Abhinav BansalThe Tech Plumber

The Tech Plumber

Wherever engineering leaks, I go in, then build the team and the tools so it stays fixed. Test automation, then modernization at scale, now AI agents.

Vice President at Morgan Stanley, leading engineering teams. Based in Glasgow.

Hi, I'm Pip, the site's plumber droid.

Abhinav fixes engineering leaks, then builds the tools that keep them fixed.

Where do you want to start?

10 yrs

From test automation to agentic AI

45%

Fewer production incidents

5+

Engineering teams led through modernization

20k

Users on DollarsGPT, founded at university

Now

Leading agentic AI adoption at Morgan Stanley in Glasgow, and building open source agent tools on the side.

Public commits in 2026
132
Open source repositories
21

Live from GitHub and PyPI, rebuilt every night. Last updated .

Leaks I fix

Ten years in 40 seconds. The film is silent; the work page has the same timeline in text.
open source
  • tidy python package

    Cleans up Gmail and YouTube subscriptions with AI without letting AI loose on your account.

  • ai-workbench claude code skill

    A Claude Code skill that sets up a matching matrix-green and cyber-purple dev environment on Linux: prompt, terminal, editor, diffs and status line.

  • awesome-copilot-toolkit vs code extension

    A VS Code extension to browse and install custom instructions, prompts and chat modes from the github/awesome-copilot repository without leaving the editor.

  • macify shell script

    Makes Ubuntu GNOME look like macOS in one command, with a one-command revert.

Details for each project

The console

The same profile, for people who prefer a prompt. Type help or tap a command. It is the front end for the AI agent coming next, which will answer questions about my work from this site's data.

Consoleabhinav@portfolio: ~

$ help

commands: whoami, plumber, projects, experience, patent, writing, contact, sudo rm -rf /, clear, speaking, cv, crawl, pip, tidy, ai-workbench, awesome-copilot-toolkit, macify

A long time ago, in a bank far, far away....

Episode X

The Agentic Awakening

It is a period of manual testing. From a university hostel, a young founder has launched DollarsGPT, rallying 20,000 users to the cause.

Joining the Infosys and Morgan Stanley fleets, our engineer forges test frameworks, co-invents the BLAZE engine, and brings DevOps to the galaxy, cutting production incidents by 45%.

For five years the Plumber answers every call, modernizing systems across the fleet and handing each team cookie-cutter tools so no leak returns.

Now, as the agents rise, Abhinav leads the mission to bring them safely into production. Somewhere in the Glasgow system, the next agent is already being built....

speaking

Getting agents past the change board

And 2 more talk topics.