Hari Narayn

Hari Narayn is a Senior AI Engineer and enterprise AI architect with over 15 years of experience building production systems on Azure and the wider Microsoft ecosystem. He is the author of Architecting Intelligent Agents in Azure (Apress), a practical guide to designing, deploying, and operating intelligent agent systems in real-world environments.

His work focuses on production-grade AI: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AI agents, and multi-agent architectures, with a particular emphasis on the security, governance, and assurance that regulated industries demand. He works across orchestration with the Microsoft Agent Framework, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) collaboration, alongside the engineering discipline that takes AI from prototype to production: evaluation, observability, and reliability.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, he writes and speaks regularly on emerging AI engineering patterns, translating complex business challenges into secure, scalable solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.