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title: "Manav Saraf - Platform Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manav Saraf, Platform Engineer @ SAP | Distributed Systems | Building with LLMs, RAG & AI Agents | IIT Roorkee based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, github copilot, and mcp. Explore public work links including github."
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# Manav Saraf on Tal

## Headline

Platform Engineer @ SAP \| Distributed Systems \| Building with LLMs, RAG & AI Agents \| IIT Roorkee

## About

Software Developer with 2\.5\+ years of experience building and owning distributed storage and control\-plane systems in production\. Experienced in leading feature development, collaborating across teams, and delivering reliable multi\-cloud services at scale\. Interested in applying AI/ML to improve system intelligence, observability, and automation\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

github copilot

mcp

claudecode

githubcopilot

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Platform Engineer at SAP, Apr 2026 \- Present · 5 mos

Associate Platform Engineer at SAP, Jul 2023 \- Apr 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Additional Secretary at Artificial Intelligence and Electronics Society \(ArIES\), May 2022 \- Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, Mentored freshmen of IIT Roorkee in projects like Smart TV Controller and Hindi News OCR\. Coordinated workshops on OpenCV, introduction talks for freshmen of IIT Roorkee\.

Software Engineer Intern at Samsung Research and Development Institute, Delhi, May 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Delhi, India, Built a Device Inventory Management application for tracking device\(TV Panel, Monitors etc\.\) ownership, working condition etc\. Specifically worked on Django REST Framework for backend operations\.

Academic Mentor at Unacademy, Feb 2021 \- May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Provided one\-to\-one mentorship motivation and study plan sessions to IIT\-JEE Aspirants through video and audio calls\.

Core Team Member at Vision and Language Group, Jan 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 1 yr, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, Worked on various Computer Vision Techniques like Energy\-based Models, GANs, and Semantic Segmentation\. Held and actively participated in open lectures and discussions on state of the art techniques in Deep Learning\.

Core Team Member at Artificial Intelligence and Electronics Society \(ArIES\), Sep 2020 \- May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, On\-site, Worked on communication between Local Server and its clients using OpenSSH for AUVSI \- SUAS Competition

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Intermediate, Nalanda Academy, Kota, Rajasthan

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/manavsaraf1

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