Manish's Resume

🏫 Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management

Dual Degree (B. Tech (IT) + MBA)

July 2019 - July 2024 · Gwalior, India

⚙️ Skills

• Languages: Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash, HCL, SQL
• Kubernetes: GKE, EKS, Kustomize, Helm, Istio, K8s Security and Governance, Remote AI Agents Infrastructure
• CI/CD and Delivery: GitHub Actions (self-hosted runners, ARC), Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, Octopus Deploy, Tekton, BuildKit
• Cloud and IaC: Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud NAT, KMS, Workload Identity Federation), AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda), Terraform, CUE
• Security: OIDC and keyless SDLC / CI / CD, Sigstore, Image hardening and CVE management, PKI, WebAuthn and Passkeys
• Observability: Datadog, Grafana
• AI Tooling: AI agents for operations, MCP, Claude Code, OpenCode, Harness Engineering, Remote Agents Platform
• Web: React, Next.js, Node.js
• Languages spoken: English (fluent), Hindi (native)

🛠️ Experience

Senior Platform Engineer Mercari Inc.

Oct 2024 - Present | Bengaluru, India · Japan–India collaboration

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of a company-wide CD platform migration, delivering keyless, secure-by-default deployments across thousands of pipelines
• Build infrastructure-as-code deployment workflows, automation and developer tooling to improve productivity for product teams across the company
• Developing the foundational CI/CD infrastructure to manage the lifecycle of 4000+ microservices
• Managing 6+ Web services across the organisation, including the common authentication service of company serving 10 million Daily Active users
• Worked on enhancing Docker image security, reducing weekly CVEs by 95%
• Monitoring and debugging Site Reliability issues

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

• 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
• Developed the main website + 3 web applications using React, Next and MUI
• Worked on optimising the website, reducing the initial bundle size by 90%

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

Speaking

Interests

Photography, desk setups and hardware, open source, conference speaking, and AI-assisted developer tooling.

🚧 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

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Postman Student Expert

Postman

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AWS Fundamentals Specialization

Coursera

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DevOps on Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud

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JavaScript

HackerRank

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