May 2025 – Jun 2025 · 1 mo

Feb 2025 – Feb 2025 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• https://www.civo.com/navigate/north-america/speakers

Dec 2024 – Dec 2024 · 0 mo

• Engaged as an Alumni Panelist at San José State University, sharing insights and experiences with eager students.
• Collaborated with esteemed co-panelists to inspire and guide students on their academic and career paths.

Oct 2024 – Oct 2024 · 0 mo · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

• Delivered a captivating session at GHC2024 with 382 engaged attendees, leading to extended Q&A and positive feedback.
• Received overwhelming praise for shaping attendees' career paths, making a significant impact at the conference.
• Connected with industry leaders, gaining valuable insights and inspiration for personal and professional growth.

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

• Manasa is one of the core engineers of AEP Real-Time Customer Data 'Collaboration' Platform [Adobe's latest innovation in the world of digital advertising]. Played a pivotal role as one of key engineers in the core team for the AEP Real-Time Customer Data 'Collaboration' Platform General Availability project, successfully launched on February 20, 2025.
• More details at: https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/02/adobe-real-time-cdp-collab-ga,
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250220778009/en/Adobe-Announces-General-Availability-of-Real-Time-CDP-Collaboration-for-Brands-to-Jointly-Drive-Ad-Performance-in-a-Privacy-First-Landscape
• Work includes:
• Building innovative features for the Portal to enhance decision-making within the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) ecosystem.
• Developing tools that enable real-time collaboration and ensure a seamless user experience for stakeholders managing customer data.
• Partnering with product managers, UX designers, and data engineers to ensure the portal meets business and user requirements.
• Participating in design reviews, offering feedback, and ensuring alignment with broader platform goals. Writing, testing, and maintaining high-quality, reusable code that adheres to industry standards.
• Optimizing workflows for integrating diverse data sources.
• Analyzing user feedback to identify areas for improvement and prioritize feature enhancements.

Apr 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

• As a senior customer-facing engineer, I work closely with customers to understand their data analytics needs, analyze their data and data processing capabilities, and then develop software to enable customers to interact with Selector's platform for operational intelligence.
• I work through all phases of the software development life cycle, i.e., gathering customer requirements, designing solutions, building proof of concepts, code development, system testing, user testing, and deployment.
• The technologies I use in building data pipelines include programming languages such as Python and Java, databases such as Prometheus, MongoDB, loki, and Splunk, and defining data queries to extract, validate, and analyze data.
• I also work on integrating software modules using the rest API and message buses such as Kafka.

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mos · Belmont, California, United States

• Worked with the Innovation team, where I worked on optimizing the code strategies.
• Built APIs in microservice-based architecture
• Created test strategies for existing APIs
• Researched and developed an automation test framework for both front-end and back-end
• Proposed and demonstrated the solution for an automation test framework using Protractor JS

Sep 2020 – May 2021 · 8 mos · San Jose, California, United States

• As a design lead of Developer Student Clubs SJSU, my responsibilities were to
• Design software solutions and application frameworks for local businesses
• Conduct technical workshops
• Manage the club's website

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 · 4 mos

• As the Teaching Assistant with Professor. Simon Shim, for the class CMPE 257 - Machine Learning, I am responsible for clarifying any conceptual doubts, creating assignments, grading them, and regulating TA office hours.

Sep 2019 – May 2020 · 8 mos

• Developed Python scripts to automate grading 60 students’ homework assignments and rubric for the course CMPE 180A: Algorithms and Data Structures. Worked under Professor. Juan Gomez.

Jan 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

May 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Jose, California, United States

• Project FIXT – Fixed and deployed priority security issues on Splunk cloud and enterprise and mentored the team
• Project EATON – Built a robust model that supports and automated use cases to validate Splunk-to-instances communication, received appreciation from stakeholders
• Project DMC – Developed a zero-defect security framework that ensures app communication only on secure protocol and a valid list of certificates on API calls
• Product SplunkForAll – Submitted in the annual Splunk Hackathon, for the Customer Satisfaction category
• Received Engineering Spotlight for demonstration of Machine Learning for Splunk

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked with the Platform Engineering team
• Contributed to the department success by developing an administrative configuration utility to set up external reference rate providers
• My contribution allows Taulia to migrate a labor-intensive, SQL script-based configuration process to the business by using web-based forms with input validations
• This process adjustment increases business' visibility into the system by listing all existing provider configurations
• Collaborated with a team of three Senior Software Engineers, a Software Quality Engineer, a Product Manager, and an Engineering Manager to identify the project scope and translate the requirements into executable user stories
• Closely collaborated with the engineering team during the development phase to build out the user interface according to Taulia's internal tool standards using Groovy, Grails utilizing REST-ful web services that persist the configuration in a MySQL backed database
• Utilized test-driven development practices and met Taulia's rigorous test and software quality expectations
• Completed the project and deployed it into the production environment well ahead of time

Feb 2020 – Feb 2020 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed the award-winning app "Run4It" for the DeveloperWeek 2020 Rockstar Routing challenge, securing 2nd place.
• Collaborated with professors and mentors to refine app functionality and user experience.

Jan 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

• Led the design strategy and visual branding of the club, ensuring a consistent and engaging user experience across all digital platforms and event materials.
• Designed promotional assets, including social media graphics, event banners, and presentations, to support technical workshops and community outreach initiatives.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align design efforts with the club's mission of fostering peer-to-peer learning and professional growth.
• Created visually compelling materials for workshops focused on Google developer tools, helping students grasp complex concepts through intuitive design.
• Mentored students on UI/UX best practices, empowering them to contribute effectively to club projects and real-world solutions.
• Assisted in organizing and executing events that connected students from diverse backgrounds and majors, enhancing their learning experience and professional network.
• Developed branding guidelines and templates to maintain consistency across all club communications and promotional efforts.
• Engaged with the broader community to showcase the impact of the club’s initiatives and inspire new members to participate and contribute.

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos

• Sole United States recipient of the Facebook Deep Learning Scholarship 2020

Jan 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, California, United States

• There are two tracks in the traditional program, the communication track and the leadership track. The core of the communication track is the Competent Communicator manual. It contains 10 speech projects to help you gain the basic skills needed to present an effective speech.
• The core of the leadership track is the Competent Leader manual. It contains 10 leadership projects to help develop the basic skills needed to be an effective leader.

Jan 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Celcom Dealer Hierarchy: Dashboard
• Extensive implementation on Data analytics.
• Responsible for the complete design, development and delivery of the fast growing reporting tool and dashboard.
• A complete dynamic web application which reports the detailed performance and statistics of all the dealers and stores in the peninsular Malaysia.
• Delivered the application from end-to-end right from the user requirements till the delivery.
• High performance and ultimate fast access for which the users appreciation is received.
• Enabled customization, multiple roles and restrictions; dynamic workflow for Head office, regional and individual store views of the dashboard and respective actions in it.
• Celcom Centouch and Online Customer Care Service Portals:
• Website: https://www.celcom.com.my/
• Responsible to deliver the change requests from the users and deliver them to meet the growing business requirements.
• Two major online e-commerce applications which are used by the end customers and dealers.
• Two applications under one system with competitive frameworks of ATG and WCP.
• Responsive web application with secured interfaces to all the BSS systems.
• Celcom BSS Reporting Tool
• An end-to-end high performance web application to generate daily reports from all the BSS systems.
• Responsible for complete design, solution and delivery.
• Enabled offline data extraction and scheduled reports with daily, weekly and monthly frequencies.
• Delivered the change requests from the users and deliver them to meet the growing business requirements.
• Used Play framework with Scala integrated in Linux for light weight, fast access in the application.
• Responsible for the complete design, development and establishment of the testing environment.
• Worked on server setup, DB setup, application installation and automation.

Jun 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Celcom Dealer Benefit Program : Kings Club and Zoom Hub
• Responsible for the design, development, setup, installation, configuration and delivery of the dynamic web application.
• Single-handed development and delivery of the project.
• Graphical dashboard, visitation work flow wizard, reports, approval work flow are the key modules.
• The application enables business to evaluate all the dealer performance daily and award them incentives. This is customized and automated.
• Celcom Xpax CS Web Tool
• Responsible for the complete end-to-end design, development and delivery of the high performance statistical dashboard.
• An online customer care application for the end-customers to lodge complaints, check the ticket status and get them resolved.
• Delivered dynamic, responsive and high performance tool.
• Celcom XPAX Prepaid Mobile App
• A challenging role. Delivered a high quality Prepaid mobile App for a leading Telecom client.
• Responsible for Unit, System and Integration testing of the app.
• Tested all the business and technical cases with a complete sound knowledge of the customer requirements.
• Won all domains "Best Team" award for our team work.
• Received great appreciations from all the stakeholders.
• Got a huge recognition for the role play as a skilled tester being a developer and a team member.
• Celcom OIC : Oracle Incentive Compensation
• A tool to plan the commission; calculate and publish incentives to all the dealers across the peninsular Malaysia.
• Delivered the change requests from the users and deliver them to meet the growing business requirements.
• Data interfaces from upstream CRM (Siebel) and Kenan and downstream SAP systems.
• Handled the weekly incentives module.
• Delivered automation on the incentive calculation.

Jan 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Tata Teleservices IT Service Management Enabler (ITSME)
• Developed IT Service Continuity Management, Operations Dashboard, Availability Management, Event Management modules.
• An ITIL V3 based application to enable complete IT service management.
• Developed Operations Dashboard (OD), Event Management (EM) and Availability Management (AM) Modules.
• Designed Continuous Service Management (CSM) module.
• Established device compatibility and browser compatibility for the legacy tools.