Pravin Kumarappan is a Principal AI Architect at Xcel Energy, focused on enterprise AI architecture and strategy. His work includes building the capabilities needed to support AI at enterprise scale, including an AI gateway, agent registry and marketplace, runtime security, and observability. He also helps design end-to-end architectures for agentic AI solutions, connecting AI models and agents with enterprise data, applications, tools, and business processes. Pravin has previous experience across software engineering, data engineering, and data science, which shapes his approach to enterprise AI. He works closely with business, technology, security, and AI governance teams to help establish a consistent approach to enterprise AI. This includes making sure AI solutions are assigned an appropriate risk category and designed with the required controls, while also establishing the capabilities needed to monitor and manage AI in production. His focus is on making AI practical to deploy and scale across the enterprise while maintaining the right level of security and governance.