Hi, I'm Tisha.
I build data platform infrastructure at Microsoft, in Commerce and Ecosystems: large-scale analytics, and the agent systems that run on top of it. I work in open source on agent infrastructure, as co-creator of The Agent Plane. In October I join MPI-SWS as a research fellow.
Building
Open-source infrastructure for running agents reliably, co-created and built in the open under The Agent Plane.
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TokenOps
Run-aware token governance for multi-agent systems. Enforces one budget across a whole workflow rather than per call, so a runaway agent stops before the invoice arrives.
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Chronicle
Record-and-replay for agent decision graphs. Turns a production agent failure into a committed regression test, then re-runs your fix without live model calls.
Talks
I speak about agent reliability, cost, and reproducibility at engineering conferences and inside Microsoft.
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Debugging the Agent That Refuses to Fail the Same Way Twice
Capturing every non-deterministic input to an agent loop in an append-only execution log, replaying a failed run step by step, and turning that replay into a reproducible eval.
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FinOps for AI Agents: Who Spent All the Tokens?
Where agent spend actually goes, how to make it visible, and how to design agents that stay economical as they scale.
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Your Agent Failed in Prod. Good Luck Reproducing It.
Why non-determinism makes agent failures so hard to chase, and what it takes to make a production incident reproducible on a laptop.
Research
Peer-reviewed applied machine learning and network measurement, co-authored with collaborators at NUS, UNSW, RIT, VIT and Deakin.
- ESPRESSO: Advanced End-to-End Flow Correlation Attacks on Tor
- SYN-GAN: A robust intrusion detection system using GAN-based synthetic data for IoT security
- You Must Be a Trump Supporter: Political identity projections on the social web
Writing
Long-form on the hard parts of agent engineering: memory, cost, reproducibility, and structure.
- Did Your AI Agent Quietly Blow All Your Money?
- Debugging Multi-Agent Systems: Your Trace Tree Is Lying
- 40% of AI Agent Projects Will Be Canceled by 2027. Token Governance Is How You Avoid It.
Awards
- EC Excellence Award
- EC Learn It All Award
- Raman Research Award
- Women Engineers Scholar
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life” (1838)
Contact
Speaking invitations, collaborations, or just to say hi. Email is the surest way to reach me, or book a time directly.