Manasa SB on Tal
Headline
Forward Deployed / AI Solutions Engineer | LLM, GenAI, MCP, RAG, AI Agents, Evals | Ex-CRED | Turning hard technical + AI problems into working solutions for customers
About
Forward Deployed Engineer | AI Solutions | Developer Tools | Automation | Customer Engineering I build software that solves real customer problems. Over the last 4+ years, I've worked at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer impact—designing automation frameworks, debugging complex production issues, improving developer workflows, and building AI-powered tools that reduce engineering effort. My experience spans frontend automation, release engineering, AI evaluation, developer productivity, and workflow automation Backend/Mobile testing. I enjoy understanding how customers work, identifying bottlenecks, and rapidly building technical solutions that improve reliability, developer experience, and business outcomes. I thrive in ambiguous environments where the problem isn't clearly defined. Whether it's investigating production issues, working with developers to reproduce bugs, designing automation systems, or building AI agents, I enjoy owning problems from discovery to deployment. AI skills: AI Agents | Large Language Models (LLMs) | MCP | Prompt Engineering | AI Evaluation Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | LangChain | Agentic Workflows | Embeddings Vector Databases | AI Automation | Fine-tuning | LlamaIndex | Pydantic AI Backend FastAPI | Flask | REST APIs | Webhooks | Authentication | OAuth | JWT | GraphQL Cloud AWS | Docker | Kubernetes | GitHub Actions | Jenkins | CI/CD | Google Cloud Platform Databases PostgreSQL | Pinecone | Redis AI Evaluation & Monitoring LangSmith | OpenAI Evals | DeepEval | Ragas | Promptfoo Observability Datadog | Grafana | Firebase | Mixpanel | Charles Proxy | OpenTelemetry | Prometheus | Sentry | Coralogix Mobile & API Android | iOS | Appium | XCUITest | Meastro | Playwright | Rest Assured | Charles Developer Experience API Debugging | Performance Analysis | Root Cause Analysis | Release Engineering | Incident Investigation | Automation | Internal Tooling Soft Skills Customer Communication | Technical Discovery | Solution Design | Product Thinking | Stakeholder Management | Cross-functional Collaboration | Technical Writing | Documentation | Requirements Gathering | Problem Solving
Location
Greater Bengaluru Area
AI stack
claude code
hugging face
langgraph
langsmith
mcp
Guardrails AI
Work experience
FDE- Agentic AI at Actively looking, Sep 2026 - Present · 1 mo, BLR
Software Engineer & AI Automation at CRED, Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Engineered internal tooling and automation across CRED's FinTech, payments, and travel products, working embedded with product and engineering teams — from AI agents to backend and mobile automation frameworks. • Built and shipped internal AI agents end-to-end: a Jira→Slack bot delivering real-time status updates, and a Slack→Jira bot that auto-raises tickets from Slack — cutting manual triage overhead for engineering teams • Developed backend automation for notification delivery using REST Assured against production APIs, and automated database validation by writing SQL query pipelines for payment and notification flows • Built cross-platform mobile automation with Appium, TestNG, and Maven — including a single automated flow running across both Android and iOS via KMM • Engineered voice-based automation for the app's login flow • Owned end-to-end reliability of mobile features, analyzing crash logs to root-cause production issues and routing them to the right teams • Partnered directly with developers on system design and requirement reviews, translating product intent into working technical solutions • Mentored junior engineers on automation, code review, and onboarding
Freelance AI Automation Engineer at Freelancer.com, Apr 2026 - Jun 2026 · 3 mos, Bengaluru
Software Engineer Intern at CRED, Jan 2022 - Aug 2022 · 8 mos, Bangalore Urban
Back End Developer at Capgemini, Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 · 7 mos, Bengaluru
Education
Startup School Learning(curriculum), Startup, Y Combinator
Postgraduate Degree( Remote), Artificial Intelligence, Purdue University
Public links
github: https://github.com/manasasb2000
