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title: "Akhil Mankala - Software Engineer (SDE 2) in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Akhil Mankala, Building Scalable Products based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and n8n."
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# Akhil Mankala on Tal

## Headline

Building Scalable Products

## About

"𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮\. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵\." With 8\+ years across Amazon operations, startup BD, and enterprise SaaS engineering, and nearly 4 years of actually shipping the products I now want to manage\. I speak Developer and Stakeholder fluently — not because I read about both, but because I've lived both\. I've reconciled vendor payments end\-to\-end, built a product catalog from scratch, and shipped APIs and integrations that enterprise customers depend on daily\. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱: 🔹 Resolved ₹20M in Price Purchase Variance and drove a 93% reduction in variance rate \(6\.01% → 0\.41%\) across 224 vendors and 9 cities at Amazon — earning an Exceeds performance rating 🔹 Shipped 782 PRs across 24 codebases at Codebees and AppDirect, resolving 340\+ production issues and leading 7\+ cross\-repository product initiatives on an enterprise telecom SaaS platform 🔹 Built the product catalog and ran seasonal campaigns from scratch at UrbanKisaan, working directly with the CEO — and made the call to not scale a B2B model after feasibility research showed it wasn't viable 🔹 Shipped live AI products independently: an AI shopping agent with a full RAG pipeline, an AI\-native wedding planning platform, and a travel safety app — while directing 89\.5% AI\-assisted code through Cursor since December 2025 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻: Completed my PM Fellowship at ProductSpace \(Cohort 27\) — writing PRDs, running product sprints, and shipping live products end\-to\-end\. Based in Hyderabad\. Open to Bangalore, Chennai and remote\. Targeting Product Management roles\. — I'm always open to a good conversation\. 📧 iamakhilmankala@gmail\.com

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

n8n

notebooklm

Figma Make

Wispr Flow

## Work experience

Software Engineer \(SDE 2\) at AppDirect, Nov 2025 \- Present · 1 yr, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Software Engineer II at Codebees Technologies Private Limited, Jun 2022 \- Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Business Development Lead at UrbanKisaan, Dec 2021 \- May 2022 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Senior Business Operations Lead at Amazon, Aug 2019 \- Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Business Operations Associate at Amazon, Aug 2018 \- Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Master's Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management, Texas A&M University\-Kingsville

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad \(JNTUH\)

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