Manoj Nathwani

Health Systems & Technology Lead

£650/day + significant discount for NGOs & charities

Summary

I build technology and data systems that strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries, working directly with Ministries of Health
6 years in global health, 15 years building technology
Work cited in reports by World Bank, World Economic Forum, and INSEAD

Experience

2024 - Present | Technical Lead | Amphi

Co-founded a health economics platform that automates population health analysis for Ministries of Health, insurers, and global health organisations.
Building tools for universal health coverage planning, including health benefits package design, strategic purchasing, cost-effectiveness modelling, and epidemic preparedness.
Integrating health data sources into automated workflows that replace months of consulting work with weeks of platform-guided analysis.
Working with WHO, national health insurance agencies, and Ministries of Health on priority setting and resource allocation.

2020 - Present | Technical Lead | Telemedicine abc

Working with Irembo and the Rwanda Ministry of Health on a national digital health platform covering telemedicine, AI-assisted triage, digital prescriptions, and lab test management.
Partnering with Telekyanmar, a nationwide telemedicine service in Myanmar operating under humanitarian conflict conditions. Secured grant funding from ACX Grants and Open Philanthropy, and running an impact evaluation to prove cost-effectiveness for replication in other crisis-affected regions.
Building RAG-based clinical decision support tools aligned with WHO IMNCI guidelines and Kenya Ministry of Health standards.
Led the technology for Babyl Rwanda, the country's largest digital health service, delivering 4.5 million telemedicine consultations to 2.8 million users via USSD on basic phones. Integrated with national health insurance (Mutuelle de Santé, RSSB) and national ID (NIDA).
Co-founded DentalTriage, a dental telemedicine platform that handled 1,000+ emergencies for NHS England during COVID-19 and was accepted under the NHSX procurement framework.

2021 - 2023 | Senior Product Engineer | Babyl Rwanda

Product owner of the Babyl Clinical Portal, used by 60+ clinicians, 100+ pharmacists and 300+ agents daily to run Rwanda's largest digital health service. We conducted 2,500 telemedicine appointments a day at peak.
Integrated AI triage solutions on behalf of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Digitally Transforming Rwanda's Health Centres initiative.
Contributed to stakeholder management and scoping sessions with RSSB (Rwanda Social Security Board), Nida (National Identification Agency), and the Ministry of Health.
Led the migration of Babyl technology to the Rwandan government when the UK parent company became insolvent, ensuring continuity of a national health service.

2020 - 2022 | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | UNAIDS, via Fjelltopp

Helped build and run the UNAIDS AIDS Data Repository (ADR), used by 43 Ministry of Healths across Africa to manage their HIV/AIDS epidemic data and report it to UNAIDS.
Led the implementation of The UNAIDS Navigator (open source), a large Next.js app used to visualise and interact with HIV/AIDS datasets across countries, improving accessibility for epidemiologists and programme teams.
Led the UX & Front-end efforts within the company for a variety of projects, including the design of a data portal for Malawi Ministry of Health.
Built integrations with health information systems like DHIS2 to automate data flows and improve accuracy of HIV programme inputs.
Worked with epidemiologists and ministry of health teams to translate their requirements into software that supported data quality, audit trails, and evidence-based HIV intervention planning.

2018 - 2021 | Contract Full-Stack Engineer | Charity Hackers

Led the rebuild of eahub.org for Rethink Charity. Built a new platform from scratch and migrated 2,000+ users and 300+ groups. Now the central online community for the Effective Altruism movement globally.
Data engineering for Suvita, connecting their SMS vaccination reminder platform to government data sources and enabling more children in rural India to get vaccinated.
Helped kick start the OpenCell Mobile COVID19 Testing Labs open source platform. Built the barcode scanning system for COVID-19 tests, enabling 2,400+ tests per 24 hours.

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.

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.
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.

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.

Recommendations

The Centre for Effective Altruism | Program Manager | Michal Trzesimiech

Manoj is an exceptional software developer whose dedication and talent shine through in everything he creates. I witnessed his remarkable abilities firsthand when he single-handedly built a complex software solution from the ground up, delivering it in record time while working pro-bono. His boundless creativity and tireless work ethic were truly inspiring. What sets Manoj apart is his natural ability to take complete ownership of a project, combining technical excellence with outstanding initiative. He didn't just write code - he breathed life into ideas, consistently exceeding everyone's expectations with innovative solutions. His speed of delivery and creative problem-solving were absolutely crucial to the project's success. Manoj's combination of technical skill, reliability, and genuine passion for creating exceptional software makes him a rare find in the industry. Any team would be fortunate to have him driving their technical initiatives forward.

Babyl Rwanda | Engineering Manager | Konstantine Ujmajuridze

I have been working with Manoj for over a year. During his time under my supervision, Manoj has displayed an exceptional level of dedication, commitment, and natural leadership in our team. Shortly after joining, he took ownership of all the front-end projects within my team and worked directly with stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment. He is passionate about enhancing the user experience (UX) as well as having deep technical knowledge. Additionally, his ability to lead various projects and communicate effectively has made him not only an asset but also one of the key members of the team.

Fjelltopp | CEO | Jonathan Berry

Manoj is a an excellent communicator, a great team player, and a creative engineer. He has successfully lead the design and implementation of multiple frontend JavaScript components for our company using React and NextJS. He welcomes feedback and actively pursues personal development and growth. He is passionate about using tech for social good, and has been well aligned with our team values. It has been great to have him on team.