About

Manthan M Kulakarni is a Software Engineer 2 at Cisco with 2.28 years of relevant experience. He is a Full Stack Developer with expertise in Python, AWS, Jira, Automation, Angular, ReactJS, Machine Learning, and NLP. Manthan is also skilled in MindMeld and has a passion for technical blogging. Currently, Manthan is working on developing and managing Jira Automation for Cisco IT, CX, and Supply Chain, with sprint work items worth more than $13 billion. He is also building V3 of Cisco's chatbot platform-BotLite from scratch, where he is involved in architecture design and full-stack development using ReactJS and Python on AWS. In his previous role as a Software Engineer at Cisco, Manthan worked on the development of BotLite, a DIY low code no code chatbot framework similar to DialogueFlow and Watson Assistant. He developed an interactive notification broadcast solution with various options to personalize the message that can be sent to millions of users. Manthan also built a Paraphraser for synthetic data generator using Transformers network and Auto Entity Annotator using various NLP techniques. He brought down 40+ high-risk SAST Vulnerability in the application to 0 and externalized the application through Okta OAuth2 Integrations. Manthan also worked on secured API endpoints using JWT and developed a Web SDK for the bot platform and many other UI features using ReactJS and Angular. He also developed and hosted various automation for JIRA application on AWS environment. Manthan started his career at Cisco as a Software Engineer Intern, where he worked with the BotLite team. He developed an auto-learning bot that gets trained through interaction and a chat/dialogue flow visualizer using Flask and Angular. Manthan also integrated chatbots over multiple platforms like Facebook, Slack, Webex, and WhatsApp. He developed a generic message card that is supported across various platforms like Facebook, Slack, and Webex. Manthan holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engg., Mysore. He is skilled in MongoDB, Docker, Neural Networks, Integration, SVM, ECS, and MySQL. Manthan is a Research Scientist and has a passion for learning and working on interesting use cases.