Kamal Raj Sekar
2x Failed AI SaaS Maker | Published Author | Tech Agile Coach | AI Enthusiast | Speaker | Open Source Contributor
About Me
I help organizations become technically agile and leverage AI throughout their engineering processes wherever applicable. Through Ampyard , we provide custom AI workshops tailored to your business context and tech stack.
With 15+ years experience, I've co-created AI products (FaceQuest and Notesally), authored books on TDD and AI-augmented development, co-authored the research paper 'Agentic Code Surgery for Brownfield Systems' published on Zenodo (2026), and written the white paper 'Real Productivity, Rare Pushbacks' on AI agents. I work with teams from startups to Fortune 500s, helping them ship quality software using proven engineering practices and modern AI tools.
Published Books
Author of technical books on Test-Driven Development
Test-First Copilot - Greenfield Edition (.NET and React)
Kamal Raj Sekar, Kiran Kashyap, Vivek Ganesan
Crafting provably high quality software using Github Copilot. A comprehensive guide to building greenfield applications with AI-powered development tools while maintaining TDD practices.
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TDD for C# and .Net Core
Kamal Raj Sekar
Master Test-Driven Development for .NET Core and microservices. A practical guide covering modern C# development with TDD principles, from basics to advanced patterns.
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TDD for Angular
Vivek Ganesan, Kamal Raj Sekar
A beginner-friendly manual for building robust Angular applications using Test-Driven Development. Learn to write testable code and deliver high-quality frontend applications.
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Published research and whitepapers on AI, software engineering, and agile practices
Agentic Code Surgery for Brownfield Systems
Vivek Ganesan, Kiran Kashyap, Kamal Raj Sekar
Proposes a seven-agent workflow - Plan, Map, Break, Cover, Implement, Refactor, Finish - that forces an AI assistant to characterize existing behavior with tests before touching code. Applied to a real brownfield codebase, this workflow produced 43 new passing tests (raising statement coverage from 0.85% to 16.78%) vs. zero new tests with a regular approach, and avoided all critical and major bugs the regular approach introduced.
Real Productivity, Rare Pushbacks
Kamal Raj Sekar
A whitepaper on integrating AI agents into product development workflows. Explores practical strategies for adopting AI-augmented engineering while maintaining quality and team productivity.
Speaking & Training
Sharing knowledge at conferences and workshops
Agile Mumbai 2025 - GenAI
AI Talk at Infosys - Gearbox
AI Aware IT Leader (3.5 days)
Tech-Savvy IT Leader (3 days)
Public Talks
Agile Mumbai 2025 - GenAI
AI Talk at Infosys - Gearbox
Training Workshops
AI Aware IT Leader (3.5 days)
Tech-Savvy IT Leader (3 days)
Open Source Contributions
Contributing to the developer community
Google Gemini CLI
Contributed to Google Gemini CLI fixing some bugs and refactor
GitHub Awesome Copilot
Contributed a new resource to the Awesome Copilot curated list
Microsoft GitHub Copilot - GHCP
Contributed to GHCP on some refactor
Gauzer
Observability-first struct validation library for Go. Drop-in struct tags, 61ns zero-alloc performance, and native slog/OTel telemetry on every failure - so validation errors land in Datadog, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor as queryable structured events, not strings you have to parse.
playwright-specgen
Turns Playwright trace.zip files into readable user-flow YAMLs, API maps, and executable test files - automatically. The missing observation layer between recorded human behaviour and AI agent operation: gives coding agents (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) machine-readable behavioural specs instead of opaque legacy code.
filesystemwatcher-mcp
MCP server that gives AI coding agents (Gemini, Claude, Cursor, Copilot) event-driven access to file-system changes - creations, modifications, deletions, and moves - without busy-polling. Built on Watchdog with cross-platform native OS events and strict safety guardrails.
Azure Notification Hubs
Sample repo demonstrating push notifications integration with Azure and Spring Boot.
Akka HTTP
Contributed to Akka’s Scala-based actor system and HTTP components.
Kanbanstr
Contributed features to this Nostr-based Kanban board app.
Zapddit
Helped build this Reddit-style client for the decentralized Nostr network.
...and many more
Explore more of my open source contributions on GitHub.
Skills & Expertise
Core competencies and technical proficiencies