Manas Luthra
Head of Engineering · Technical Leader · Product Innovator
Bengaluru, India ·
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Profile
Head of Engineering leading a tech startup, building next-generation mobile app development platforms. Founding engineer turned engineering leader with 7+ years across web, mobile, and system architecture — transforming ideas into reality across startups. Single-handedly built the Live Selling vertical generating $1M+ ARR. Scaled data systems from 20K to 18M records. Expert in technical strategy, team leadership, system architecture, and translating complex business requirements into scalable solutions.
Experience
- Leading the technical roadmap and rebranding of Tile.dev, transitioning the platform into a developer-first ecosystem.
- Directly managing 12 engineers, overseeing technical strategy and day-to-day execution.
- Building a next-generation platform designed to fundamentally change how mobile applications are built and deployed.
- Leading a dedicated R&D team of 4 engineers focused on high-level innovation and next-gen platform development.
- Partnering with enterprise clients to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Implementing high-standard technical governance and CI/CD practices to maintain 99.9% uptime during rebranding.
- Scaled the Live Selling vertical to $1M+ ARR through architectural improvements and performance optimisation.
- Integrated Generative AI into the product suite to automate manual content workflows.
- Primary technical point of contact for the entire organisation — resolving blockers across backend, infra, and frontend.
- Managed system stability and led the resolution of platform challenges during the major React Native v0.77 upgrade.
- Mentored engineers across the organisation and fostered a culture of high-velocity delivery.
- ★ Single-handedly built the Live Selling vertical from scratch — the core real-time shopping and streaming engine.
- Engineered the "Tiles" framework — modular UI system that reduced development cycles by 70% for 250+ brands.
- Architected a multi-tenant analytics pipeline processing millions of real-time events.
- Automated customer onboarding — reducing setup time from several days to under 10 minutes.
- Built a robust multi-tenant Shopify bulk data manager to handle high-concurrency store operations.
- Established the company's initial CI/CD pipelines and core infrastructure from the ground up.
- ★ Scaled from 20K to 18M records (900× growth) — auto-scaling system with 99.9% uptime.
- Built automated data-extraction pipeline using Tesseract, Camelot, and Tabula.
- Designed auto-spawn server system dynamically allocating resources based on workload.
- Optimised SEO — top rankings and 3× organic traffic growth.
- Founded Eduwol — an ed-tech studio; built and launched Portwol, a no-code portfolio builder with 400+ templates.
- Led a small team through design, engineering, and go-to-market.
- Ran the full product loop — hosting, auth, editor, template system, marketing site.
- Built a coding platform from scratch — hosted contests for 1,000+ participants.
- Developed a compiler API supporting 26+ languages with parallel test execution.
- Created an interactive code visualisation tool for algorithm learning.
- Built end-to-end trip-booking platform with seat selection and payment integration.
- Joined as freelancer; later offered CTO position for the parent company of Mouveen.
- Added features and admin customisation to main products (cinemapichimama.com, mouveen.com).
- Owned current and future project roadmap; maintained production sites.
- Worked with Blogger XML — removed bugs, ensured platform stability.
- Sneakomatic (Nov 2020 – Mar 2021): scrapers for Adidas, Nike, Myntra, Reebok. Auto-booking bot via Chrome Extension v3. Discord API integration for real-time notifications.
- Ungaveedu.com (Aug – Sep 2020): real-estate platform — property upload, advanced filters, database management, email services.
- Shine Corporate Services (Jul – Aug 2020): business website with service management and client portal.
- Era Cost (Aug – Oct 2019): custom chat-based CRM for user experience and sales enhancement.
- Built platform for Deaf children's education using Sign Language with 3D models.
- Researched and implemented Sign Language generation using Hamburg notation.
- Transformed an offline application into an online platform for accessibility.
- Created two learning platforms: isolated words and complete sentences.
Key projects
Real-time video commerce vertical. Scaled from zero to $1M+ ARR as the solo founding engineer. Every layer — streaming engine, cart, checkout, host tooling, moderation, analytics.
Modular UI system for mobile apps — 70% shorter development cycles, 250+ brands live on it.
My own product at Eduwol — no-code portfolio builder with 400+ templates. Built and shipped with a small team.
Online IDE with parallel test execution. Powered CodeOfFun contests for 1,000+ participants.
ML-powered sign-language authoring tool with 3D avatar models. Powers Child Ensign's teaching experience.
Technical skills
Achievements & Certifications
- Best Individual in India — Huawei All-India National ICT Competition · 2019–2020
- 2nd — Fetch.AI Open-Source Hackathon at NIT Goa · 2021
- Scaled a $1M+ ARR revenue vertical from zero — solo founding engineer · Apptile · Live Selling
- Scaled data pipeline 900× (20K → 18M records) · Crime Check 2021
- 2nd — Web O Mania (ACM Chitkara) · 2020
- Finalist — Smart India Hackathon 2019 · Chandigarh · 2019
- Huawei Certified ICT Associate (HCIA) — Routing & Switching · 2019–21
- Google Certifications — Python + Technical Support · 2020
- Front-End Web Frameworks — HKUST · 2020
Education
- Research intern at CURIN Speech & Multimodal Lab.
- Huawei Certified ICT Associate (HCIA) — Routing & Switching.
Get in touch
Email — manasluthra843@gmail.com
DM me — LinkedIn
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