Builder at heart,
computer scientist by training.
I’m Amandeep Khurana. Endlessly curious, always pushing at the boundaries of what’s possible. I work on applied AI and AI infrastructure, advise founders, write about health & longevity, and ship things. Usually in that order, sometimes all at once.
Currently at AWS on the AgentCore team, bringing agents into production. Previously founding PM for Kiro, and founder of Okera (exited to Databricks). I thrive at the intersection of technology and human potential, looking for ways to solve meaningful problems.
Beyond the day job, I’m deep into AI × Health, metabolic health, longevity, human performance, and parenting. Not just interests, but areas where I actively contribute through writing, research, and experimentation. I also advise leaders on bringing AI into their organizations, and selectively invest in startups I get excited about.
- role
- Product · AWS AgentCore
- past
- Founding PM Kiro · Founder Okera (→ Databricks)
- writes
- Desi Vitals · Paid Tuition · Personal Substack · X articles
- advises
- AI × infra / AI × health founders
- author
- HBase in Action · Manning, 2012
- based
- Silicon Valley
A hand-picked selection. Full archive on Substack ↗ and X ↗.
- Apr 182026Let Time Do the Work
The most important financial skill is the simplest one.
- Apr 112026Sleep Is a Superpower
Why I was picking fights about dinner at 6 PM.
- Apr 042026Feedback Is a Gift
The real cheat code.
- Apr 022026Agents of chaos, what a new study tells us about multi-agent systems
What happens when you let many agents talk to each other with no referee? A lot, and not all of it good. Reading notes and implications for production design.
- Mar 282026The People You Choose
What I learned about being deliberate about who I spend time with.
- Mar 222026Manage Your State
The earlier you learn to manage your reactions, the less they cost you.
- Mar 182026Supercharging engineering with Claude
My Claude Code setup, the specs, skills, and memory practices that separate demo-able agentic coding from work I'd actually ship.
- Mar 182026Earning or Learning
In every job, be learning or earning. Ideally both. Leave if it's neither.
- Mar 102026Business Leader's Brief: The Personal AI Agent Explosion
250,000 developers are building infrastructure for always-on AI agents following breakthroughs in model reasoning and tool use.
- Mar 032026Why health AI is a context problem
Intelligence isn't the bottleneck. The context a model has, about you, your history, your goals, is.
- Feb 142026The hidden cost of GLP-1s on sleep, 5 years of data
What the scale gained, the Oura ring gave back. An n=1 I wish someone had done for me before I started.
- Jan 272026Vibe-coding my dream health tracker
One weekend, one Apple Health export, and a dashboard I actually want to open.
- Jan 092026Use AI aggressively for cognition; conservatively for action.
A heuristic that's held up across teams and tools. The cheap experiments are in thinking; the expensive ones are in doing.
- Dec 122025Being the CEO of my health, what I track
The dashboard, the metrics, the reasoning, and the handful of things I've stopped tracking because they weren't changing behavior.
- Nov 202025Six months in the fog, identity and setbacks with obesity
The psychological half of metabolic disease that nobody writes a protocol for.
- Oct 042025South Asians and cardiometabolic disease risk
Why the default guidelines underserve 1.9B people, and what I've changed as a result.
- Aug 222025People don't quit decisions. They quit how decisions are made.
Notes from a founder who learned this the expensive way.
- 2018Modern data architecture, the deconstructed database
How the monolithic database pulled itself apart into the data stack we now take for granted.
- 2016Streaming systems and architectures
A survey of the streaming landscape, ca. the moment it stopped being exotic.
- Founders, on product, early-stage GTM, and company building.
- Organizations, on AI transformation and adoption.