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 (81)
error-handler10
terraform10
vim10
automation10
stacktrace10
sdk10
golang10
atlantis10
celerybeat10
go10
tmux10
sre10
redis10
celery10
devops10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mdayaram/onetweet
Jan 2015 - Jun 2026
What would you say if you only had one tweet?
Contributions:22 PRs, 63 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years 7 months
twitter-botsaytwitter-apitwitter
mdayaram/pingpong
Jun 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 7 years
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