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title: "Manasa SB - FDE- Agentic AI in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Manasa SB, Forward Deployed / AI Solutions Engineer | LLM, GenAI, MCP, RAG, AI Agents, Evals | Ex-CRED | Turning hard technical + AI problems into working solutions for customers based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, hugging face, and langgraph. Explore public work li..."
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# 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

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