I write
code.
I'm Manoj — a software engineer who ships clean, considered products.
I love writing software that feels like magic I split my time between writing software and writing songs. As an engineer I care about clean systems and thoughtful interfaces; as Vrad.NI sing, and I'm learning to produce — chasing the same feeling in both, the moment something finally clicks.
Five cities, one long way round.
Chennai → Tokyo → Singapore → India → Sydney. Select a city to see photos.
VIEW →My thesis — a full-stack internship recommender with NLP résumé parsing and a hybrid recommender wrapped in an LLM context layer, lifting match accuracy by 65%. React front end on a FastAPI microservice backend.
VIEW →Full-stack engineer on a data + AI platform. Shipped a credit-based pricing model that drove a 25% rise in active subscriptions, and built LLM orchestration services deployed on Kubernetes.
VIEW →Data Science Society, UNSW. Led a team of 4 as Scrum Master (incl. Excellr), migrated the DataSoc site Vercel→Cloudflare and Next.js→Astro, and built a JS automation pipeline that cut manual work by 60%.
VIEW →Artificial Intelligence Society, UNSW. Managed a team of 5 and directed marketing for the first-ever AICon — selling out 200+ tickets — while growing social presence 30% with viral video content.
People's Choice — HealthHack 2026
Crowd Favourite (Pitching Track) at HealthHack 2026, Stone & Chalk — for Historia, an app that streamlines pharmacy queues and gets you to pharmacist care before you reach the counter. Built in two days with Dina Vahabi; my first hackathon, and first win. Hosted by MLAI, sponsored by OpenAI × Base44.
Optiver Award — Best SENG3011 Project
For Foresight, a currency exchange-rate warning system — judged the best Software Engineering (SENG3011) project of the cohort and presented at Optiver's office. Built with Aryaman Sakthivel, Rahul Markasserithodi and Ayusha Priyadarshani.
CSESoc × Atlassian Hackathon
Runner-up for Tenure — a platform that rates the durability of electronics from real user reviews, validated with a statistical method used in clinical trials. Built with Rahul Markasserithodi.