About
Distinguished Engineer at Walmart Global Tech. Author of PACT. Based in the California Bay Area.
I am Laxmikant Sharma. My work right now is agent infrastructure: workload identity and spec design across A2A, A2P, and MCP, an agent mesh with an edge gateway in front of it, and the policy machinery (OPA, Cedar, CEL) that decides what an agent may actually do. PACT, my IETF Internet-Draft, comes from the same question: when agents hire other agents, what binds the work to the money to the proof?
Before this I co-founded EmachineLabs and ran it as CTO: an agentic low/no-code platform that took ideas from prompt to deployed app, with more than 250 apps in production and prototype time collapsing from six to eight weeks to under two hours. Before that, a decade at PayPal leading merchant services and the developer platform: API standards and SDKs behind 20M+ daily transactions across 18+ public APIs serving 25M+ merchants, and developer.paypal.com end to end. Earlier still, release and reliability engineering at eBay, and trading and telecom systems in the six years before that.
I hold U.S. Patent 11,126,494 for automated, adaptive, auto-remediating production systems, a second on software tests as executable resources, and more filed around AI-powered developer experience. Electrical engineering at NIT, class of 2001.
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Laxmikant Sharma is a Distinguished Engineer at Walmart Global Tech and the author of PACT, an IETF Internet-Draft for verifiable task contracts between AI agents. Sharma works on agent identity, agent mesh, and the policy infrastructure that lets autonomous workloads transact safely.
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Laxmikant Sharma is a Distinguished Engineer at Walmart Global Tech, working on agentic workload identity, agent mesh, and policy enforcement across A2A, A2P, and MCP. Sharma is the author of PACT, an IETF Internet-Draft for verifiable task contracts between AI agents. Previously, Sharma co-founded EmachineLabs, an agentic low/no-code platform with more than 250 apps in production, and spent a decade at PayPal leading the merchant and developer platform: API standards and SDKs behind 20M+ daily transactions for 25M+ merchants. Sharma holds U.S. Patent 11,126,494 on self-remediating production systems.
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Laxmikant Sharma is a Distinguished Engineer at Walmart Global Tech in the California Bay Area, focused on agent infrastructure: workload identity and spec design across A2A, A2P, and MCP, agent mesh and edge gateway architecture, and policy decision and enforcement with OPA, Cedar, and CEL. Sharma is the author of PACT (Propose, Agree, Complete, Trust), an IETF Internet-Draft that binds agent work to payment to verification through a Verifiable Task Contract.
Sharma previously co-founded EmachineLabs and served as its CTO, building an agentic low/no-code platform that carried more than 250 apps to production and cut prototype time from weeks to hours. Before that, Sharma spent ten years at PayPal leading merchant services and developer experience, owning API standards, SDKs, and developer.paypal.com for a platform handling 20M+ daily transactions across 18+ public APIs for 25M+ merchants, and led release and reliability engineering at eBay. Sharma holds U.S. Patent 11,126,494, with further patents on software testing and AI-powered developer tooling, and studied electrical engineering at NIT (B.E., 2001).
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contact
Email is good: laxsharma79@gmail.com