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Engineering production systems

Manish Kini

Senior Software Engineer

Backend / Full Stack

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I build production systems, infrastructure, and AI products—and lead engineering teams while staying close to the code.

Profile

About

Backend-focused software engineer with 6+ years of experience building production systems across healthcare, fintech, AI and industrial IoT. I enjoy working on products from architecture through deployment and have led engineering teams while remaining hands-on with development.

6+ years
Production engineering
Backend-heavy
Full-stack delivery
Hands-on
Technical leadership

Career

Experience

Selected responsibilities and systems—not a transcript of every task.

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    Recro / CareValidate

    Sep 2025 – Jul 2026

    India · Remote

    Led a three-engineer Platform team across initiative scoping, system design, pull-request reviews, and mentoring.

    • Built medication auto-ordering that handled roughly 3,000–5,000 of approximately 10,000 daily orders.
    • Built Redis-based rate limiting scoped by organization and endpoint.
    • Built Redis-powered order-prefill workflows for support teams.
  2. Senior Full Stack Developer

    Pazago

    Jun 2024 – Sep 2025

    Mumbai · On-site

    Worked across two products, taking systems from early architecture through production delivery while growing into engineering leadership.

    Provue

    Joined as the first engineer and built the backend and RAG foundation for a configurable multi-agent platform.

    • Helped the product grow to 10,000+ registered users and approximately 100 production agents.
    • Built RAG ingestion and retrieval with Mastra and pgvector, plus agent configuration, prompts, MCP tools, plugins, and configurable LLMs.
    • Set up AWS infrastructure and CI/CD, then led an eight-engineer backend/frontend team while remaining hands-on.

    Precize

    Led a four-engineer team from stakeholder requirements through deployment.

    • Built a sales module used by approximately 10 representatives.
    • Automated CDSL reconciliation with Python and AWS Lambda, reducing a 30–60 minute manual process to roughly five minutes after PDF upload.
    • Migrated production AWS infrastructure from Ohio to Mumbai with zero data loss.
  3. Full Stack Developer

    Solvative

    Jun 2022 – Dec 2023

    Ahmedabad · Remote

    Worked on an industrial IoT platform monitoring more than 300 milk tanks, with telemetry arriving approximately every 10 seconds.

    • Built with Sails.js, Socket.IO, InfluxDB, and Next.js.
    • Implemented authentication and access control using AWS Cognito.
  4. Junior Full Stack Developer

    iPixels Agency

    May 2021 – Apr 2022

    Mumbai · Remote

    Built operational systems with React, Next.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.

    • Worked on purchase orders, inventory, costing, and role-based access workflows.
    • Built QR-code workflows for tracking items through processing stages.
  5. Full Stack Developer

    Magitt Consultancy

    Dec 2019 – Mar 2021

    Mumbai · Hybrid

    Worked on the PAN-India ICICI Careers platform across applicant, recruiter, and admin experiences.

    • Built recruitment workflows for applications, verification, approvals, and interview scheduling.
    • Worked on Exotel-based phone and video interviewing flows.

Case studies coming later

Selected Work

Systems and engineering problems I enjoyed solving.

Toolbox

Skills

Technologies I have used to design, ship, and operate production software.

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Java

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Fastify
  • Express
  • Sails.js
  • GraphQL
  • Prisma
  • WebSockets

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • InfluxDB
  • pgvector
  • SQLite

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD

AWS services

  • ECS
  • ECR
  • RDS
  • Lambda
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Cognito
  • S3
  • CodePipeline
  • Amplify

AI & Agents

  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Mastra
  • LlamaIndex

Learning

Education & Certifications

Education

Master of Computer Applications

University of Mumbai

Thakur Institute of Management Studies, Career Development & Research (TIMSCDR)

Aug 2017 – Nov 2020

Blogs

Notes from building and relearning.

Writing soon.

Practical notes on production systems, backend architecture, AI agents, and engineering leadership will live here.

Beyond engineering

Travel stories

Places, photographs, and the short stories I brought home.