Manoj Dayaram
Software Janitor at Persona
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManoj Dayaram is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building and sustaining production systems from startups to major platforms, currently serving as a "Software Janitor" at Persona where he keeps codebases tidy and Rails apps polished. A Carnegie Mellon CS graduate based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and operational stewardship learned across roles at Square, Moovweb, and Salesforce. He has a playful record of building community and tooling—documenting long-running processes, hosting durable meetings, and ritualizing internal culture—while still shipping reliable software. His background ranges from mobile J2ME game frameworks and teaching C/Java to modern web stacks, reflecting both deep technical roots and adaptability. Known for learning "one failure at a time," he brings a resilient, iterative approach to problem solving and code health. Unexpectedly, his career includes organizing quirky real-world projects—from office games to chocolate curation—that reveal a knack for human-centered engineering and team morale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Arizona State UniversityHigh School, High School at East Brunswick High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (104)
error-handler10
statusline10
to-do10
stacktrace10
vimium10
scheduled-tasks10
sdk10
coinmarketcap10
tmux10
celery10
neovim10
javascript9
solr9
client-library9
evernote9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mdayaram/pingpong
Jun 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 7 years
mdayaram/merkle_tree
Feb 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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