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 | Lantum Healthcare

• 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.

2018 - Today | Founder & Full-Stack Engineer | Charity Hackers

• 2 months: Lead the rebuild of the eahub.org for Rethink Charity which involved building a brand new platform from scratch with volunteers and migrating all 2000+ users and 300+ groups across to the new site. It is now the central online community for the Effective Altruism movement globally.
• 4 months: Helped the data engineering efforts at Suvita in connecting their SMS vaccination reminder platform to government data sources, enabling more children in rural India to get vaccinated from life-threatening diseases.
• 2 months: Started covid-ready.org in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic where we launched multiple campaigns along with #StayHome which reached 1M/month.
• 6 months: Built an emergency telemedicine platform during the COVID-19 pandemic with 32-Stories where we processed 1065 dental emergencies in the UK during lockdown and carried out 748 online video consultations using technology I built. Helping keep NHS England's emergency services running.
• 1 month: Helped kick start the OpenCell Mobile COVID19 Testing Labs open source web platform for rapid automation using Opentrons OT2 liquid handling robots, allowing a single operator to run the laboratory and deliver 92 tests every 45 minutes (more than 2,400 tests every 24 hours). I personally helped build the original barcode scanning system for COVID19 tests and mobile web platform.
• 6 months: Co-founded DentalTriage where I built a HIPAA compliant communication platform to handle healthcare records between emergency dental care providers in NHS England. The project was formally accepted under a procurement framework by NHSX and is awaiting national rollout.
• 1yr 8 months: Senior full-stack engineer specializing in Python, React & Nextjs engineering for UNAIDS, helping to run the UNAIDS AIDS Data Repository with Fjelltopp. I recently led the implementation of a large Next.js app, The UNAIDS Navigator which is open source here and demoed here.

Hiring me

• Contract Full-Stack Engineer for £1337/day - Not actively looking
• Significant discount for charities, please see charityhackers.com
• Since signing The Pledge in 2017, I donate 10% of all income to charity

Lantum | Lead Backend Developer | Douglas Hindson

Lantum | CTO | Michael Skelly

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    )
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