Manoj Nathwani

2012 - 2014 | Student Partner | Microsoft

• Worked on developer outreach by evangelising their products to students by running regular hackathons, and talking at conferences such as Campus Party.
• Helped influenced Microsoft's strategy to communicating effectively to students by providing feedback to key stakeholders on our impact.
• Eventually became their go-to-guy for all questions relating to using the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform and evangelising it to other entrepreneurs.

2011 - 2015 | Founder & CTO | Price Trakker

• Started Price Trakker during my first year of university while studying Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) BSc at Brunel University London in 2011.
• Dropped out of university and joined the True Start accelerator program with a valuation of £1.05M as a bootstrapped profitable start-up.
• Built a system to handle hundreds of web scrapers, analysing large scale datasets and algorithmically changing the pricing structure of our customer's products on a daily basis. In 2015 we were scraping just under 3000 websites every day.
• Built a tech stack with a very high SLA which gave us the confidence to bring on customers such as Samsung, LG, Maplin, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda & Wiggle.

2015 - 2017 | Backend Python Developer | Network Locum

• Joined the health tech company as the 4th developer as the lead of internal tooling which our operations team used to become significantly more efficient.
• Lead the quality assurance processes of our iPhone app being made by an external digital agency which gave us the confidence to deliver features.
• Played a key role in rebuilding our entire tech stack from a large django monolith and to containerized microservices running on Docker, tested with TDD & BDD.
• Rebuilt our payments platform which now processes nearly £0.5M in automated transactions every month with full confidence in nothing going wrong. Something we very much needed earlier!
• Lead a team as part of a greenfield project for Uber on behalf of the company to help decrease dropout of driver onboarding in London by a whopping 90%. This project was start to finish in only 2 weeks, a great success we learnt from.

Today | Contract Full-Stack Engineer

• Contract Full-Stack Engineer for £1,000/day (Not actively looking)
• 50-100% discount for charities & social enterprises.

Network Locum | Lead Backend Developer | Douglas Hindson

Network Locum | CTO | Michael Skelly

manoj = Developer.objects
    .filter(
        skills=[Skills.BACKEND, Skills.FRONTEND, Skills.WEEKEND],
        worked_with__contains=self
    )
    .exclude(
        hackathons_won__lt=50,
        hackathons_attended__lt=100,
        hackathons_organized__lt=1
    )
    .annotate(
        other_skills=['passion', 'intelligence','creativity']
    )
    .order_by('agility')
    .desc()
    .first()

    self.recommend(manoj)

    # TODO: work with Manoj