Shankar Manian

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

19+ years in scalable distributed platform development.
Expert in building and leading high-performance engineering teams.
Presented at major industry summits like Spark and Kafka.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a strong focus on distributed systems and data analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsAgile MethodologiesBig DataData AnalysisHadoopData MiningSoftware Design

Other Skills

Scalable ArchitectureSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Team BuildingTeam LeadershipETLRESTful WebServicesFinancial Data AnalyticsUI DevelopmentBackend InfrastructureOnline ServicesTest Driven DevelopmentWindows Programming.NETC++ LanguageC#

About

19+ years of experience designing, developing and managing scalable, distributed platforms. Passionate about software quality. I strongly believe agility comes from high quality not by sacrificing it. Driven software quality initiatives throughout my career. Built multiple teams from grounds up, turned around underperforming teams, improved team culture and productivity. Coached and mentored many engineers and played an instrumental role in their success. Presented @ Spark Summit, Dataworks Summit and Kafka Summit

Experience

25 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Hevo data

Head of Engineering

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Leading the engineering function for Hevo Data. If building large scale data platforms interest you, ping me. Hiring across all roles and levels.

Distributed SystemsAgile MethodologiesScalable ArchitectureSoftware DesignSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Team Building+1

Startree

India Site Lead

Dec 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Stripe

Engineering Leadership

Jan 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Recko inc.

Sr. Director of Engineering

Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Flipkart

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs

Leading the Financial Data Engineering team. We manage the lifecycle of all Financial Transactions across flipkart group of companies. We are building
Large scale event stream reconciliation, failure handling and Anomaly Detection to ensure 100% data correctness and completeness
Scalable Ledger Database that can provide immutability, out of order processing and audit trail out of the box.
Streaming pipelines and RESTful webservices to provide real time aggregation and querying of financial data
Massive ETL pipelines and PowerBI dashboards to provide Financial data analytics and intelligence.
You can find more at the following presentations of our work
https://kafka-summit.org/sessions/kafka-financial-data-processing-flipkart-way/
Hiring across all engineering levels. Reach out to me if you are interested.

Big DataData AnalysisETLRESTful WebServicesFinancial Data Analytics

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · bangalore

Leading the grid productivity team in bangalore. Empowering hadoop developers at linkedin to be more productive with their time and cluster resources. Our vision is to build a comprehensive and well integrated suite of applications that makes SDLC of hadoop development easier and more intuitive. Scope of our work includes developing UI applications and supporting backend infrastructure, instrumentation and profiling of hadoop jobs, real time and offline data pipeline for metrics, data analysis and exploration to detect patterns of bad jobs and much more. Some of our early work that is open sourced are
https://github.com/linkedin/dr-elephant
https://github.com/linkedin/linkedin-gradle-plugin-for-apache-hadoop
Links to presentations of our work
https://databricks.com/session/beyond-unit-tests-end-to-end-testing-for-spark-workflows
https://www.slideshare.net/ShankarManian/real-time-monitoring-of-hadoop-and-spark-workflows
https://databricks.com/session/tunein-how-to-get-your-hadoop-spark-jobs-tuned-while-you-are-sleeping
https://databricks.com/session/conquering-hadoop-and-apache-spark-with-operational-intelligence

Microsoft india

2 roles

Senior Software Development Manager

Jul 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Team Lead and Technical Lead for the Rich Ads Experience team. We develop decorations for the Ads to make it richer, more personalized and more relevant. Areas of work include data mining, analysis, exploration, ingestion and online serving stack for such decorations.

HadoopData AnalysisUI DevelopmentBackend Infrastructure

Senior Software Design Engineer

Jul 2001 – Jul 2013 · 12 yrs

Designed and developed several scalable, distributed systems from scratch.
Hold a Patent for Distributed Task Execution without a centralized server to co-ordinate.

Data MiningData AnalysisOnline Services