Manivannan Selvaraj

CEO

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India17 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in software engineering leadership.
Expert in building scalable solutions in cloud environments.
Active contributor to open source projects and community.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on cloud computing and continuous integration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Big DataCloud ComputingContinuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkApache AirflowApacheLeadershipDistributed SystemsDevOpsChef.ioTerraformPython (Programming Language)GitSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Private EquityEarly-Stage Startups

About

Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling software across many platforms. I design and architect large systems in public and private clouds using Big Data, Apache Spark, Chef, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Mesos and Aurora. If it has logs and can break at odd hours, I have probably worked on it. I have a solid track record of solving complex problems, improving operations and saving costs. I contribute to open source and maintain the Jenkins Mesos plugin. I enjoy mentoring engineers and helping teams grow because people keep calling me a Tech Lead and I try to live up to that title. Along the way, I have received a few awards for my work, which I take as proof that doing good work still gets noticed. These days I am interested only in startups. I love building from scratch, fixing chaos, shaping engineering culture and helping teams scale.

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Stealth

Tech Advisor

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

Experian

Principal Engineer

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr · India · Remote

Working on large-scale distributed systems that process terabytes of data. My work involves building robust data pipelines using Python, Apache Spark, and Apache Airflow, all deployed on AWS. Focus on delivering high-performance, scalable solutions that power critical business insights.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingBig DataApache SparkApache Airflow

Career break

Relocation

May 2024 – Sep 2024 · 4 mos · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

I needed this break to settle down since I made a move back to my hometown Coimbatore from Silicon Valley, USA.

Salesforce

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Oct 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Joined Salesforce through Salesforce's acquisition of Slack.
Design and release platform to execute automated workflows for releasing high quality software.
Leading and Mentoring the team.
Partner with different product development teams in Slack, identifying problems, coming with projects to solve them.
Design and build automated solutions to improve current systems.
Build next-generation platforms for deploying and releasing.
Help design and build tools/platforms for continuous delivery.
Build a solid foundation of fast reliable deploy/release tools and scale them to continue to work seamlessly in the future.
Responsible for improving developer productivity with a focus on building automated, fast and reliable continuous deployment and release platforms.
Automate manual steps and help build workflows for the deployment pipeline.
Create and maintain platform and tooling for continuous deployment support for developers.

ApacheCloud ComputingLeadershipDistributed SystemsDevOpsChef.io+5

Slack

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco, California

Design and release platform to execute automated workflows for releasing high quality software.
Leading and Mentoring the team.
Partner with different product development teams in Slack, identifying problems, coming with projects to solve them.
Design and build automated solutions to improve current systems.
Build next-generation platforms for deploying and releasing.
Help design and build tools/platforms for continuous delivery.
Build a solid foundation of fast reliable deploy/release tools and scale them to continue to work seamlessly in the future.
Responsible for improving developer productivity with a focus on building automated, fast and reliable continuous deployment and release platforms.
Automate manual steps and help build workflows for the deployment pipeline.
Create and maintain platform and tooling for continuous deployment support for developers.

ApacheCloud ComputingLeadershipDistributed SystemsDevOpsChef.io+5

Paypal

3 roles

Member Of Technical Staff

Oct 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

ApacheSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Cloud ComputingLeadershipDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)+4

Software Engineer - 3

Mar 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

ApacheSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Cloud ComputingLeadershipDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)+4

Software Engineer - 3

Oct 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

Designed, developed, implemented and supported private cloud based federated continuous integration platform for PayPal using Jenkins, Apache Mesos, Jenkins - Mesos plugin and Apache Aurora scheduler.
Improved open source tools to fit the needs of PayPal. Did several open source contributions.
Presented in Engineering Conferences about the CIAAS solution that we implemented for PayPal.

ApacheSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsDevOpsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)+1

Csc

Sr. Software Engineer

Dec 2010 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Worked for client PayPal.
Designed and developed continuous integration platform, which shall build and deploy complex and polyglot PayPal code base.
Developed Unit Testing framework for PayPal C++ and Java code base and helped Software development teams to adapt to it.

ApacheCloud ComputingContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Git

Mettler toledo turing software

Software Engineer

Jul 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

Designed and developed Software, which shall be the unique platform for Mettler Toledo precision instruments.
Implemented best practices like unit-testing framework, nightly builds to improve the quality of software and to make software developer’s life easy.

ApacheCloud ComputingContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Git

Pivot systems

Sr Software Engineer

Mar 2007 – May 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Designed, developed and delivered software for diverse clients on different domains like Video Surveillance, Device Drivers and Real time systems.
Involved in Hiring Talent and mentoring them.