Manish Rastogi - Resume
Software Engineer
📧 manish.rastogi94@gmail.com
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🧠 Professional Summary
Accomplished Senior/Staff Backend Engineer with 9+ years of experience architecting, developing, and scaling high-performance distributed systems and AI-powered platforms. Proven ability to lead projects from conception to deployment, leveraging expertise in Python, LLMs, microservices, cloud computing (AWS/Azure), and various data stores. Adept at optimizing system performance, reducing costs, and delivering robust, scalable solutions both independently and as a team leader.
💼 Experience
🛠️ Software Engineer (Contract) – Docsum
February 2025 – June 2025
- Engineered a scalable, Hatchet-based asynchronous task processing system, incorporating monitoring and audit capabilities to handle high-volume workloads efficiently.
- Architected the external apps integration framework for integrating Google Drive, OneDrive and other such apps.
- Built a system creating knowledge graphs to identify inter-document relationships using pgRouting and LLMs.
Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, Hatchet, Supabase
December 2022 – Present
- TwingBot: AI-powered Slackbot for task management in Slack, saving 30+ mins/day, used by 200 people.
- Legaling: RAG-based legal research & case management platform using Azure Vector DB, OpenAI, and Azure Search.
- TwingParse: AI-powered system for template-based data extraction from diverse documents using OCR, language identification, and parsing algorithms.
- TwingTranslate: AI translation system for Indian languages. Handles scanned & digital docs via
textract, tesseract, and langdetect.
Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWS, Azure, LangChain, LlamaIndex
🚀 Technical Lead – SalaryBox
April 2022 – July 2022
- Reduced infrastructure/AWS costs by 30%: Migrated to ARM servers, ran performance tests for rightsizing.
- Led team of 10+ engineers, responsible for hiring & training.
- Built scalable Notification Engine with real-time updates.
- Integrated monitoring & test rerun tooling for improved system reliability.
- Implemented request replay capabilities in test environments.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Redis, MySQL, AWS, Celery
💼 Senior Software Engineer – Instawork
October 2021 – April 2022
- Implemented fraud detection for tipping using average-user analysis.
- Developed multi-touchpoint tipping feature based on rating scores, increasing client tipping by 15%.
- Built multiple platform features to increase user engagement.
- Contributed to product discussions and roadmap planning.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, JavaScript, Django Templates
📊 Software Engineer – Quadeye Securities
February 2017 – December 2020
- Built real-time trading interface: Visualized up to 3000 datapoints/sec with alerting & command interface.
- Improved event handling throughput from 5K → 1M events/day.
- Leveraged WebSockets, Redis, async queues, and heavy caching for performance optimization.
- Developed rich visual trading platforms and real-time trade analysis tools.
- Created automation tools to reduce manual tasks and improve trader efficiency.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Redis, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AWS, Celery
💻 Software Engineer – Ishi Systems Inc.
December 2015 – January 2017
- Worked on image/video processing with Intel Media SDK and Golang.
- Implemented ONVIF-compliant features for security camera systems.
- Wrote production-grade backend and frontend code.
- Handled CI/CD and multi-server deployment processes.
Tech Stack: Python (Django), AngularJS, MySQL, NodeJS, TypeScript, Golang, C
🧠 Technical Skill Set
💻 Programming Languages
Python, JavaScript/NodeJS, Go
⚙️ Frameworks
Django, Flask, FastAPI, jQuery, React
🛢️ Databases & Caching
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase
☁️ DevOps / Cloud / CI-CD
EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, RDS, ELB, Azure VM, Azure Blob, Docker, GitHub CI
GPT, Claude, Llama, Azure Vector DB, LangGraph, LlamaIndex
Cursor, Vercel, Render, PostHog
🔑 Key Areas of Expertise
- Data Structures and Algorithms - Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals
- Distributed Systems & REST APIs - Scalable system architecture and design
- Backend System Development - End-to-end backend development and optimization
- AI System Architecture - Modern AI/ML system design and implementation
- DevOps and Cloud Engineering - Infrastructure automation and cloud deployment
🎓 Education
Nirma University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) – Information Technology
2012 – 2016
Last updated: July 2025