Manoj Nathwani

Summary


  • 3.0 yrs | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Various projects
  • 1.5 yrs | Babylon Health | Technical Lead in Rwanda
  • 1.5 yrs | UNAIDS | United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
  • 0.5 yrs | NHS England | Emergency COVID Triage Platform
  • 4.0 yrs | Started and sold my startup | Price Trakker
  • Built a profitable start-up at the age of 17 worth £1.05M within 4 years
  • Full-stack engineer with 15yrs experience, 11yrs before ChatGPT launched
  • Attended 30 hackathons and came in first, second or third place in 24

Experience


Today

  • Open to hybrid/remote work in healthtech
  • Salary expectation of £120k
  • Significant discount for charities, NGOs and Global Health projects
  • Since signing The Pledge in 2017, I donate 10% of all income to charity

2024 - Present | Senior Product Engineer | Telemedicine abc

  • Working with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda to build a fully-featured equitable telemedicine platform made for low-resource settings.
  • Launching a telemedicine platform in The Democratic Republic of Congo with Avenir Mère-Enfant to provide free medical advice to those affected by the humanitarian crisis in North Kivu.

2021 - 2023 | Senior Product Engineer | Babylon Health

  • 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 provider babyl.rw. We usually conducted 2500 telemedicine appointments a day.
  • Integrated AI Triage solutions on behalf of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Digitally Transforming Rwanda's Health Centres fund.
  • Visited Rwanda and contributed to stakeholder management and scoping sessions with with RSSB (Rwanda Social Security Board) and Nida (National Identification Agency) along with the Ministry of Health.
  • Maintained all JavaScript projects in the team with high test coverage, documentation and compatibility across all our deployments.
  • Assisted in the the migration of the Babyl technology to the Rwandan local government when our parent company, Babylon Health became insolvent.

2018 - 2021 | 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. Led the implementation of a large Next.js app; The UNAIDS Navigator which is open source here and demoed here.

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.

Babylon Health | 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.

Lantum | Lead Backend Developer | Douglas Hindson

Manoj ships. He's great to pair program with and has always been a productive team member. We've often relied on him to grok and integrate external APIs. He's solid at executing on greenfield projects and has always been willing to dive deep into legacy systems to fix bugs. He has great intuition about how dev teams should work and is excellent at communicating with devs and non-devs alike.

Updated September 2025

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