Manuj Paliwal

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering team growth from 3 to 10 members.
  • Built lending platforms for 50+ financial institutions globally.
  • Co-founded Mensari, a cloud-native accounting platform.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AI specialist with extensive experience in software engineering and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Platform ArchitectureRetrieval-augmented Generation (rag)Web3Salesforce.com Development

Other Skills

FastAPIPrompt EngineeringMLOpsLarge Language Models (LLM)Amazon Web Services (AWS)PythonPatternModerationMLLLM toolsPre/post-processing pipelinesS3Google SheetsWebLocal

About

12 years building software systems, mostly in fintech. Grew an engineering team from 3 to 10, went through an acquisition (Cloud Lending → Q2), co-founded Mensari as CTO (Alliance DAO backed). Built lending platforms used by 50+ financial institutions across 4 continents. Now working on AI/ML systems. MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Learned that most technical problems end up being people problems. Good teams ship good systems. Interested in: AI/ML engineering, engineering leadership, hard technical problems.

Experience

12 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Uptiq

Engineering Lead

Jan 2026Present · 3 mos

App0

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Designed 3-layer cascading AI security guardrails (Pattern, Moderation, ML) achieving 93% prompt injection detection at 0ms perceived latency across 65+ attack patterns
  • Architected agentic tool calling framework with 59 LLM tools across 7 categories, supporting pre/post-processing pipelines used across all conversation flows
  • Built RAG Knowledge Base platform with multi-source connectors (S3, Google Sheets, Web, Local) and async retrieval pipeline serving production workloads
  • Designed extensible AI evaluation framework with plugin-based registry supporting 5 evaluator types, enabling systematic quality assessment across models
  • Built conversation analytics platform processing 10,000+ monthly conversations using BERT for semantic matching and topic modeling
  • Optimized batch processing achieving 90% faster deduplication through single-scan optimization; reduced database queries by 80% via in-memory caching
Platform ArchitectureRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)FastAPIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Prompt EngineeringMLOps+3

Mensari

Co-Founder | CTO

May 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Built cloud-native accounting platform for Web3: multi-chain transaction aggregation, ML-powered classification, streaming payments
  • Architected double-entry system supporting fiat, crypto, and NFTs across Ethereum and Polygon with real-time portfolio tracking
  • Shipped to 15 beta customers; strategic wind-down due to market conditions
Web3

Q2

2 roles

Software Development Manager

Feb 2022Apr 2022 · 2 mos

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2018Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Cloud Lending Solutions was acquired by Q2 Software in October 2018.
  • Scaled engineering team from 3 to 8 members through successful Q2 acquisition, delivering highest revenue-generating product
  • Architected multi-tenant loan origination platform serving 50+ financial institutions across North America, UK, Africa, and ANZ
  • Built Rule Engine powering core platform: scorecard generation, document management, pricing, covenants, and task workflows
  • Developed Financial Spreading module for commercial loan analysis; led Salesforce Security Review for enterprise compliance
  • Implemented intelligent bank reconciliation reducing manual effort by 80% through automated matching algorithms
  • Mentored 3 engineers to senior roles; drove market expansion including Australia entry
Salesforce.com Development

Cloud lending solutions

4 roles

Lead Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Jan 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Led technical team building loan origination platform for financial institutions
  • Developed core platform modules: rule engine, document management, and workflow systems
  • Contributed to platform architecture serving multiple customers across North America and UK
  • Mentored junior engineers and contributed to technical strategy
Salesforce.com Development

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2016Dec 2016 · 11 mos

  • Developed and maintained core modules of lending management system
  • Contributed to platform architecture and technical design
  • Worked on Important implementations in UK and Australia
Salesforce.com Development

Software Engineer

Nov 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Salesforce.com Development

Software Developer-Intern

Jun 2013Oct 2013 · 4 mos

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Dec 2025Present

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

B.Tech — computer science and engineering

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