Manas Kelshikar
Senior Engineering Manager at Eightfold
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolManas Kelshikar is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver large distributed systems and AI-driven products, currently based in Cupertino and leading engineering at Eightfold. He has deep systems and backend expertise from senior roles at Uber and VMware and was an early engineer at StackStorm, contributing significant backend features and action-alias APIs to a widely used open-source automation platform. Manas combines hands-on coding—integrating third-party APIs like Twitter into StackStorm and improving client libraries—with people leadership across payments, order platforms, and scalable infrastructure. He brings a practitioner’s eye to documentation and operational detail, having authored installation and security-focused docs for production systems. Known for moving quickly from prototype to production, he pairs pragmatic engineering with experience in distributed system design and operational automation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Engineering, Masters, Computer Engineering at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics at Mumbai University
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Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 559 commits, 649 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Manas implemented and extended action alias models and persistence within the StackStorm framework. They added support for new features such as action alias execution, a new experimental root controller, and its corresponding controller and tests. Their contributions also included defining the API model for managing action aliases and updates to tools for content registration.
chatopsauto-remediationpythonexchangeevent-driven
StackStorm/st2contrib
May 2015 - May 2016
MOVED! See StackStorm Exchange
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 71 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Manas primarily contributed to backend functionality, focusing on integrating the Twitter API within the `st2contrib` repository. They implemented actions for direct messaging and following Twitter users, modified existing code to use the correct parameters. Furthermore, the user refactored code to use environment variables for configuration and incorporated API calls into the StackStorm environment. The user made changes to the internal workings of the StackStorm client library.
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