Manish Kumar is an entrepreneurial software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling products from idea to launch in the San Francisco Bay Area. As co-founder of Fallible since 2015 and now InstaVM, he blends hands-on engineering with product-led growth, favoring deep technical problem solving—what he jokingly calls "digging trenches." His background includes senior engineering work at Yahoo, where he focused on resilient, production-grade systems, and a practical academic foundation from Birla Institute of Technology. Known for staying close to the code while steering startups, he brings a mix of operational pragmatism and founder-level ownership to early-stage ventures.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Well Digging, Well Digging at Delhi Public School, Bokaro
Trench Digging, Trench Digging at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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