Ayan Putatunda

Ayan Putatunda is a Staff Data Engineer at Zendesk responsible for architecting petabyte-scale data platforms that power production AI applications. He leads enterprise AI-readiness initiatives, specializing in context governance, Model Context Protocol (MCP) architectures, and agentic frameworks designed to safely connect LLM agents to governed enterprise data. At the intersection of the modern data stack and Generative AI, Ayan’s work focuses on automating complex data workflows across dbt, Snowflake, and Airflow.