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Evaluation for Quality Engineering
Automation frameworks, API testing, Playwright/Selenium sharding & CI/CD delivery.
12-Question Diagnostic EngineMaps your core engineering fundamentals, software quality, APIs, cloud systems, and AI readiness across all 3 tracks.
Sample Readiness Score58 / 100
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Quality Engineering Score
58/ 100
Shared engineering dimensions
Track AlignmentEngineering Fundamentals85%
Programming & Code Quality72%
APIs & Systems Integration60%
Data & SQL40%
Cloud, CI/CD & DevOps45%
AI Engineering32%
Current ProfileAutomation Engineer
Recommended Next RoleAI-enabled SDET
Closest PivotForward Deployed Engineer
Top Skill Gaps
AI-assisted testingBackend/API engineeringCI/CDAgentic test automation
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Six stagesJob ready
- Step 01
Learn
Instructor-led + structured
- Step 02
Practice
Hands-on labs
- Step 03
Build
Industry-style projects
- Step 04
Assess
Technical assessments
- Step 05
Prove
Portfolio / GitHub
- Step 06
Prepare
Mock interviews, mentoring
Career Transformation
Real journeys, engineered.
Sample stories shown. Names, photos, salary figures and company logos are placeholders until each learner’s story is validated and approved.
“One end-to-end project — ingest, model, test, document — was worth more in interviews than every certificate I had collected.”
Before
Fresher
— · Salary: —
After
Junior Data Engineer
First role
Data Engineering
SQLPythondbtPortfolio project
Bhuvaneswari M
Junior Data Engineer · Trichy
“Demoing something half-built to a customer felt wrong until I saw how much faster it got us to the real requirement.”
Before
API Developer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Product company
Forward Deployed
RetrievalEvaluationCustomer demosDeployment
Vikram Sethuraman
Forward Deployed Engineer · Hyderabad
“Batch was all I had ever run. Moving to streaming forced me to think about ordering and failure in a way batch had let me ignore.”
Before
ETL Developer
7 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior Data Engineer
Switched company
Data Engineering
SparkKafkaStreamingLakehouse
Sathish Kumar
Senior Data Engineer · Madurai
“I wrote good SQL and nothing else. Orchestration and modelling turned a set of queries into something a team could actually depend on.”
Before
SQL Developer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Product company
Data Engineering
PythonAirflowdbtWarehousing
Manikandan T
Data Engineer · Chennai
“I could produce load reports nobody read. Tying results to an SLO the team had agreed on is what made them matter.”
Before
Performance Tester
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior SDET
Promotion
Quality Engineering
k6ProfilingSLOsObservability
Rajesh Anand
Senior SDET · Bengaluru
“Being asked to defend a number in a board deck, and being able to trace it back through the pipeline, is what changed how people treated my work.”
Before
Data Analyst
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
Analytics Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
PipelinesData quality testsLineageCloud storage
Ramya Subramanian
Analytics Engineer · Bengaluru
“A decade of keeping servers alive does not transfer on its own. Learning the platform side is what made that decade count for something.”
Before
Database Administrator
10 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Platform Engineer
Internal move
Data Engineering
Cloud migrationOrchestrationContractsObservability
Naveen Chandran
Data Platform Engineer · Chennai
“I was translating between customers and engineers without being able to build anything myself. Now I bring a working prototype to the second meeting.”
Before
Business Analyst
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Solutions Engineer
Switched company
Forward Deployed
SQLPythonPrompt engineeringPrototyping
Priya Venkatesh
Solutions Engineer · Hyderabad
“I had no CS degree and no callbacks. Building one real project end to end, with a README a stranger could follow, is what finally got interviewers to talk to me about engineering.”
Before
Fresher
— · Salary: —
After
Junior QA Engineer
First role
Quality Engineering
JavaSeleniumTestNGPortfolio project
Nithya Balan
Junior QA Engineer · Madurai
“Contract testing was the idea that landed hardest. Catching a breaking change before it reaches staging changed how the backend team saw QA.”
Before
QA Analyst
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
SDET
Switched company
Quality Engineering
API testingContract testsMockingPipelines
Ilakkiya Devi
SDET · Salem
“Every integration I had built assumed a happy path. Designing for the customer's worst network day is a different discipline.”
Before
Integration Engineer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Deployment Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
WebhooksAuthAgent designHandover
Nandhakumar R
Deployment Engineer · Coimbatore
“The dashboards I built were only as good as the loads behind them. Owning those loads was the step that made the dashboards trustworthy.”
Before
BI Analyst
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
PythonAirflowData contractsQuality tests
Keerthana Suresh
Data Engineer · Bengaluru
“I could run a team but could not defend a quality bar to leadership. Framing coverage as risk, with numbers attached, changed how those meetings went.”
Before
Test Lead
9 yrs · Salary: —
After
QA Manager
Promotion
Quality Engineering
StrategyRisk-based testingAI toolingStakeholder reporting
Anitha Krishnan
QA Manager · Chennai
“Most of what people call an AI data problem turned out to be an ordinary pipeline problem wearing a new hat.”
Before
Backend Developer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Product company
Data Engineering
Data contractsKafkaWarehouse designAI readiness
Hariharan V
Data Engineer · Coimbatore
“My suite worked but took nine hours. Learning sharding and containerised runners brought it under forty minutes, and that single change is what got me the lead conversation.”
Before
Selenium Tester
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
SDET
Team lead track
Quality Engineering
Framework designParallel executionDockerReporting
Prakash Iyer
SDET · Bengaluru
“Learning to document a pipeline so someone else could run it was the moment the job stopped depending on me being available.”
Before
MIS Analyst
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
First engineering role
Data Engineering
SQL depthOrchestrationDocumentationCost tuning
Yamuna Devi
Data Engineer · Trichy
“Nobody had told me a pipeline could be tested. Adding data quality checks to every load stopped the Monday morning firefighting.”
Before
Report Developer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
PythonModellingTesting pipelinesCost tuning
Lavanya Prasad
Data Engineer · Hyderabad
“The handover module was the one I underestimated. Writing something the customer's team could still run after I left is what got me asked back.”
Before
Solutions QA
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Solutions Engineer
Client-facing role
Forward Deployed
PrototypingWebhooksRetrieval systemsHandover docs
Sneha Raghavan
Solutions Engineer · Pune
“One end-to-end project — ingest, model, test, document — was worth more in interviews than every certificate I had collected.”
Before
Fresher
— · Salary: —
After
Junior Data Engineer
First role
Data Engineering
SQLPythondbtPortfolio project
Bhuvaneswari M
Junior Data Engineer · Trichy
“Demoing something half-built to a customer felt wrong until I saw how much faster it got us to the real requirement.”
Before
API Developer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Product company
Forward Deployed
RetrievalEvaluationCustomer demosDeployment
Vikram Sethuraman
Forward Deployed Engineer · Hyderabad
“Batch was all I had ever run. Moving to streaming forced me to think about ordering and failure in a way batch had let me ignore.”
Before
ETL Developer
7 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior Data Engineer
Switched company
Data Engineering
SparkKafkaStreamingLakehouse
Sathish Kumar
Senior Data Engineer · Madurai
“I wrote good SQL and nothing else. Orchestration and modelling turned a set of queries into something a team could actually depend on.”
Before
SQL Developer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Product company
Data Engineering
PythonAirflowdbtWarehousing
Manikandan T
Data Engineer · Chennai
“I could produce load reports nobody read. Tying results to an SLO the team had agreed on is what made them matter.”
Before
Performance Tester
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior SDET
Promotion
Quality Engineering
k6ProfilingSLOsObservability
Rajesh Anand
Senior SDET · Bengaluru
“Being asked to defend a number in a board deck, and being able to trace it back through the pipeline, is what changed how people treated my work.”
Before
Data Analyst
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
Analytics Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
PipelinesData quality testsLineageCloud storage
Ramya Subramanian
Analytics Engineer · Bengaluru
“A decade of keeping servers alive does not transfer on its own. Learning the platform side is what made that decade count for something.”
Before
Database Administrator
10 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Platform Engineer
Internal move
Data Engineering
Cloud migrationOrchestrationContractsObservability
Naveen Chandran
Data Platform Engineer · Chennai
“I was translating between customers and engineers without being able to build anything myself. Now I bring a working prototype to the second meeting.”
Before
Business Analyst
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Solutions Engineer
Switched company
Forward Deployed
SQLPythonPrompt engineeringPrototyping
Priya Venkatesh
Solutions Engineer · Hyderabad
“I had no CS degree and no callbacks. Building one real project end to end, with a README a stranger could follow, is what finally got interviewers to talk to me about engineering.”
Before
Fresher
— · Salary: —
After
Junior QA Engineer
First role
Quality Engineering
JavaSeleniumTestNGPortfolio project
Nithya Balan
Junior QA Engineer · Madurai
“Contract testing was the idea that landed hardest. Catching a breaking change before it reaches staging changed how the backend team saw QA.”
Before
QA Analyst
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
SDET
Switched company
Quality Engineering
API testingContract testsMockingPipelines
Ilakkiya Devi
SDET · Salem
“Every integration I had built assumed a happy path. Designing for the customer's worst network day is a different discipline.”
Before
Integration Engineer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Deployment Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
WebhooksAuthAgent designHandover
Nandhakumar R
Deployment Engineer · Coimbatore
“The dashboards I built were only as good as the loads behind them. Owning those loads was the step that made the dashboards trustworthy.”
Before
BI Analyst
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
PythonAirflowData contractsQuality tests
Keerthana Suresh
Data Engineer · Bengaluru
“I could run a team but could not defend a quality bar to leadership. Framing coverage as risk, with numbers attached, changed how those meetings went.”
Before
Test Lead
9 yrs · Salary: —
After
QA Manager
Promotion
Quality Engineering
StrategyRisk-based testingAI toolingStakeholder reporting
Anitha Krishnan
QA Manager · Chennai
“Most of what people call an AI data problem turned out to be an ordinary pipeline problem wearing a new hat.”
Before
Backend Developer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Product company
Data Engineering
Data contractsKafkaWarehouse designAI readiness
Hariharan V
Data Engineer · Coimbatore
“My suite worked but took nine hours. Learning sharding and containerised runners brought it under forty minutes, and that single change is what got me the lead conversation.”
Before
Selenium Tester
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
SDET
Team lead track
Quality Engineering
Framework designParallel executionDockerReporting
Prakash Iyer
SDET · Bengaluru
“Learning to document a pipeline so someone else could run it was the moment the job stopped depending on me being available.”
Before
MIS Analyst
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
First engineering role
Data Engineering
SQL depthOrchestrationDocumentationCost tuning
Yamuna Devi
Data Engineer · Trichy
“Nobody had told me a pipeline could be tested. Adding data quality checks to every load stopped the Monday morning firefighting.”
Before
Report Developer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
PythonModellingTesting pipelinesCost tuning
Lavanya Prasad
Data Engineer · Hyderabad
“The handover module was the one I underestimated. Writing something the customer's team could still run after I left is what got me asked back.”
Before
Solutions QA
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Solutions Engineer
Client-facing role
Forward Deployed
PrototypingWebhooksRetrieval systemsHandover docs
Sneha Raghavan
Solutions Engineer · Pune
“Coming from support, I knew how to raise a ticket but not how to test properly. The SQL and API classes gave me the vocabulary to sit in design reviews and actually ask the right questions.”
Before
Support Engineer
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
QA Engineer
Outcome: —
Quality Engineering
Testing fundamentalsSQLAPI basicsAI-assisted testing
Divya Lakshmi R
QA Engineer · Coimbatore
“Nobody had shown me how a real repository is organised. Learning branches and reviews mattered as much as learning the framework.”
Before
Fresher
— · Salary: —
After
Junior QA Engineer
First role
Quality Engineering
JavaPlaywrightGitPortfolio project
Swetha Mohan
Junior QA Engineer · Chennai
“Moving from stored procedures to version-controlled models meant my work could finally be reviewed like everyone else's.”
Before
Data Warehouse Developer
8 yrs · Salary: —
After
Analytics Engineer
Promotion
Data Engineering
dbtTestingLineageCloud migration
Balaji Sundaresan
Analytics Engineer · Chennai
“Our product shipped an AI feature and nobody knew how to sign it off. Building a small evaluation harness with a scored dataset turned that from an argument into a number we could report.”
Before
Automation Engineer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
AI Quality Engineer
Internal move
Quality Engineering
LLM evaluationTest data strategyFlake budgetsAgentic testing
Vignesh Kannan
AI Quality Engineer · Chennai
“Schema evolution was the thing I had been quietly afraid of. Having a strategy for it is what let us stop versioning topics by hand.”
Before
Backend Developer
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior Data Engineer
Product company
Data Engineering
KafkaSparkSchema evolutionLakehouse
Mohammed Irfan
Senior Data Engineer · Hyderabad
“The prototyping rhythm was the change — days, not sprints. Showing something rough early beats describing something perfect later.”
Before
Product Support Engineer
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Promotion
Forward Deployed
DiscoveryRapid prototypingAgent guardrailsEnablement
Deepa Narayanan
Forward Deployed Engineer · Chennai
“I used to write requirements and hand them over. Now I build the first version myself, and the requirement gets better for it.”
Before
Product Analyst
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
Customer Engineer
Switched company
Forward Deployed
SQLPythonPrototypingDiscovery
Shalini Gopal
Customer Engineer · Mumbai
“The visual regression module solved a problem my team had been arguing about for a year. We stopped debating screenshots and started diffing them.”
Before
Manual Tester
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Automation Engineer
Outcome: —
Quality Engineering
PlaywrightComponent testingVisual diffsCI
Sundar Raman
Automation Engineer · Chennai
“I had been the person everyone asked for a spreadsheet. Now I own the pipeline those spreadsheets used to come from.”
Before
MIS Executive
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Reliability Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
SQL depthPythonOrchestrationDocumentation
Kavitha Rajendran
Data Reliability Engineer · Chennai
“I spent four years writing test cases in Excel and had convinced myself automation was not for me. The Playwright sessions started from absolute basics, and by the third month I was pushing my own framework into the team repo.”
Before
Manual Tester
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Automation Engineer
Product company
Quality Engineering
PlaywrightAPICI/CDInterview prep
Saravanan Murugesan
Automation Engineer · Chennai
“Seven years of clicking through regression suites left me with no story to tell in interviews. Learning to reason about contracts and latency gave me one.”
Before
QA Analyst
7 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior SDET
Outcome: —
Quality Engineering
API contractsPerformanceObservabilityMentoring
Meenakshi Sundaram
Senior SDET · Trichy
“Reading an agent trace properly, and knowing which step actually failed, is a skill nobody teaches. That is most of the job when something breaks on a customer call.”
Before
Full-stack Developer
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Product company
Forward Deployed
Agent designTool callingGuardrailsCustomer workshops
Rahul Deshpande
Forward Deployed AI Engineer · Mumbai
“The part that stuck was code review. Having someone tell me why my page object was doing too much taught me more than any tutorial had.”
Before
Manual QA
2 yrs · Salary: —
After
Automation Engineer
Switched company
Quality Engineering
PlaywrightFixturesGitHub ActionsCode review
Karthik Raja
Automation Engineer · Hyderabad
“Eight years of knowing exactly what customers struggle with, and no way to build the fix. That gap is what closed.”
Before
Support Lead
8 yrs · Salary: —
After
Customer Engineer
Internal move
Forward Deployed
PythonLLM applicationsScopingDelivery
Gopinath S
Customer Engineer · Chennai
“Consulting taught me to run the room. What I was missing was the ability to open a laptop and change the thing we were discussing.”
Before
Technical Consultant
7 yrs · Salary: —
After
Solutions Engineer
Internal move
Forward Deployed
PythonLLM appsGuardrailsEnablement
Aishwarya Pillai
Solutions Engineer · Kochi
“I could build the service but froze the moment a customer asked why. Learning to scope a problem out loud, in front of them, was the harder and more valuable half.”
Before
Backend Developer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
LLM appsIntegration engineeringCustomer discoveryDeployment
Arjun Menon
Forward Deployed Engineer · Kochi
“I knew integrations from the ticket side. Building one from a blank page, with the customer watching, is a completely different muscle.”
Before
Integration Analyst
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
Deployment Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
API designAuth flowsPrototype to productionDiscovery
Fathima Noor
Deployment Engineer · Bengaluru
“Deploying into someone else's environment, with their constraints and their security review, is nothing like deploying into your own.”
Before
DevOps Engineer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
LLM servingEvaluationCustomer environmentsHandover
Aravind Kumar
Forward Deployed Engineer · Coimbatore
“Coming from support, I knew how to raise a ticket but not how to test properly. The SQL and API classes gave me the vocabulary to sit in design reviews and actually ask the right questions.”
Before
Support Engineer
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
QA Engineer
Outcome: —
Quality Engineering
Testing fundamentalsSQLAPI basicsAI-assisted testing
Divya Lakshmi R
QA Engineer · Coimbatore
“Nobody had shown me how a real repository is organised. Learning branches and reviews mattered as much as learning the framework.”
Before
Fresher
— · Salary: —
After
Junior QA Engineer
First role
Quality Engineering
JavaPlaywrightGitPortfolio project
Swetha Mohan
Junior QA Engineer · Chennai
“Moving from stored procedures to version-controlled models meant my work could finally be reviewed like everyone else's.”
Before
Data Warehouse Developer
8 yrs · Salary: —
After
Analytics Engineer
Promotion
Data Engineering
dbtTestingLineageCloud migration
Balaji Sundaresan
Analytics Engineer · Chennai
“Our product shipped an AI feature and nobody knew how to sign it off. Building a small evaluation harness with a scored dataset turned that from an argument into a number we could report.”
Before
Automation Engineer
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
AI Quality Engineer
Internal move
Quality Engineering
LLM evaluationTest data strategyFlake budgetsAgentic testing
Vignesh Kannan
AI Quality Engineer · Chennai
“Schema evolution was the thing I had been quietly afraid of. Having a strategy for it is what let us stop versioning topics by hand.”
Before
Backend Developer
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior Data Engineer
Product company
Data Engineering
KafkaSparkSchema evolutionLakehouse
Mohammed Irfan
Senior Data Engineer · Hyderabad
“The prototyping rhythm was the change — days, not sprints. Showing something rough early beats describing something perfect later.”
Before
Product Support Engineer
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Promotion
Forward Deployed
DiscoveryRapid prototypingAgent guardrailsEnablement
Deepa Narayanan
Forward Deployed Engineer · Chennai
“I used to write requirements and hand them over. Now I build the first version myself, and the requirement gets better for it.”
Before
Product Analyst
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
Customer Engineer
Switched company
Forward Deployed
SQLPythonPrototypingDiscovery
Shalini Gopal
Customer Engineer · Mumbai
“The visual regression module solved a problem my team had been arguing about for a year. We stopped debating screenshots and started diffing them.”
Before
Manual Tester
5 yrs · Salary: —
After
Automation Engineer
Outcome: —
Quality Engineering
PlaywrightComponent testingVisual diffsCI
Sundar Raman
Automation Engineer · Chennai
“I had been the person everyone asked for a spreadsheet. Now I own the pipeline those spreadsheets used to come from.”
Before
MIS Executive
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Data Reliability Engineer
Outcome: —
Data Engineering
SQL depthPythonOrchestrationDocumentation
Kavitha Rajendran
Data Reliability Engineer · Chennai
“I spent four years writing test cases in Excel and had convinced myself automation was not for me. The Playwright sessions started from absolute basics, and by the third month I was pushing my own framework into the team repo.”
Before
Manual Tester
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Automation Engineer
Product company
Quality Engineering
PlaywrightAPICI/CDInterview prep
Saravanan Murugesan
Automation Engineer · Chennai
“Seven years of clicking through regression suites left me with no story to tell in interviews. Learning to reason about contracts and latency gave me one.”
Before
QA Analyst
7 yrs · Salary: —
After
Senior SDET
Outcome: —
Quality Engineering
API contractsPerformanceObservabilityMentoring
Meenakshi Sundaram
Senior SDET · Trichy
“Reading an agent trace properly, and knowing which step actually failed, is a skill nobody teaches. That is most of the job when something breaks on a customer call.”
Before
Full-stack Developer
6 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Product company
Forward Deployed
Agent designTool callingGuardrailsCustomer workshops
Rahul Deshpande
Forward Deployed AI Engineer · Mumbai
“The part that stuck was code review. Having someone tell me why my page object was doing too much taught me more than any tutorial had.”
Before
Manual QA
2 yrs · Salary: —
After
Automation Engineer
Switched company
Quality Engineering
PlaywrightFixturesGitHub ActionsCode review
Karthik Raja
Automation Engineer · Hyderabad
“Eight years of knowing exactly what customers struggle with, and no way to build the fix. That gap is what closed.”
Before
Support Lead
8 yrs · Salary: —
After
Customer Engineer
Internal move
Forward Deployed
PythonLLM applicationsScopingDelivery
Gopinath S
Customer Engineer · Chennai
“Consulting taught me to run the room. What I was missing was the ability to open a laptop and change the thing we were discussing.”
Before
Technical Consultant
7 yrs · Salary: —
After
Solutions Engineer
Internal move
Forward Deployed
PythonLLM appsGuardrailsEnablement
Aishwarya Pillai
Solutions Engineer · Kochi
“I could build the service but froze the moment a customer asked why. Learning to scope a problem out loud, in front of them, was the harder and more valuable half.”
Before
Backend Developer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
LLM appsIntegration engineeringCustomer discoveryDeployment
Arjun Menon
Forward Deployed Engineer · Kochi
“I knew integrations from the ticket side. Building one from a blank page, with the customer watching, is a completely different muscle.”
Before
Integration Analyst
3 yrs · Salary: —
After
Deployment Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
API designAuth flowsPrototype to productionDiscovery
Fathima Noor
Deployment Engineer · Bengaluru
“Deploying into someone else's environment, with their constraints and their security review, is nothing like deploying into your own.”
Before
DevOps Engineer
4 yrs · Salary: —
After
Forward Deployed Engineer
Outcome: —
Forward Deployed
LLM servingEvaluationCustomer environmentsHandover
Aravind Kumar
Forward Deployed Engineer · Coimbatore
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