Amirul Islam is riding the wave of change sweeping through India’s software services industry—a wave that threatens to cast many of his peers adrift.

Freshly graduated from one of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Information Technology, Islam joined Infosys Ltd.

in 2022 as one of the tens of thousands of code jockeys the tech giant recruits each year.

Today the 26-year-old heads a team reporting directly to the company’s chief technology officer; it’s tasked with designing software that works with AI agents, robotics and vision systems.

The group’s newest creation:....