Vinoth Govindarajan
Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI, Co-Author of "Engineering Lakehouses with Open Table Formats" and Writes The Agent Stack
Vinoth Govindarajan is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he works on core data infrastructure for large-scale AI systems and internal agent-facing platforms. His recent work includes internal facing agents, a support and on-call assistant for Data Platform that applies agent memory and retrieval to operational triage.
He is co-author of Engineering Lakehouses with Open Table Formats and writes The Agent Stack, a systems-first publication on production AI agents and data infrastructure. His work focuses on control planes, state, memory, tool boundaries, reliability, and the architecture patterns that make agent systems safe and predictable in production.
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The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents
AI agents can look autonomous, but what keeps them reliable in production is the harness around the model.