Home
Feed

Extend

Hashnode Pro
Hashnode for Agents

Resources

The foreword
Hashnode gql skill

Buildful - AI coding agent that delivers frontier-level results at a fraction of the cost Bug0 - The AI-native e2e QA regression testing Hackathons Changelog Brand @hashnode on X Hashnode on LinkedIn Support - hello+support@hashnode.com Code of Conduct Terms Privacy Sitemap

Sign in

Search Hashnode

Search posts, tags, users, and pages

Yasvanth Udayakumar (@yudayakumar) | Hashnode

@yudayakumar

Yasvanth Udayakumar

@yudayakumar·Grand Rapids, USA·Joined July 2026

Staff Software Engineer building AI-agent infrastructure, AI observability, and cloud-native reliability systems.

About

Staff Software Engineer with 15 years across distributed systems, cloud architecture, and site reliability. I work on AI-agent infrastructure - Claude Code plugins, agent observability, and OpenTelemetry pipelines - and I write about what I learn building and instrumenting them. Expect posts on OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Kubernetes, and the practical side of making AI agents observable.

Available for

Conference speaking, technical paper contributions, and peer review of technical articles and conference submissions. Also open to technical mentorship and advisory work on AI strategy, agent observability, and platform reliability.

Yasvanth Udayakumar's blogs

Yasvanth’s XOps Labyasvanth.hashnode.dev4 posts

Articles Comments1

From SRE to ARE: Keeping AI Agents Reliable When They Can Act

Picture this. A customer asks a refund agent for a simple refund. The API is fast. Every service is up. The dashboard is green. And yet the agent refunds the wrong order. A request times out, so it tr

Sep 28 · 11 min readyasvanth.hashnode.dev

Context Auth: A Permission Layer for AI Personalization

Part 2 of 2. Part 1 covered the cold start tax and the idea of a context layer sitting next to identity. This part is about the mechanics of consent, and about being honest regarding what exists and w

Aug 18 · 16 min readyasvanth.hashnode.dev

The Cold Start Tax

Part 1 of 2 on Context Auth, an experiment I've been building. A small annoyance that turns out to be structural You sign up for something new. Before it does anything useful, it interviews you. What'

Aug 11 · 8 min readyasvanth.hashnode.dev

I Built a Local Observability Stack for Claude Code: Traces, Tool Calls, Tokens, and Cost

I was building a Claude Code plugin — a few skills, a couple of MCP servers, some hooks, the usual pile of scripts. It mostly worked. That was the problem: "mostly worked" was the highest resolution I

Jul 26 · 16 min readyasvanth.hashnode.dev

About

Staff Software Engineer with 15 years across distributed systems, cloud architecture, and site reliability. I work on AI-agent infrastructure - Claude Code plugins, agent observability, and OpenTelemetry pipelines - and I write about what I learn building and instrumenting them. Expect posts on OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Kubernetes, and the practical side of making AI agents observable.

Available for

Conference speaking, technical paper contributions, and peer review of technical articles and conference submissions. Also open to technical mentorship and advisory work on AI strategy, agent observability, and platform reliability.

Yasvanth Udayakumar's blogs

Yasvanth’s XOps Labyasvanth.hashnode.dev4 posts