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title: "Manan Kapila - Senior Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manan Kapila, Senior Engineer @ Target | Distributed Systems | Java | AI Enthusiast based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes codex, cursor, and opencode."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/manan-kapila/share-image"
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# Manan Kapila on Tal

## Headline

Senior Engineer @ Target \| Distributed Systems \| Java \| AI Enthusiast

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

codex

cursor

opencode

## Work experience

Senior Engineer at Target, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Designed a distributed feature\-engineering platform using Spring Boot, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, and Elasticsearch to process 100M\+ events/day, driving $70M annual business impact\. \- Built a full\-stack workflow automation application using Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and React, saving users \~20 hours per week\. \- Re\-architected 6 related microservices into a unified service, simplifying deployment and improving maintainability\. \- Led cross\-team standardization of Kafka event contracts across 15 services, simplifying downstream integrations and enabling loose coupling\.

Engineer at Target, Aug 2022 \- Jul 2025 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Developed a Kafka\-driven orchestration service handling up to 120K parallel API calls for markdown forecasting\. \- Built an automated data recovery service, reducing weekend on\-call effort by 37% \(\~6 hours/week\)\. \- Developed SpringBoot based event driven pipeline to send markdown/discount override data to downstream systems\. \- Built centralized dependency management for 70\+ Java/Kotlin repositories, simplifying Spring Boot, JDK, and JUnit upgrades\. \- Contributed in the migration from mainframe system to modern platform using open source technologies like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, Ceph in microservice pattern for higher reliability and performance\.

Software Intern at Siemens EDA \(Siemens Digital Industries Software\), Jan 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Delhi Public School \- India

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