Manish Katyan
Director - Engineering at Rakuten
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolManish Katyan is a director-level engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building AI-driven, enterprise-scale software and founding multiple startups that achieved successful exits. He blends deep technical chops in full-stack development, ML/LLM fine-tuning, and cloud infrastructure with an MBA from IIM Calcutta to turn strategic product vision into measurable business outcomes—examples include an LLM-based personalization delivering 117% ROI and ML matching systems that contributed $110M+ in revenue. He has a strong track record scaling and leading distributed teams across India, Europe, and the US, and has repeatedly taken products from prototype to high-availability production (60K+ concurrent users, multi-agent AI pipelines). Beyond leadership, he remains hands-on—founding AdmissionTable.com (acquired) and building React+Node apps and AI pipelines—while actively upskilling in LangChain and LLM fine-tuning. Based in Bengaluru, he is comfortable operating at the intersection of product, data science, and engineering to drive growth and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurPGPEX MBA, PGPEX MBA at Indian Institute of Management, CalcuttaFinetuning Large Language Models, Finetuning Large Language Models at DeepLearning.ai
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Github Skills (44)
stripe10
pagination10
youtube9
bigbluebutton9
mp49
twilio9
audio9
strapi8
cms8
webrtc8
kurento7
google-cloud7
collaboration7
conferencing7
mediasoup7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manishkatyan/bbb-optimize
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Better audio quality, increase recording processing speed, dynamic video profile, pagination, fix 1007/1020 errors and use apply-config.sh to manage your customizations are some key techniques for you to optimize and smoothly run your BigBlueButton servers.
Contributions:105 commits, 102 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
audiobigbluebuttonpagination
manishkatyan/bbb-scalelite
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
An easy-to-follow step-by-step process to install Scalelite load balancer for BigBlueButton
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 month
bigbluebuttonload-balancerscalelite
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