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Manuj Paliwal

Engineer turned engineering leader

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12 years shipping systems where reliability matters — fintech platforms that move real money, AI systems that talk to real customers. Built a team from 3 to 10, led through an acquisition, co-founded a startup as CTO. Currently making LLMs behave in production.

$ls ~/projects --featured

Work I'm Proud Of

Web App Base

2025

Production-ready full-stack template combining FastAPI backend, Next.js 15 frontend, and Supabase infrastructure. Includes automated app spawning system with upgrade paths, comprehensive auth flow, and multi-environment Docker configs.

Next.jsFastAPISupabaseDockerTypeScript

NakshatraHub

2025

Production API platform for astronomical calculations serving the Vedic astrology space. Swiss Ephemeris integration, AI agents to train astrologers, pay-per-request pricing with free tier. End-to-end product: API design, billing, and developer docs.

PythonFastAPISwiss EphemerisAPI DesignStripe

CheXpert

2019

Machine learning models for chest X-ray image classification using the CheXpert dataset. Detects thoracic conditions including atelectasis, cardiomegaly, consolidation, edema, and pleural effusion using ResNet-18 and ensemble methods.

PythonPyTorchDeep LearningApache Spark

Like what you see? Let's discuss how I can help with your next project.

$cat ~/about/README.md
Manuj Paliwal

About Me

I'm a software engineer who ended up leading teams. Spent 9 years in fintech building lending platforms — grew the team from 3 to 10, went through an acquisition, shipped systems that banks actually use. Then co-founded Mensari (Alliance DAO) as CTO. Now I'm working on making LLMs behave in production.

I have an MS in AI from Georgia Tech, which mostly means I can read papers without my eyes glazing over.

I like hard problems that matter. I've learned that great software comes from great teams, and that most technical problems are actually people problems in disguise.

Outside work: golf (poorly), running (slowly), cooking (experimentally).

$ls skills/

ai_ml/

LLM OrchestrationRAG SystemsAgentic AIAI SecurityBERT/Transformers

stack/

PythonTypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.js

cloud/

AWSKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLMongoDB
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Always happy to connect — whether it's about AI/ML, fintech, or interesting projects.

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