Manoj Pahuja
Senior Director Of Engineering at Handshake
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManoj Pahuja is a seasoned engineering leader based in San Francisco with two decades of hands-on experience building and scaling B2B and B2C platforms. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at Handshake after leadership roles at Shippo, Nextdoor, Lyft and GoDaddy, he excels at improving engineering velocity through test automation, developer experience, and hiring/leveling strategies. He’s known for driving measurable impact—reducing UI test times from hours to minutes, consolidating cross-platform test reporting, and enabling thousands of deployments annually. An active mentor on Plato and a private investor with a diversified portfolio, he blends operational rigor with product-minded strategy. Manoj holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and brings a track record of turning testing and reliability investments into faster, safer delivery cycles.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaB.E. Electronics and Communication, B.E. Electronics and Communication at Maharshi Dayanand University
English
Github Skills (63)
testing-library10
mochawesome10
testing9
angular-testing-library9
selenium-webdriver9
cypress9
svelte-testing-library9
component-testing9
react-testing-library9
vue-testing-library9
usps8
elasticsearch8
elk8
dhl8
fedex8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mpahuja/cypress-js-lib
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Cypress Common JS Code
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
commonjscypress
mpahuja/mocha-elk-reporter
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Mocha reporter that sends data to ELK (Elastic Search, Log Stash, Kibana)
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years
elasticsearchelkkibanamocha-reporterelk-reporter
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