# Aman Sardana

Principal Engineer at Cisco. Based in North Carolina, US.

I build enterprise AI platforms, products, and services. I’m a Principal Engineer at Cisco, with a background in product management and network operations. I care as much about choosing the right problem as I do about the engineering it takes to solve it. I want to build software people love using, and help other engineers grow through mentorship.

## Ideas
- [Non-Obvious Patterns in Building Enterprise AI Assistants](https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/non-obvious-patterns-in-building-enterprise-ai-assistants): The product and engineering decisions that make an AI assistant useful beyond the demo.

## Library
- [Learnable Programming](https://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/) — Bret Victor: An interface should make its possibilities visible. Victor explores this through programming environments that help people see state, understand vocabulary, and learn by reacting to something concrete.
- [Simple Made Easy](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/) — Rich Hickey: A distinction between what is familiar and what is structurally simple. Hickey examines the cost of intertwining concerns, even when the tools that do it feel convenient.
- [Evergreen notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes) — Andy Matuschak: Notes written to develop an understanding over time. Small, connected observations can become material to think with, instead of an archive of things once consumed.

## Open source
- [Compass](https://github.com/sardanaaman/langgraph-compass): Follow-up questions grounded in what an agent can actually do. A dedicated LangGraph node with configurable triggers, capability grounding, and novelty filtering.

## Talks
- [10 lessons from building AI agents that people actually use](https://amansardana.work/talks/voxel51-ai-meetup/) — Voxel51 · AI, ML & Computer Vision Meetup, April 2, 2026. [Event](https://voxel51.com/events/ai-ml-and-computer-vision-meetup-april-2-2026)
- [Intelligent integrations for Cisco Services as Code](https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?search=aman%20sardana#/session/1750271831900001z64U) — Cisco Live, 2025. [Event](https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?search=aman%20sardana#/session/1750271831900001z64U)
- [Splunk, OpenTelemetry & sustainability](https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?search=aman%20sardana#/session/1750271946864001zxjr) — Cisco Live, 2025. [Event](https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?search=aman%20sardana#/session/1750271946864001zxjr)
- [Detection & response with Cisco XDR and generative AI](https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?search=aman%20sardana#/session/1717272597398001tn54) — Cisco Live, 2024. [Event](https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?search=aman%20sardana#/session/1717272597398001tn54)

## Connect
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/amansardana)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/sardanaaman)
- [X](https://x.com/amsardana)

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