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title: "Manish Kumar - Senior Platform Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manish Kumar, Senior Platform @ Mercari | Platform / Web / Cloud / SWE / SRE based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, ollama, and openai. Explore public work links including github, medium, and manishk.dev."
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# Manish Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Senior Platform @ Mercari \| Platform / Web / Cloud / SWE / SRE

## About

As a Software Engineer at Mercari, Inc\., I leverage my expertise in cloud agnostic infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Kustomize to build scalable and efficient web platforms\. I have also developed multiple systems for an efficient developer workflow, from coding to deployments and monitoring\. Additionally, I have acted as an architect and tech lead of a team of 7 people, ensuring good quality code and product development\. Prior to joining Mercari, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Innovapptive Inc, where I built a new cloud agnostic infrastructure for the company's primary product\. I also developed internal tools that saved the company over $100k in third party costs\. I am passionate about learning new technologies and improving processes to enhance developer experience\. I hold a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from ABV\-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

ollama

openai

opencode

## Work experience

Senior Platform Engineer at Mercari, Inc\., Aug 2026 \- Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Platform Engineer at Mercari, Inc\., Feb 2026 \- Aug 2026 · 7 mos, Tokyo, Japan

Platform Engineer at Mercari, Inc\., Oct 2024 \- Feb 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos, Tokyo, Japan

Senior Software Engineer at Innovapptive Inc, May 2024 \- Aug 2024 · 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, \- Worked on building a completely new cloud agnostic infrastructure for the company's primary product using Kubernetes and Kustomize \- Developed multiple systems in place for an efficient developer workflow from coding to deployments and monitoring \- Acted as an architect and a tech lead of team of 7 people ensuring good quality code and product development \- Developed multiple internal tools for the company like Internal Wiki, API Documentation and infrastructure tooling, saving $100k\+ in third party costs

Platform Engineering Intern at Mercari, Inc\., Feb 2024 \- Apr 2024 · 3 mos, Tokyo, Japan, \- Worked with a diverse team with people from 18\+ countries from company's main office at Tokyo, Japan \- Implemented Signin in Passkey button on Cross Platform authentication screen for the platform, currently serving 1 million plus MAUs\. \- Enabled and optimised various features and improvements in internal CI/CD and platform tooling for the betterment of Developer Experience\(DX\) within the company \- Created as well as fixed a few production affecting incidents as well \- Developed a Proof of Concept for internal developer portal for the company from scratch with aim to serve 2000\+ developers within the company \- Deployed an internal standalone system using Kubernetes, Terraform and Spinnaker

Founding Engineer at Blaze AI \(YC W22\), Mar 2022 \- Nov 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Deployed and Managed 4\+ Staging and Production Clusters using AWS ECS \- Setup 10\+ deployment lifecycle and CI/CD pipelines for various micro\-services and applications on AWS Lambda, AWS EC2 and AWS ECS using Github Actions and Bash Scripts \- Setup data processing pipelines using Apache Airflow \- Worked on reducing the latency of queries by more than 90% by migrating the system to Snowflake

Technical Consultant at Maalexi, Aug 2021 \- May 2022 · 10 mos, Delaware, United States

Full Stack Web Developer at Maalexi, Aug 2020 \- Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Lisbon, Portugal, \- Led the development and infrastructure of the current marketplace website \- Integrated various payment platforms \(Stripe, Escrow\.com, TazaPay\) in the website facilitating online transactions •Co\-managed the cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS ECS, CloudWatch, EC2, Docker and Vercel \- Setup multiple CI/CD pipelines using Bash and Gitlab CI

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Information Technology, ABV\-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management

Senior Secondary, PCM, St\. Karen's High School

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/manishprivet
- medium: https://medium\.com/@manishprivet
- manishk\.dev: https://manishk\.dev/

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