Summary
Manikanta Dornala is a data science and engineering professional with 10 years of experience building production-scale analytics and reliability systems for major tech platforms. Currently helping keep Apple Intelligence reliable, he previously cut OS performance issue triage from weeks to days at Microsoft by combining telemetry, trace analysis, and pragmatic statistical models. Trained at Georgia Tech (MS CS) and IIT Kanpur (BS CS), he blends strong programming fundamentals with applied ML/NLP research on mental-health sensing and multimodal data. Comfortable across cloud-native APIs, large-scale telemetry pipelines, and fault-resilient systems, he has a track record of turning messy operational data into actionable insights that reduce time-to-resolution and improve platform health. An early student leader who helped build India’s first student-run observatory, he brings curiosity and operational rigor to both engineering and cross-functional stakeholder problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
English, Hindi, Telugu