Sarat Mahavratayajula

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Sarat Mahavratayajula is a Senior Software Engineer at Sherwin-Williams specializing in enterprise cloud platforms and scalable distributed systems. He focuses on building high-impact, real-world software solutions and has published work in IEEE venues.

When Claude changed, everything changed: Managing AI blast radius in production

LLM upgrades caused unexpected failures in API calls, revealing the infinite blast radius of changes and the critical role of evals in bounding impacts.

Sarat Mahavratayajula ,Vijay Sagar Gullapalli

June 8, 2026