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title: "Manik Aggarwal - Co-Founder in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manik Aggarwal, Co-Founder CORE - Build your personal AI butler | Y Combinator based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/manik-aggarwal/share-image"
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# Manik Aggarwal on Tal

## Headline

Co\-Founder CORE \- Build your personal AI butler \| Y Combinator

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

mastra

obsidian

railway

## Work experience

Co\-Founder at CORE \(YC S23\), Jan 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Product Manager at Velocity, May 2021 \- Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Data Scientist at American Express, Sep 2020 \- May 2021 · 9 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Data Scientist at American Express, Jun 2018 \- Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Gurgaon, India

Trading Analyst at Indian School of Business, May 2017 \- Jul 2017 · 3 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, • Implemented various alpha\-driven trading strategies on seminal research papers and developed algorithm models in Python • Formulated long\-short strategies to achieve outstanding results of 20\.3% \(F\-Score\), 13\.22% \(G\-Score\), 26\.77% \(Momentum\) • Performed sentiment analysis on NIFTY 100 companies using McDonald financial dictionary; generated return of 11\.03%

Summer Research Intern at Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt\. Ltd, May 2016 \- Jul 2016 · 3 mos, Patparganj, •Studied the supply chain of poly packed milk from the production till the consumer end in plant and market visits •Identified the key problems leading to temperature abuse in the dispatch area by monitoring temperatures •Devised cost\-effective solutions to bring down the temperature of an insulated van within the specifications •Made a road map to implement the solution in the dispatch area after coordinating with the Logistics Head •Conceptualized and proposed the automation of the dispatch area so as to further reduce the temperature abuse

## Education

Y Combinator

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\) \+ \(M\.Tech\) \- Dual Degree, Agriculture and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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