MANOJ
Work ResumeLet's talk
A LITTLE EXPLORATION
Bengaluru, IndiaBuilt with curiosity.
APPLICATION DEVELOPERBENGALURU, INDIA

ENGINEERING WITH INTENTION.

Complex problems.
Thoughtful solutions.

I build dependable software, connect ideas, and make complex systems a little more human.

Explore my work The person behind it
OPEN TO THOUGHTFUL OPPORTUNITIESSCULPTURE STUDY / STILL VIEWSCROLL TO DISCOVER
01 / THE MINDSET

The best software doesn't just work. It makes complexity feel simple.

BUILD. UNDERSTAND. IMPROVE.

From backend systems to tools people actually use.
Curiosity is the constant.

02 / SELECTED WORK

Ideas, made real.

A few things I've built.
Each one taught me something.

KEEP SCROLLING
01/ 03
More from the workbench

Also on the workbench.

EXPERIMENTS & EARLIER BUILDS
ENGINEERING / RECENT INTEGRATIONS

Built into
real products.

Recent work connecting payment
and AI services to platform workflows.

PAYMENTS / PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Stripe payments, from scratch.

Integrated Stripe payments into a platform from the ground up, bringing payment capabilities into the product.

  • Stripe
  • Payment integration
  • Platform workflows
Open the connection
  1. Platform
  2. Stripe
  3. Payments

Built the connection to Stripe as platform functionality. Open the illustration to follow the relationship between the product, the payment service, and the workflows it enables.

APPLIED AI / API INTEGRATION

OpenAI, in the platform.

Integrated OpenAI APIs into a platform so AI capabilities could be used from within its existing workflows.

  • OpenAI API
  • API integration
  • Product workflows
Open the connection
  1. Platform request
  2. OpenAI API
  3. Platform response

My contribution was the API integration: connecting the platform to OpenAI so its capabilities could be used by product workflows. The illustration opens up the request, service, and response relationship.

High-level illustrations of my integration work. No live transactions or API calls run here.

03 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE CODEHELLO, I'M MANOJ.
Manoj at a developer event in Bengaluru
BENGALURU, INDIAALWAYS CURIOUS.

A builder's mind.
A human point of view.

I like the moment a complicated problem starts to make sense.

I build backend services, practical developer tools and products around everyday problems. My work brings together application development, typed integrations and AI experiments that leave room for people to review and decide.

My background is in backend and application development. I'm just as interested in the tools that make a team's work easier, the details that make a product usable, and the ideas worth explaining to someone else.

Build with intention.Understand the why.Keep getting better.
A little more about me
04 / EXPERIENCE

Learning by
building.

Real teams. Real constraints.
A growing sense of what matters.

Read my resume
Oct 2025 - PresentNOW

Indihood

Application Developer

Bengaluru, India

Contributing to application development with an emphasis on typed service integrations, repeatable development setup and maintainable TypeScript.

  • Contribute to typed service integrations, making inputs and responses easier to reason about.
  • Build predictable test data and test-setup tooling to make development checks more repeatable.
  • Support incremental TypeScript modernization while preserving existing behavior.
May 2025 - Oct 2025

Zoho

Member Technical Staff

Madurai, India

Worked on backend APIs and product features spanning catalog discovery, content delivery and user feedback.

  • Contributed to typo-tolerant catalog search and paginated API responses.
  • Worked on image-delivery behavior within application flows.
  • Helped develop feedback and moderation features and their backend behavior.
Sep 2024 - May 2025

Zoho

Technical Trainee

Madurai, India

Built a foundation in backend development while contributing to application features and learning to work within an engineering team.

  • Contributed to API and backend development through hands-on feature work.
  • Worked on template integration and certificate-related application flows.
  • Collaborated with teammates to understand requirements and iterate on implementation.
05 / KNOWLEDGE IN PRACTICE

A toolkit.
Not a trophy shelf.

Tools change. The way I approach
a problem keeps getting sharper.

THE BUILD SPACEA LITTLE LOOK UNDER THE HOOD

Where the
pieces connect.

A few technologies I use, and the things I've made with them.

EXPLORE A LAYER
IN PRACTICE / College project

Explore GCE Placify

A college placement project connecting student profiles, job eligibility criteria and application review.

IN PRACTICE / Public prototype

Explore Snitch

AI-assisted screenshot review for possible dark patterns, with evidence to inspect and a grievance draft to edit.

IN PRACTICE / Hackathon submission

Explore CloudCollabEdit

A document-collaboration project submitted to IBM-SmartInternz Hack Challenge 2023, including my Docker and OpenShift deployment contribution.

ILLUSTRATED TOOLKIT. REAL PROJECTS.EXPLORE ABOVE / GO DEEPER BELOW
01

Languages & backend

Java and SQL for backend work, TypeScript for typed application code, and C++ for algorithmic practice.

  • Java
  • SQL
  • C++
  • TypeScript
In practice
WHERE IT SHOWS UP

Applied through API development, query design, incremental code modernization and regular problem-solving practice.

02

Integrations & data

Making application boundaries explicit: inputs, data contracts, permissions and the way clients move through results.

  • REST APIs
  • Authentication
  • PostgreSQL / Neon
  • Pagination
  • Search
  • Protocol Buffers
  • Stripe payments
In practice
WHERE IT SHOWS UP

Typed service integrations and data-backed project workflows, including a from-scratch Stripe payment integration and additional exposure to Protocol Buffers.

03

Tooling & reliability

Practical tools for repeatable setup, understandable changes and less manual development work.

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Test fixtures
  • Workflow automation
  • OpenShift
  • GCP
In practice
WHERE IT SHOWS UP

Predictable test data and setup tooling, project deployment with Docker and OpenShift, and ongoing familiarity with GCP.

04

Applied AI & product exploration

Connecting existing models to useful interfaces while making their outputs visible, reviewable and open to question.

  • Gemini API
  • OpenAI API
  • Teachable Machine
  • TensorFlow.js
  • Browser APIs
  • Human-reviewed AI
In practice
WHERE IT SHOWS UP

Platform-level OpenAI API integration, screenshot review in Snitch, and camera-based classification in Terrain Recognizer, with a focus on integration and user judgment rather than model-training claims.

06 / FOUNDATIONS & MILESTONES

The journey
adds up.

A foundation in computer science.
A habit of showing up and making things.

2021 - 2025

B.E. Computer Science and Engineering

Government College of Engineering Tirunelveli

Studied computer science while building college and personal projects, practicing algorithms and taking part in collaborative development challenges.

CGPA 8.47
Manoj attending the Build with AI bootcamp in Bengaluru
OUT OF THE EDITOR. INTO THE ROOM.Build with AI / Bengaluru
01
Academic recognition

Best Outgoing Student

Recognized by the Computer Science department at Government College of Engineering Tirunelveli.

02
Problem-solving practice

850+ coding problems

A recorded milestone across GeeksforGeeks, LeetCode and CodeChef, alongside a historical 116-day practice streak.

03
Bootcamp participation / Sep 2026

Build with AI, Bengaluru

Participated in the September 2026 Build with AI bootcamp and worked on Snitch, exploring AI-assisted screenshot review through a hands-on product build.

More context
04
Hackathon participation / 2023

IBM-SmartInternz Hack Challenge

Contributed to the team's CloudCollabEdit submission, including Docker containerization and OpenShift deployment.

More context
07 / NOTES FROM THE WORKBENCH

Understand it.
Then pass it on.

Selected thoughts from my
1% Better Backend Engineer series.