Manuel Kanah
VP Of Engineering at Black Box Intelligence™
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolManuel Kanah is a pragmatic engineering executive with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, now serving as VP of Engineering in London. He combines a founder’s mindset from a decade running a popular consumer site (TombolaGratis) with deep technical chops in migrations, AWS, containerization, data lakes/warehouses and cost-optimised architectures. Manuel has led large infrastructure modernisations—moving monoliths to microservices, EC2 to Docker, and NoSQL to Aurora—while driving automation and high-throughput analytics for products operating at millions of requests per minute. Known for empathetic leadership, he focuses on talent development, operational reliability and aligning engineering work tightly to business outcomes. An architect-turned-leader with an architecture background from Politecnico di Milano, he brings an unusual blend of design thinking and production-grade execution.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture, Architecture at Politecnico di MilanoEnglish as second language, English as second language at University of TorontoDiploma Artistico, Diploma Artistico at Liceo Artistico Caravaggio
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Github Skills (38)
baking10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
recipe10
dts10
specification9
openrtb9
iab9
eslint8
earth8
javascript8
nodejs8
bull7
linter7
swagger7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
powerlinks/php-open-rtb
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
iab, RTB Project, OpenRTB Specification
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 1 year 3 months
specificationiabopenrtbrtb
testinaweb/dynamic-crypto
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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