Softmax · Nov 2025 to Apr 2026
MCP servers, Claude Code plugins and agent tooling
AI Platform Engineer (Contract)
At Softmax I built the Claude Code plugins and MCP tool harnesses that let engineers hand real work to agents, and the platform pieces that keep agent workloads observable and reliable. It all fed into Metta AI, an open-source multi-agent reinforcement-learning platform.
- skills across 6 plugins
- 86
- commits to Metta AI
- 1,180+
- table PostgreSQL data layer
- 21
The problem
Agents are only as useful as the tools they can call and the guardrails around them. The team needed agents that could do real engineering work (reviewing PRs, generating code, editing many files at once) and a platform that showed what those agents and training jobs were actually doing.
Approach
- Built and maintained Claude Code plugins, 86 skills across 6 plugins, for the engineering team.
- Built MCP tool harnesses that power AI-assisted workflows: autonomous PR review, code generation and multi-file editing across the org.
- Built a tournament system with daily reporting cronjobs, error-log surfacing and diagnostic scoring to evaluate multi-agent RL policies.
Architecture
- Observability pipeline on Datadog and OpenTelemetry (OTLP receivers, structured collectors) that replaced legacy monitoring.
- A Kubernetes watcher service for AI job lifecycle orchestration, with automated failure classification (timeout, OOM, policy error), stuck-job reconciliation and keep-main-green CI.
- Terraform for AWS (Lambda, Secrets Manager, IAM) behind the GitHub webhook integrations and deploy pipelines.
- A 21-table PostgreSQL schema with Alembic migrations and pre-deploy Helm jobs for zero-downtime releases.
Results
- Agents took on PR review, code generation and multi-file edits for the engineering team.
- Job failures were classified automatically and stuck jobs reconciled without manual work.
- 1,180+ commits shipped to the open-source Metta AI platform.
Stack
- Claude Code
- Model Context Protocol
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- Terraform
- PostgreSQL
More case studies
- Climb Together · May 2025 to presentGoldi: a production AI career coach for 100K+ usersHow Akshay Kalapgar built Goldi at Climb Together: a Claude-powered career coaching agent with tool calling, voice and SMS that reached 100K+ users.Read the Goldi case study
- Wingline · In public betaWingline: an AI texting assistant in the iPhone keyboardWingline, built by Akshay Kalapgar: an iPhone keyboard that writes replies, polishes drafts and drafts dating openers with on-device Apple Intelligence.Read the Wingline case study
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