · gRPC · OpenAPI · Event-driven microservices · React · Next.js

Data Stores
PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQL

PostgreSQL · Snowflake · Cassandra · Redis · MongoDB · MySQL · Spark · Hadoop · Celery

Infrastructure
DockerAmazon Web ServicesGitMATLAB

Docker · Kubernetes · OpenShift · ArgoCD · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · SplunkAI · Prometheus · Grafana · AWS · Azure · CUDA

Correspondence

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