Manu Zope is an engineering manager based in Seattle with a decade of experience building and leading backend and integrations teams across startups and scale-ups. He has hands-on product and technical leadership experience from founding a YC company to managing Sentry’s integrations and enterprise features and driving key backend services at PagerDuty that landed major deals. Known for shipping reliable API-driven systems and developer-facing integrations, he blends product-focused engineering with operational discipline. Manu moves comfortably between individual contributor work and managing teams of 4–6 engineers, often stepping into interim leadership to unblock projects. His background in Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo underpins a pragmatic approach to systems design and scalable architecture. He brings an operator-founder mindset—comfortable writing production code, shaping roadmap tradeoffs, and translating customer needs into robust engineering outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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