Manas Luthra
Full-Stack Engineer · Builder of Product-Shaped Things
Bengaluru, India ·
manas.luthra@apptile.io ·
+91-7015393351
manasluthra.com ·
gitlab / manas842 ·
LinkedIn
Profile
Full-stack engineer with 7 years shipping product across freelance, startup, and platform contexts. Currently at Apptile, where I built the Live Selling vertical single-handedly ($300K+ ARR in 4 months) and own the analytics + tile-workflow surfaces of the platform. Founder of Portwol (no-code portfolio builder) and VSign (sign-language authoring platform). Comfortable being the only engineer on a zero-to-one build, and equally comfortable inside a large codebase as a strong IC.
What I do best
- Zero → One product builds — You have an idea and a small budget. I do the whole thing — spec, design, build, ship, iterate. Comfortable being the only engineer for the first 6–9 months.
- Platform + tooling — Retool dashboards, internal admin panels, workflow automation, cron jobs, migration scripts. The unglamorous stuff that makes a team 3× faster.
- Live commerce & real-time apps — WebRTC, real-time carts, host tooling, viewer experiences. I built this vertical at Apptile — happy to build one for you too.
- Data pipelines & scraping — Scraping at scale, OCR, headless browser orchestration, automated deploys. If you need to move 18M records a month, I have receipts.
- Full-stack web apps — Node + React + a database of your choice, deployed on Vercel / AWS / wherever. The bread and butter, done well.
- Fixing what "almost works" — Inherited a codebase that's scary? I like those. Instrumentation, tests, refactor in place, ship a stable version, migrate incrementally.
Experience
- Built Live Selling vertical solo — $300K+ ARR in 4 months, and growing
- Shipped Apptile Analytics — first-party event pipeline across every live tile
- Auto-Fill for Apps — reduced onboarding churn measurably
- Owned the tile workflow end-to-end — created the tools designers use to ship tiles
- Built the tile variants feature on personal time, enabling rapid theme development
- Led migration of 80 apps to a new editor (with Ankit) — no customer-visible downtime
- Preprocessor style checker + pre-save app config — fewer crashes, cleaner configs
- Automated E2E platform tests running against prod every 2 hours
- Retool dashboards + Super Actions for internal ops
- Integration self-serve — exporter + dashboard for integration pages/tiles
- Tile Studio: advanced property selection + theme switching
- Revamped events editor, page breadcrumbs, control data validation
- Themes & Tiles launch — shipped a fresh library of themes and tiles alongside design
- Control standardisation across the platform — one consistent language
- Constant bug hunt — spotted and fixed dozens of platform issues before customers noticed
- Rewrote the data-extraction pipeline; grew processing capacity from 20K → 18M records.
- Automated server deployment and management; eliminated manual ops.
- SEO overhaul lifted organic reach across the surface site.
- Built the scraping engine + Discord bot for real-time drop alerts.
- Learned adversarial engineering — bot detection, rate-limits, evasion (the ethical parts).
- Delivered 20+ client sites in 2020 alone at a cadence of 1–2 per week.
- Built the full Ungaveedu platform (admin + user dashboards); relaunched by another company in 2024 on top of my foundation.
- Built a chat-based CRM for Eracost that lifted their conversion rates.
- Built the first version of VSign — a web platform for creating and teaching sign language.
- Contributed to Child Ensign, an online learning platform for Deaf children (SIH 2019 finalist).
Selected projects
A brand-new revenue vertical for Apptile — real-time video shopping for D2C brands. I designed and shipped the whole thing: broadcaster app, viewer experience, real-time cart & checkout, moderation, host tooling, and analytics. Onboarded the first cohort of merchants, then handed off to a team.
Built the analytics layer that shows merchants how their mobile app is really performing. Instrumented every live tile with first-party events, designed the ingestion pipeline, wired the dashboards, and shipped the merchant-facing UI. Now the default way our customers understand their apps.
Wanted anyone — designer, developer, freelancer — to stand up a great-looking portfolio without touching code. Built the editor, the template system, the auth, the export pipeline, and the marketing site. Free forever tier. Now serves creators worldwide.
Started at the CURIN Speech Lab as a research intern; grew it into a web platform for authoring Hamnosys code that drives ML-generated 3D character sign animations. Was internal-only; now open to everyone.
Rewrote the data-extraction stack: server deployment fully automated, scraping and OCR pipelines built for volume. Grew processing capacity ~900× while cutting per-record cost. SEO-optimized surface layer to match.
Built the data-scraping engine and a Discord bot that alerted resellers on drops, restocks, and price moves. High-throughput, low-latency, hard-to-detect. My crash course in adversarial engineering.
A first-year college side project. Parses basic C via regex and animates what each line does — useful for students staring at a for-loop for the first time. Chaotic. Still fond of it.
Shipped the entire product for an early-stage startup — customer-facing app, admin console, everything in between. The platform ran for years; relaunched by another company in 2024 on top of the foundation.
Skills
Achievements
- 1st — Huawei All-India National ICT Competition · Delhi · 2019
- 1st — Coffee & Code Hackathon · 2020
- 1st — Fetch.AI Open-Source Hackathon · 2021
- 2nd — Web-O-Mania · 2020
- Finalist — Smart India Hackathon 2019 · Chandigarh · 2019
- Huawei Certified ICT Associate · 2019 → 2021
Education
- Research intern at CURIN Speech & Multimodal Lab.
- Huawei Certified ICT Associate.
Get in touch
Email — manas.luthra@apptile.io · Phone — +91-7015393351 · manasluthra.com