Manasa Venkatakrishnan
Staff Software Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolManasa Venkatakrishnan is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building scalable full‑stack systems and polished, mobile‑first user interfaces. She progressed from startup roles and graduate research to senior engineering positions at Zappos and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, blending strong foundations in algorithms, databases, and systems with hands‑on delivery. Known for optimizing performance and designing resilient backends, she pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to UX details that improve adoption. Her background spans web development, research-driven problem solving, and mentoring peers through growth-stage technical challenges. Unusually for someone in senior engineering operations, she maintains a developer’s focus on craftsmanship—handcrafting front ends while driving architecture decisions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer, Master's degree Computer at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil, Hindi
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Github Skills (16)
segmentation10
imaging10
microscopy10
denoising10
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
deprecated8
tiddlywiki7
happy6
collections6
terraform5
infrastructure5
kubernetes3
infrastructure-as-code2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
manasaV3/cryoet-data-portal-neuroglancer
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
CryoET Data Portal Neuroglancer configuration helper
Contributions:32 PRs, 30 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
chanzuckerberg/cryoet-data-portal-backend
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
CryoET Data Portal API server & ingestion scripts
Contributions:317 reviews, 248 PRs, 420 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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