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.
10 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 (80)
video-encoding10
nightwatch10
audio10
apply10
hls-stream10
integrate10
mp310
media-manager10
subtitle10
stripe10
recording9
youtube9
ppm9
pagination9
google-docs9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
manishkatyan/bbb-admin
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Scripts for BigBlueButton admins including extracting IP of users joining, participants attendance and poll answers
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
participants-attendancebigbluebuttonparticipantspolljoining
manishkatyan/bbb-mp4
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Easily integrate bbb-mp4 app into your BigBlueButton server to automatically convert class recordings into MP4 videos.
Contributions:1 review, 48 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
mp3videoshls-streamvideocaptions
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