Summary
Dhanesh Mana is a seasoned full-stack engineer and technology leader with 14 years of experience building reliable, scalable web systems across startups, academia, and enterprise. He has led front-end teams at EPFL and Tamedia, driven product-architect initiatives at Front Rush, and most recently moved into executive leadership as CTO and co-founder while holding a senior engineering role at Texas A&M. His technical breadth spans React/TypeScript front ends, Java/Spring back ends, Ruby on Rails migrations, and real-time messaging systems using MQTT and Cassandra, enabling him to bridge product strategy and hands-on delivery. Known for guiding cross-continental teams and shipping collaborative editor and CMS platforms for high-impact media and research projects, he blends manager-as-engineer instincts with deep implementation experience. Dhanesh’s background in scientific tooling for the Blue Brain Project and his early enterprise .NET work give him a rare combination of research-oriented rigor and production-hardened engineering. Based in College Station, Texas, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a pragmatic focus on dependable software and scalable architectures.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Software Engineering, Master of Science, Software Engineering at Drexel University
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Kerala
English, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit, French