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● software / ai-native engineer
Hi, I’m Manan.
I'm a software engineer who's happiest staring down a problem that looks impossible - working out why it isn't, then shipping it before the deadline. I build AI (and with AI) for a living (agents, MCP servers, the whole agentic stack), but honestly I love all of it: backend, full-stack, ML, whatever the problem needs. I came up through hackathons, won a bunch, and never shook the habit of building fast. When I'm not shipping, I'm probably tracking a flight I'm not on, or bowling season balls down 22 yards.
Everyone can talk about what they do.
Let me show you instead.
Meet Sully, my autopilot — he’s read everything I’ve built. Paste a role you’re hiring for and he’ll map it to my background in real time, then land an honest verdict: strong fit or not, and why. He’s biased, obviously — but only a little.
a real multi-step agent — paste a role and watch it run.
Selected work
Things I've built
ScriptSync
Won Yantra Central Hack 2024 (123 teams, 750 students) — VIT's flagship hackathonTranslates a whole lecture video — including the teacher's handwriting and notes on screen — and redraws it, in place, in your language.
PythonOpenCVComputer VisionFastAPIReact.jsAutoGift.ai
Winner | 2nd Place — Amazon India GenAI Hackathon 2025An agent that learns what your people like — swipe by swipe — then quietly buys and ships their gifts on time - be the one never misses a special occasion, no matter how busy you get!
PythonTensorFlowTypeScriptNext.jsAWS Bedrock AgentsModel Context ProtocolUniPool
Campus carpooling that actually shipped — live on both stores, built to fill the empty seats heading to the airport.
React NativeGoGoFiberTypeScriptDocker
Proof
Hackathons & wins
- Winner | 2nd Place
Amazon India GenAI Hackathon
Won Amazon's GenAI hackathon as an intern - competing against teams all across India with experience levels ranging from interns to staff engineers.
- Winner
Yantra Central Hack
Won VIT Vellore's biggest hackathon, stacked up against VIT's best minds - with a project that solved one of the world's biggest problems - language barrier.
- Winner | 2nd Place
Code4Change
Won the second place at a large-scale hackathon organised by IEEE and SSIT, with the judging panel being senior developers from Microsoft, Autodesk and more.
- Winner | 3rd Place
DevJams by Google Developers Group
Stood third at Google Developer Group's hackathon for turning any block of text into an immersive audio-visual experience.
- Track Winner (Healthcare & Education)
DevSOC 2025
Won the Healthcare & Education track amongst a competition of 1200+ participants, creating a smart board that runs off a phone camera and a finger.
Experience
Where I've worked
- 01Founding Software Engineer (but also an intern) · Kello.aiJan 2026 – Jun 2026 · Bengaluru, India
Helped build the agentic AI and intelligence layer behind a Peak XV–backed intelligence platform — from the ground up.
- 02SDE-I Intern · AmazonJul 2025 – Dec 2025 · Bengaluru, India
Worked on several production-scale projects, biggest of all being laying the foundations for AI infrastructure across my org — the baseline every AI project after me builds on, and received a full-time SDE conversion.
- 03Software Development Engineer Intern · VouchrItJun 2024 – Aug 2024 · Mumbai, India
Early FinTech startup — built the bank-statement parsing service that went out to real clients.
Capabilities
The stack
Languages
PythonGoTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaC++CSQLNoSQL
AI/ML
LangGraphModel Context Protocol (MCP)AI AgentsAWS Bedrock AgentsLLM OrchestrationNLPEmbeddingsTensorFlowKerasOpenCV
Frameworks & Libraries
FastAPIFlaskDjangoNode.jsReact.jsReact NativeNext.jsSpringSpring BootGoFiber
Cloud & DevOps
Amazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformAzure CloudOracle CloudDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGit
Systems & Data
ElasticsearchPostgreSQLVector DatabasesSemantic SearchMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Spoken English (native) · Gujarati (native) · Hindi (native) · French (professional working) · Marathi (limited working)
Contact
Let's talk
Building something where I’d be useful — or just want to compare notes? The fastest ways to reach me:
What is OSM?
This portfolio is one vertical of opensourcemanan — an all-in-one personal platform I build in the open: portfolio, a live AI agent, a blog and more, all on shared primitives.
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