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title: "Saravanakumar Venkatesan - Staff Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Saravanakumar Venkatesan, Engineer @ C1.ai Ex-Azure | Ex-AWS based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and hermes agent."
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# Saravanakumar Venkatesan on Tal

## Headline

Engineer @ C1\.ai Ex\-Azure \| Ex\-AWS

## About

Shipping OpenAI engine for Azure & 1P Microsoft apps

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

codex

hermes agent

hugging face

n8n

opencode

## Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at C1, Dec 2025 \- Present · 10 mo, Remote

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Mar 2019 \- Dec 2025 · 6 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working in fastest growing cloud software ever \- Azure OpenAI\. Worked in Azure Blockchain Services\. Involved in R&D around Confidential computing integration with mostly used DLT like Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric

Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services \(AWS\), Aug 2017 \- Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Worked in 5 member team managing a tier\-1 core NoSql DB service namely AWS SimpleDB\. SimpleDB is the first of its kind started along with S3 among others\. Involved in re\-architecture of the service for robust automation that eventually required only 2 engineers to maintain

Technical Lead at McAfee, Apr 2016 \- Aug 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Developing messaging systems using flume, kafka and spark\. Setting up the infrastructure for analytics and ML\.

Senior Software Development Engineer at Intel Security, Jul 2014 \- Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Majorly worked on an internal client SDK development and architecture\. Started developing common cloud services REST api used across the company\.

## Education

Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\.\), Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

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