# Naresh Kumar Manivannan

> Naresh Kumar Manivannan (also written M. Naresh Kumar; GitHub: nareshlab) is a Forward Deployed Engineer in the Founder's Office at Complyance in Chennai, India. He builds AI agents, integrations and automations end to end — usually solo and on short deadlines — to help the organisation scale.

## Current role
- Forward Deployed Engineer — Founder's Office, Complyance (Nov 2026 – present, Chennai, on-site). Works directly with the founders; builds AI agents that automate work, integrations connecting Complyance with external systems and third-party tools, and internal tools.

## Experience
- Full Stack Developer, Complyance (Dec 2025 – Nov 2026): built Krato, Complyance's internal business-operations platform unifying CRM, project delivery, customer success, project management, finance and HR, using Go, PostgreSQL and REST APIs.
- GTM Engineer Intern, Complyance (Jun 2025 – Dec 2025): owned the company website (Next.js), technical SEO and off-page SEO.
- Machine Learning Engineer Intern, C-DAC India (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing): developed a machine-learning system to detect vishing (voice phishing) calls.

## Recognition
- Winner, Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2025 — the only winning team among 500 teams.
- Indian patent application 202541046421 — "Statueist: A Secure AI-Powered Device for Hindu Temple Sculpture Recognition and Information Retrieval" (filed May 2025, published June 2025).
- IEEE paper — "Statueist: Automated Recognition and Explanation of Hindu God Statues and Sculptures": https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11399022/
- ServiceNow Certified Application Developer (CAD) and ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA).

## Education
- B.Tech, Information Technology — St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Chennai (2022 – 2026), CGPA 8.26.

## Skills
AI agents and LLM workflows; system integrations and data pipelines; workflow automation; Go, PostgreSQL, REST APIs; TypeScript, Next.js, React; Python and machine learning; mobile app development; ServiceNow; technical and off-page SEO; go-to-market engineering.

## Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naresh-kumar2004/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nareshlab
- Email: outreach.naresh@gmail.com