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title: "Rithi Shanmugam - Associate in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Rithi Shanmugam, AI & DevOps Engineer | 3+ Years | AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform | Agentic AI, MCP & RAG Systems based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor, langchain, and mcp."
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# Rithi Shanmugam on Tal

## Headline

AI & DevOps Engineer \| 3\+ Years \| AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform \| Agentic AI, MCP & RAG Systems

## About

DevOps & AI Developer integrating 3\+ years of cloud\-native system design with modern AI engineering\. I architect scalable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure across AWS/Azure using Kubernetes and Terraform, while simultaneously building and deploying Agentic AI solutions, custom MCP servers, and highly optimized RAG architectures\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

langchain

mcp

openai

## Work experience

Associate at Cognizant, Apr 2026 \- Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Analyst at Cognizant, Apr 2022 \- Mar 2026 · 4 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

## Education

Electronics and Communication Engineering, K\.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering

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