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Manas Shukla

Building something cool everyday | Ex - Founding Engineer @ Ionic Wealth (by Angel One) & Core Team @ Scenes

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

Project Drone - WealthTech
Sep 20251 y 1 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Owned the KYC onboarding system end-to-end as the technical lead across frontend and backend integration, driving architecture and UX decisions for a business-critical, compliance-sensitive user entry point serving high-volume, transaction-heavy workflows. - Conducted in-depth competitive analysis of KYC journeys across leading brokerage platforms (Zerodha, Angel One, Upstox, Groww, Dhan) and translated insights into a redesigned onboarding experience focused on reducing friction, minimizing drop-offs, and improving conversion. - Defined and rolled out organization-wide frontend architecture standards, including a reusable design system and starter templates, improving development velocity, ensuring cross-product consistency, and enabling scalable future growth.
Angel One Wealth
Jan 20241 yr 9 mosSep 2025

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

- Joined as the first engineering hire to build a fintech wealth management platform from zero to production, contributing across product discovery, frontend architecture, backend API development, and production rollout. - Owned frontend system architecture, working closely with backend services and APIs to define application structure, engineering standards, and security practices (XSS, CSRF, secure token handling). - Built and scaled complex, high-traffic workflows including CRM, Mutual Fund, PMS, AIF, and SIF transactions, onboarding (KYC), and discovery modules using React, Next.js, and backend APIs in Python (FastAPI, Flask) and JavaScript (Koa). - Led the migration from a monolithic frontend to a micro-frontend architecture, enabling parallel development and faster, safer releases. - Built and shipped a React Native mobile app on the same backend platform, ensuring cross-platform consistency and performance. - Established engineering standards, tooling, and review processes; mentored junior engineers and improved overall code quality and delivery velocity.
Unacademy
Jan 20222 yrs 1 moJan 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Contributed to building and scaling Unacademy VIP, a premium subscription-based learning platform, working across frontend, backend APIs, and system integrations. - Designed and implemented a self-serve subscription management system for upgrades, renewals, and cancellations, significantly reducing operational overhead and reliance on manual support. - Built and maintained RESTful APIs using Django and a responsive frontend using Next.js, delivering a consistent, cross-device learning experience. - Integrated live class infrastructure and optimized real-time learning workflows, improving session reliability and learner engagement at scale. - Led deep React performance audits, identifying and resolving rendering and data-fetching bottlenecks to improve page load times by ~70% and enhance responsiveness on low-end devices. - Engineered a cloud-based storage and video transcoding pipeline, optimizing video delivery and improving playback consistency across varying network conditions.
GitHub
@IamLucidDreamer
Personal portfoliowebsite.ofmanas.com

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Education

University of lucknow

Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science

University of lucknow

20203 yrs2023

High School

St Lawrence School

200613 yrs2019

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Headline

Building something cool everyday | Ex - Founding Engineer @ Ionic Wealth (by Angel One) & Core Team @ Scenes

About

Product-focused Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade fintech and consumer platforms. Strong expertise across frontend architecture, performance optimization, and system design in modern React, Next.js, and React Native ecosystems, with hands-on experience integrating and designing backend APIs using Python (FastAPI, Flask) and Node.js. I’ve worked as an early engineering hire and founding team member, owning business-critical workflows such as KYC onboarding, wealth transactions, CRM systems, and subscription platforms, taking products from 0 → 1 and through scale. Known for defining engineering standards, leading architectural migrations (monolith to micro-frontends), mentoring engineers, and delivering reliable, high-performance user experiences in high-ownership environments.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude

codex

cursor

deepseek

kimi

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer - Founding Team at Project Drone - WealthTech, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 y 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Owned the KYC onboarding system end-to-end as the technical lead across frontend and backend integration, driving architecture and UX decisions for a business-critical, compliance-sensitive user entry point serving high-volume, transaction-heavy workflows. - Conducted in-depth competitive analysis of KYC journeys across leading brokerage platforms (Zerodha, Angel One, Upstox, Groww, Dhan) and translated insights into a redesigned onboarding experience focused on reducing friction, minimizing drop-offs, and improving conversion. - Defined and rolled out organization-wide frontend architecture standards, including a reusable design system and starter templates, improving development velocity, ensuring cross-product consistency, and enabling scalable future growth.

Founding Software Engineer at Angel One Wealth, Jan 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, - Joined as the first engineering hire to build a fintech wealth management platform from zero to production, contributing across product discovery, frontend architecture, backend API development, and production rollout. - Owned frontend system architecture, working closely with backend services and APIs to define application structure, engineering standards, and security practices (XSS, CSRF, secure token handling). - Built and scaled complex, high-traffic workflows including CRM, Mutual Fund, PMS, AIF, and SIF transactions, onboarding (KYC), and discovery modules using React, Next.js, and backend APIs in Python (FastAPI, Flask) and JavaScript (Koa). - Led the migration from a monolithic frontend to a micro-frontend architecture, enabling parallel development and faster, safer releases. - Built and shipped a React Native mobile app on the same backend platform, ensuring cross-platform consistency and performance. - Established engineering standards, tooling, and review processes; mentored junior engineers and improved overall code quality and delivery velocity.

Software Engineer at Unacademy, Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Contributed to building and scaling Unacademy VIP, a premium subscription-based learning platform, working across frontend, backend APIs, and system integrations. - Designed and implemented a self-serve subscription management system for upgrades, renewals, and cancellations, significantly reducing operational overhead and reliance on manual support. - Built and maintained RESTful APIs using Django and a responsive frontend using Next.js, delivering a consistent, cross-device learning experience. - Integrated live class infrastructure and optimized real-time learning workflows, improving session reliability and learner engagement at scale. - Led deep React performance audits, identifying and resolving rendering and data-fetching bottlenecks to improve page load times by ~70% and enhance responsiveness on low-end devices. - Engineered a cloud-based storage and video transcoding pipeline, optimizing video delivery and improving playback consistency across varying network conditions.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science, University of lucknow

High School, St Lawrence School

Public links

github: https://github.com/IamLucidDreamer

website.ofmanas.com: https://website.ofmanas.com/