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title: "Manikaran Kathuria - Software Engineer in Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Manikaran Kathuria, Software Engineer Ambient.ai | Ex- Hotstar | Freelance Software Engineer | IITD based in Delhi. AI stack includes langchain, claudecode, and Make."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/manikaran-kathuria/share-image"
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# Manikaran Kathuria on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer Ambient\.ai \| Ex\- Hotstar \| Freelance Software Engineer \| IITD

## About

A start up enthusiast\. Working as Data Platform engineer\. Love to learn distributed systems and solving complex problems\.

## Location

Delhi

## AI stack

langchain

claudecode

Make

OpenAI Agents SDK

Qdrant

Supabase

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Ambient\.ai, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, India

Senior Software Development Engineer\-1 at Disney\+ Hotstar, Jul 2022 \- Mar 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Software Development Engineer\-2 at Disney\+ Hotstar, Jul 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 1 yr, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Data Engineer at Shuttl, Feb 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Technologist at Alphonso Inc\., Jul 2019 \- Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Alphonso is a TV data company\. I have worked on the following projects during my employment\- 1\. Monitoring different datasets on the daily basis\. 2\. Created an automated google sheet based dashboard to display daily/monthly stats of different datasets\. 3\. Managed data pipelines 4\. Came up with logics to determine different kind of outliers based on the user behaviour, thereby improving the data quality by flagging the outlier TVs in the data\. 5\. Time series based analysis of the stats generated to determine if there is any issue in pipeline or if there is any trending show aired on any particular day\.

Android Developer at Self Employed, Feb 2019 \- Apr 2019 · 3 mos, New Delhi Area, India, I developed and published an android app of IPL 2019 on play store with the package name com\.mk\.ipl2019\. App contains Latest news, IPL Facts, Player Stats, Live Score etc\.

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Hansraj college, Delhi university

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