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Manav Jain
Engineering Manager at Ultrahuman, Mumbai. Seven years building backend platforms at scale, running AI in production with owned SLAs, and growing the teams that operate them.
manav.mj.jain@gmail.com · GitHub · CV (PDF) · Detailed CV (PDF)
World 5 — Ultrahuman 2025 – now · Engineering Manager
- 658 merged pull requests across three production codebases in 15 months; #1 contributor of 19 engineers on the internal operations platform.
- Streaming health-data platform: Kafka into sharded TimescaleDB hypertables, 80M+ data points across 16 metric families for 12,900+ users.
- Production LLM systems on AWS Bedrock, reviewed by clinicians daily: ~9× faster generation, up to 95% lower token cost on repair paths.
- Founded the Performance Center module of the clinic-operations platform; 18 engineers now build on it.
- AI translation pipeline: 80 languages, 1M+ strings, no dedicated localisation team.
- Cohort-based firmware rollout system: 7M+ over-the-air updates to smart rings.
- Consumer wellness features (Shift Work Mode, New Parent Mode) with 120K+ activations.
World 4 — Coding Ninjas 2020 – 2025 · SDE 3, Growth Team Lead
- Joined at ~50 people, stayed through the scale-up to ~300.
- Led growth engineering: lead management, conversion, attribution, checkout, revenue integrations.
- Managed 4 engineers building the Code360 React Native app end to end.
- Scaled the Code360 web platform from 50,000 to 2 million sessions.
- Built an immutable order ledger and a custom A/B testing and rollout framework.
World 3 — Mahakavach 2020 · Backend Lead
- Government of Maharashtra COVID-19 health-tracking app.
- Led a self-organised remote team of 5 volunteer engineers.
- Served 1.8M users at 4M requests/month on Express.js and MongoDB. Covered by The Hindu and News18.
World 2 — Digital Impact Square, TCS 2019 · Innovator
- Led a team of 6 on a road-safety platform rewarding better riding.
- Co-created a patent-pending device detecting tilt, speed and riding behaviour of two-wheeler riders.
World 1 — Open source 2017 – 2018
- Google Summer of Code 2018, The Processing Foundation: open-source debugger for the p5.js Android compiler.
- Google Code-In mentor, FOSSASIA.
- Published: iBeacon-based Indoor Positioning Systems for Airports (IJCA, 2018).
Inventory
- Backend
- Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Express, REST, GraphQL
- Languages
- Ruby, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, SQL
- Data
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, TimescaleDB, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka
- AI / LLM
- AWS Bedrock, LLM orchestration and evaluation, token-cost engineering, MCP tooling
- Infra
- AWS, Kubernetes, Sidekiq, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, observability, on-call
- Practices
- A/B and rollout systems, release engineering, security hardening, team leadership, mentorship
Education
B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, GGSIPU, New Delhi, 2019.