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title: "Manjunath R - Staff SDET in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manjunath R, Staff SDET - AI & Engineering Productivity | AI Agents | Developer Tooling | Automation | CI/CD based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex."
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# Manjunath R on Tal

## Headline

Staff SDET \- AI & Engineering Productivity \| AI Agents \| Developer Tooling \| Automation \| CI/CD

## About

I build AI\-native engineering systems — AI agents that act as real participants across the software development lifecycle, not just coding assistants\. My focus is AI Engineering & Engineering Productivity \- using LLMs and Context Engineering to build agents that plan, review code, raise bug\-fix PRs, build new features, generate & execute tests, and validate releases\. The goal is simple — give engineering teams more velocity and higher confidence to ship\. At Pocket FM, I built Phantom — a multi\-agent AI system that works alongside engineers across the full development cycle: • Reviews code and pull requests — surfacing correctness, contract and production\-risk issues before they ship\. • Fixes and builds — raises bug\-fix pull requests and helps build new features end to end\. • Tests and validates — generates and executes tests and validates releases, which helped cut our release cycle from 3 days to 1\. What I care about is building reusable engineering platforms — production\-grade systems with the runtime guardrails that make an AI safe enough to touch production code\. Getting AI to that level of trust is the hard part and it's the problem I most enjoy solving\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

deepseek

langchain

langgraph

## Work experience

Staff SDET at Pocket FM, May 2026 \- Present · 6 mos

Lead SDET at Pocket FM, Nov 2024 \- May 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru

Software Engineer in Test at PhonePe, Nov 2022 \- Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru

SDET 2 at Glance, May 2021 \- Nov 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Glance is part of InMobi group

Member of Technical Staff at Vmware Software India Pvt Ltd, Aug 2018 \- Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, •Developed mobile automation framework using Espresso and Kotlin for UI testing •Tested and automated newly onboarded features of Workspace One Web app \(MDM based Enterprise browser app\) •Automated the backend REST service layer using REST Assured\.

Automation Engineer at Rakuten India Enterprise Pvt Ltd, Sep 2017 \- Aug 2018 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India, •Developed TestNG framework for automating both Android and iOS applications •Developed Appium framework to capture performance details like CPU, Memory, Battery and Time consumed for the actions done on the app •Developed Appium jar to run Appium scripts programatically on the specific connected device based on the given parameter\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Mechanical Engineering, UVCE

Diploma, Sri Jayachamarajendra \(govt\) Polytechnic

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