Mayank Mandava
VP Of Engineering at Valdera
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMayank Mandava is a VP of Engineering based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, concurrency-focused infrastructure, and developer tooling. He has led engineering teams at high-growth fintech and payments companies—most recently co-founding and serving as CTO of Formalize to build next-generation financial risk tooling, and holding senior engineering leadership roles at Afterpay, Square, and Uber. With an academic foundation in computer science from the University of Chicago and engineering degrees from IIT Kanpur, he blends rigorous research-minded thinking (including DSL and functional programming work) with practical, product-focused execution. Mayank’s interests in programming language design and purely functional data structures inform his approach to architecting reliable, maintainable systems at scale. He has a background in structured finance from Deutsche Bank, which gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on risk, product, and engineering. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who moves fluidly between low-level technical tradeoffs and company-level strategy.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Chicago
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (74)
aws10
tagged-template10
credentials9
terraform9
apollo9
terraform-provider9
babel-plugin9
react9
typescript9
cli8
aws-credentials8
keychain8
browser8
aws-vault8
graphql8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xmonkee/Ballr
Aug 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:56 commits in 1 year 6 months
xmonkee/dwm
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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