Morning mist drifting over forested hills in Kerala, photographed by Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar

Hey, I'm Manish. A senior platform engineer at Mercari in Bengaluru.
I work on cloud platforms and developer tools. Outside work, I take photos for fun.

About

Senior Platform Engineer
Mercari, Bengaluru

Full experience
Manish Kumar

Platform engineer.

My experience includes platform engineering, full-stack development, and past open-source contributions.

Outside work, I'm a beginner taking photos for fun, and I enjoy experimenting with my desktop setup. I keep my configuration in my dotfiles.

I use this site to share what I've learned, personal notes, and resources I find useful.

Work

Cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and personal projects.

Engineering at Mercari

I work across cloud infrastructure, identity, security and developer tooling. I also help grow our platform engineering team in Bengaluru.

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Sharing what I learn

Zero Static Keys

Open Source Summit Japan 2026

TokyoUpcoming

Upcoming talk details

Passkeys in production

JSConf JP 2025

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Pastel illustration of a keyboard, workspace tiles, and a rotary control

My setup

I use AeroSpace, Rex, Fish, and Neovim on macOS, with some shell scripts for automation.

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Other interests

I'm interested in hardware, AI, and developer tools.

Writing

Software, infrastructure, and the tools I use every day.

Photography

Photos from my travels, taken for fun as I learn.

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Get in touch

Happy to chat about engineering, photography, or a project.

Manish Kumar
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Bengaluru, India