Manish Kumar

Senior Software Engineer | Linkedin’s Top System Architecture Voice | Ex Platform Intern @ Mercari JP | Founding Engineer @ Blaze AI (YC W22) | Platform / Cloud / SWE / SRE

🏫 Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management

Dual Degree (B. Tech (IT) + MBA)
July 2019 - July 2024 | Gwalior, India

⚙️ Skills

• Programming Languages — JavaScript, TypeScript, Go-lang, Python, Bash, MarkDown, Rust
• Tools and Frameworks — Linux, Node.js, React.js, Next.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Flask, Express, Firebase, Apache Airflow
• Databases — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, AWS RedShift, Snowflake, BigQuery
• Cloud Platforms — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud
• Communication — English (Fluent), Hindi (native speaker)
• Automation — Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD
• Concepts — Microservices, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Computing/Engineering

🛠️ Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Innovapptive Inc.

May 2024 - Aug 2024 | Hyderabad, India

• Worked on building a completely new cloud agnostic infrastructure for the company's primary product using Kubernetes and Kustomize
• Developed multiple systems in place for an efficient developer workflow from coding to deployments and monitoring
• Acted as an architect and a tech lead of team of 7 people ensuring good quality code and product development
• Developed multiple internal tools for the company like Internal Wiki, API Documentation and infrastructure tooling, saving $100k+ in third party costs

Software Engineering Intern, Mercari Inc.

Feb 2024 - Apr 2024 | Tokyo, Japan

• Implemented Passkey login on the common Auth page using Next.js, React and WebAuthn API, currently having 300 thousand+ logins each day
• Building the foundation of the Backstage internal tool to unify and streamline developer experience across the company having 2000+ developers
• Worked with a diverse team with people from 18+ countries from company's main office at Tokyo, Japan
• Enabled and optimised various features and improvements in internal CI/CD and platform tooling for the betterment of Developer Experience(DX) within the company
• Created as well as fixed a few production affecting incidents
• Deployed an internal standalone system using Kubernetes, Terraform and Spinnaker

Chief Cloud Architect and Tech Lead, Cometlabs

Feb 2023 - Nov 2023 | Hyderabad, Telangana

• Developed and implemented scalable, secure and efficient cloud architecture
• Led a team of 15 engineers in development and deployment of platform using Next.JS, Node.js, Golang, AWS and Kubernetes
• Managed cloud resources on Amazon Web Services, resulting in a 20% reduction in operational costs
• Spearheaded the development of instant, real time and multi node coding playgrounds using Kubernetes, EKS and AWS

Software Engineer Intern, Blaze AI

Mar 2022 - May 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka

• Developed the main website + 3 web applications using React, Next and MUI
• Worked on optimising the website, reducing the initial bundle size by 90%
• Setup the data warehousing infrastructure on Snowflake, currently with 2 billion+ rows and 100k+ queries per day
• Worked on reducing the latency of queries by more than 90% by migrating the system to Snowflake
• Deployed and Managed 4+ Staging and Production Clusters using AWS ECS
• Setup 10+ deployment lifecycles and CI/CD pipelines for various micro-services and applications on AWS Lambda, AWS EC2 and AWS ECS using Github Actions and Bash Scripts
• Setup data processing pipelines using Apache Airflow

Software Engineering Intern, Retrera

Oct 2021 - Feb 2022 | Remote

• Worked in building the UI using Next.js and Material UI
• Developed multiple APIs using Python, Flask and SQLAlchemy
• Integrated various 3rd party services like Slack, Stripe, Chargebee and Merge

Cloud Engineer (Freelance), Techwondoe

Jul 2021 - Nov 2021 | Remote

• Worked on Data Processing pipelines on Google Cloud Platform and delivered end-to-end products to Production
• Built, deployed and managed 5+ Google Cloud Functions using Node.js, Python, gcloud CLI, Terraform and Gitlab CI
• Worked with Google Document AI to process and extract data from PDFs on scale
• Worked on React Native and nx.dev to develop UI Screens for a cross-platform modular Mobile App

Cloud Engineer Intern, Maalexi

Aug 2020 - Sep 2021 | Remote

• Led both Front-end and Back-end development and infrastructure of the current marketplace website
• Integrated various payment platforms (Stripe, Escrow.com) in the website facilitating online transactions
• Co-managed the cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS ECS, CloudWatch, EC2, Docker and Vercel
• Setup multiple CI/CD pipelines using Bash Scripting and Gitlab CI

Full Stack Developer Intern, S4S Technologies

July 2020 – Feb 2021 | Remote

• Built Internal Admin System for the Supply Chain and for Internal Co-ordination, currently incorporating 200+ Farmers in Maharashtra, using React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Deployed several applications in Production using AWS and Docker
• Created a smooth CI/CD Flow using Github Actions

Web Developer, AllWeLearn

Apr 2020 - Jul 2020 | Remote

• Designed, Developed and Deployed a complete PENN Stack (PostgreSQL, Express, NextJS, NodeJS) website
• Made complete backend, frontend and cloud infrastructure on AWS with Docker and Serverless technology, making a highly available, scalable, fault tolerant and cost effective solution for deploying a website
• Setup a CI/CD pipeline through GitHub Actions to AWS ECS for production server and Google Cloud Run for Development server

🚧 Projects

Open Source Contributor and Maintainer, Nodejs.org

Oct 2021 – present

• Made multiple commits over the course of 30 months with multiple fixes and pull request reviews
• Implemented the blog part of the new NodeJS website using Gatsby, Remark and Markdown
• Worked on migration of the main website from 11nty to Next.js
• Contributed to multiple discussions and meetings in the Node.js organisation and the development of Node.js in general

Gnome Customization Tool, Dynamic Gnome Wallpapers

Jan 2022

• Easy to use bash scripts to install MacOS like dynamic wallpapers for Gnome based Linux systems
• Ported 15+ wallpapers to the app increasing the choices for customization
• Open Source project with 150+ stars on Github

Fully Server-less Anonymous Election web-app, Electify

Jul 2021 – Jul 2021

• Web app created for creating anonymous elections, voting and sharing results.
• Made using React + NextJS + TypeScript + NodeJS + Server-less Functions
• Deployed on server-less platform Vercel
• Uses a resilient back-end architecture with AWS DynamoDB as the database of choice

🏣 Organizations

Node JS, Website Maintainer | May 2021 - Present

IIITM Gwalior, Placement Representative | Aug 2022 - May 2024

Google Developer Student Clubs, Chapter Lead | Jul 2021 – Jun 2022

IEEE Student Branch IIITM Gwalior, Web Operations Head | Feb 2020 – Aug 2022

ICPC, Student Co-ordinator | Dec 2019

Aurora, IIITM Gwalior, Graphic Designer | Oct 2019 - Feb 2020

Rotaract Club, IIITM, Member | May 2020 - Jul 2020

E-Cell, IIITM, Member | Aug 2020 - May 2021

Girlscript Summer of Code, Supervisor and Mentor | Feb 2022

🪪 Licenses & Certifications

OpenJS Foundation: JavaScriptLandia, The Linux Foundation | Credential

Postman Student Expert, Postman | Credential

AWS Fundamentals Specialization, Coursera | Credential

DevOps on Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Cloud | Credential

JavaScript, HackerRank | Credential