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Muniyappan Mani

Lead Software Engineer @iamneo | Building AI Voice Agents for Hiring | Ex-Freshworks

Chennai

8+ years of work experience

iamneo - An NIIT Venture
Oct 202511 mosPresent

Chennai

Leading AI engineering and platform architecture at Iamneo — full end-to-end ownership of NeoHire (AI-native enterprise hiring), and leading the legacy-stack revamp on Platform 2.0, Iamneo's shared execution and assessment engine. Focused on real-time conversational AI voice agents, secure code execution, and high-scale, low-latency hiring infrastructure across AWS EKS, FastAPI, and LLM-powered workflows. 1. Designed and shipped an in-house real-time AI voice agent for automated interviews — a streaming STT → LLM → TTS pipeline (AssemblyAI streaming speech-to-text, Kokoro neural TTS, Azure OpenAI) — replacing a costly third-party voice stack and cutting latency and per-session cost. 2. Built the AI Interview experience for NeoHire: low-latency, natural-turn conversational interviewing with real-time audio capture and transcript-grounded evaluation. 3. Built the AI mock-interview pipeline for NeoPAT (campus placement & training) — realistic, company-style interview practice at scale — and transitioned it to a dedicated team for ongoing ownership. 4. Engineered the real-time conferencing layer for live interviews; migrated Jitsi → 100ms for ~70% infrastructure cost reduction. 5. Built a secure, isolated code execution sandbox supporting multiple languages on AWS EKS. Focused on security hardening and resource efficiency, resulting in 20–25% lower compute costs using Karpenter + KEDA. 6. Lead and mentor a small engineering team across the AI/voice, compiler, and analytics tracks; own architecture, delivery, and technical standards. Tech: Python, FastAPI, AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Karpenter, KEDA, AssemblyAI, Kokoro TTS, Azure OpenAI, Real-time Audio Streaming (STT/TTS), PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse.
iamneo - An NIIT Venture
Feb 20258 mosSep 2025

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Led backend and AI engineering for NeoHire, iamneo’s multi-tenant ATS built for scale and enterprise-grade hiring.Focused on system performance, distributed workflow orchestration, and AI-driven process automation. 1. Designed and shipped scalable APIs and async pipelines with FastAPI, Celery, and GKE, handling high-volume candidate data. 2. Built LLM-driven evaluation systems using AutoGen and multi-agent orchestration, automating JD parsing, skill extraction, and scoring. 3. Implemented real-time insights and analytics pipelines with ClickHouse for recruiter dashboards and hiring metrics. 4. Optimized infra footprint with autoscaling, Redis caching, and observability hooks for latency and throughput monitoring.
Freshworks
Apr 20222 yrs 11 mosFeb 2025

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Freshworks
Mar 20202 yrs 1 moMar 2022

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Working as a Software Engineer in the StratOps team. Responsible for developing new applications and integrating existing business applications in CRM, CXG and PRM domains.
Freshworks
Aug 20197 mosFeb 2020

Chennai Area, India

Have been a part of developing and maintaining the business application and building the business context for features to drive better customer experience.
Rotaract District 3201
Jul 20182 yrs 5 mosNov 2020

Coimbatore

GitHub
@muni-iamneo

Muniyappan’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
elevenlabs
elevenlabs
mcp
mcp
AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI
AutoGen
AutoGen
Together AI
Together AI

Education

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

20154 yrs2019

Computer Science

SSV Higher Secondary School

20132 yrs2015

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Headline

Lead Software Engineer @iamneo | Building AI Voice Agents for Hiring | Ex-Freshworks

About

👋🏻 I’m Muni, a backend engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable, AI-native systems that drive real business impact. I design and ship production-grade APIs, high-performance microservices, and intelligent backends powered by agentic AI and multi-agent architectures. My core stack includes FastAPI, Python, and Django, with hands-on experience in LangChain, vector databases, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agent orchestration. Currently, I’m building a voice AI platform that combines real-time speech processing, intelligent agents, and natural conversation flows to deliver seamless voice-first experiences. On the infrastructure side, I specialize in system design, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Kubernetes focusing on scalable architectures and cost-efficient cloud operations. I focus on delivering products, not just systems translating complex AI capabilities into reliable, production-ready solutions with real-world impact.

Location

Chennai

AI stack

claude code

elevenlabs

mcp

AssemblyAI

AutoGen

Together AI

Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at iamneo - An NIIT Venture, Oct 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Chennai, Leading AI engineering and platform architecture at Iamneo — full end-to-end ownership of NeoHire (AI-native enterprise hiring), and leading the legacy-stack revamp on Platform 2.0, Iamneo's shared execution and assessment engine. Focused on real-time conversational AI voice agents, secure code execution, and high-scale, low-latency hiring infrastructure across AWS EKS, FastAPI, and LLM-powered workflows. 1. Designed and shipped an in-house real-time AI voice agent for automated interviews — a streaming STT → LLM → TTS pipeline (AssemblyAI streaming speech-to-text, Kokoro neural TTS, Azure OpenAI) — replacing a costly third-party voice stack and cutting latency and per-session cost. 2. Built the AI Interview experience for NeoHire: low-latency, natural-turn conversational interviewing with real-time audio capture and transcript-grounded evaluation. 3. Built the AI mock-interview pipeline for NeoPAT (campus placement & training) — realistic, company-style interview practice at scale — and transitioned it to a dedicated team for ongoing ownership. 4. Engineered the real-time conferencing layer for live interviews; migrated Jitsi → 100ms for ~70% infrastructure cost reduction. 5. Built a secure, isolated code execution sandbox supporting multiple languages on AWS EKS. Focused on security hardening and resource efficiency, resulting in 20–25% lower compute costs using Karpenter + KEDA. 6. Lead and mentor a small engineering team across the AI/voice, compiler, and analytics tracks; own architecture, delivery, and technical standards. Tech: Python, FastAPI, AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Karpenter, KEDA, AssemblyAI, Kokoro TTS, Azure OpenAI, Real-time Audio Streaming (STT/TTS), PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse.

Senior Software Engineer at iamneo - An NIIT Venture, Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 · 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Led backend and AI engineering for NeoHire, iamneo’s multi-tenant ATS built for scale and enterprise-grade hiring.Focused on system performance, distributed workflow orchestration, and AI-driven process automation. 1. Designed and shipped scalable APIs and async pipelines with FastAPI, Celery, and GKE, handling high-volume candidate data. 2. Built LLM-driven evaluation systems using AutoGen and multi-agent orchestration, automating JD parsing, skill extraction, and scoring. 3. Implemented real-time insights and analytics pipelines with ClickHouse for recruiter dashboards and hiring metrics. 4. Optimized infra footprint with autoscaling, Redis caching, and observability hooks for latency and throughput monitoring.

Senior Software Engineer at Freshworks, Apr 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Software Engineer at Freshworks, Mar 2020 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Working as a Software Engineer in the StratOps team. Responsible for developing new applications and integrating existing business applications in CRM, CXG and PRM domains.

Information Technology Analyst at Freshworks, Aug 2019 - Feb 2020 · 7 mos, Chennai Area, India, Have been a part of developing and maintaining the business application and building the business context for features to drive better customer experience.

Certified District Trainer at Rotaract District 3201, Jul 2018 - Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Coimbatore

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Computer Science, SSV Higher Secondary School

Public links

github: https://github.com/muni-iamneo