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title: "Rishabh Dev Shukla - Founder in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Rishabh Dev Shukla on Tal

## Headline

Founder Pratinidhi AI \| Ex Salesforce, Microsoft, Nference, Flipkart \| IIT Kanpur

## About

I am the Founder of Pratinidhi AI, where we are building a multi\-agent AI automation platform that enables businesses to orchestrate intelligent AI agents for workflow automation across hiring, sales, customer support, and more\. Our goal is to empower businesses with AI\-driven automation that reduces manual effort and enhances operational efficiency\. Previously, I worked extensively as an Engineer specializing in Data Pipelines, AI, and Large\-Scale Distributed Systems: 🔹 Salesforce – Part of the Data Platform Team, working on large\-scale services, handling Kafka, REST APIs, and database automation scripts using Transactional\-SQL \(T\-SQL\)\. 🔹 Nference – Developed highly optimized data pipelines for processing biomedical knowledge, recognized as the Google of Bio Medicine by The Washington Post\. 🔹 Flipkart Payments Group \(FPG\) – Built scalable data pipelines processing high\-volume customer transactions using Java, Scala, Hadoop, and Spark\. 🔹 Microsoft India Development Center \(Azure Backup Team\) – Contributed to IaaS Virtual Machine Backup Microservices, leading feature development, test automation, and live site monitoring\. My Masters Thesis was in Compiler Optimization, where I worked on LLVM\. With a strong foundation in AI, Data Engineering, and Distributed Systems, I am now focused on building Pratinidhi AI to revolutionize AI\-driven workflow automation\. 🔗 Connect with me to discuss AI, startups, and automation at scale\!

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Founder at Educado AI, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Founder at Pratinidhi AI, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, Oct 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Staff Engineer at nference, Apr 2022 \- Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at nference, Sep 2020 \- Apr 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer II at Flipkart, Jan 2020 \- Aug 2020 · 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Member of Flipkart Payments Group \(FPG\)

## Education

Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\.\), Computer Science, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Vishveshwarya Group of Institutions

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