Publications

Books & writings.

Passing on what I’ve learned through books, research papers, and a newsletter — on AI, software engineering, and technical agility.

Research

Two published papers.

A preprint on agentic refactoring, and a white paper on putting AI agents into product teams.

Preprint Empirical Software Engineering 2026 · Zenodo

Agentic Code Surgery for Brownfield Systems

Vivek Ganesan, Kiran Kashyap, Kamal Raj Sekar

Seven agents (Plan, Map, Break, Cover, Implement, Refactor, Finish) that make an AI assistant write characterization tests before it touches your code.

43
new passing tests
0.85% to 16.78%
statement coverage
0
critical bugs
Whitepaper 2024 · Ampyard

Real Productivity, Rare Pushbacks

Kamal Raj Sekar

What we learned putting AI agents into real product teams: where they genuinely helped, where people pushed back, and what we would do differently.