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Senior Platform @ Mercari | Platform / Web / Cloud / SWE / SRE

About

As a Software Engineer at Mercari, Inc., I leverage my expertise in cloud agnostic infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Kustomize to build scalable and efficient web platforms. I have also developed multiple systems for an efficient developer workflow, from coding to deployments and monitoring. Additionally, I have acted as an architect and tech lead of a team of 7 people, ensuring good quality code and product development. Prior to joining Mercari, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Innovapptive Inc, where I built a new cloud agnostic infrastructure for the company's primary product. I also developed internal tools that saved the company over $100k in third party costs. I am passionate about learning new technologies and improving processes to enhance developer experience. I hold a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

ollama

openai

opencode

Work experience

Senior Platform Engineer at Mercari, Inc., Aug 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Platform Engineer at Mercari, Inc., Feb 2026 - Aug 2026 · 7 mos, Tokyo, Japan

Platform Engineer at Mercari, Inc., Oct 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos, Tokyo, Japan

Senior Software Engineer at Innovapptive Inc, May 2024 - Aug 2024 · 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, - Worked on building a completely new cloud agnostic infrastructure for the company's primary product using Kubernetes and Kustomize - Developed multiple systems in place for an efficient developer workflow from coding to deployments and monitoring - Acted as an architect and a tech lead of team of 7 people ensuring good quality code and product development - Developed multiple internal tools for the company like Internal Wiki, API Documentation and infrastructure tooling, saving $100k+ in third party costs

Platform Engineering Intern at Mercari, Inc., Feb 2024 - Apr 2024 · 3 mos, Tokyo, Japan, - Worked with a diverse team with people from 18+ countries from company's main office at Tokyo, Japan - Implemented Signin in Passkey button on Cross Platform authentication screen for the platform, currently serving 1 million plus MAUs. - Enabled and optimised various features and improvements in internal CI/CD and platform tooling for the betterment of Developer Experience(DX) within the company - Created as well as fixed a few production affecting incidents as well - Developed a Proof of Concept for internal developer portal for the company from scratch with aim to serve 2000+ developers within the company - Deployed an internal standalone system using Kubernetes, Terraform and Spinnaker

Founding Engineer at Blaze AI (YC W22), Mar 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Deployed and Managed 4+ Staging and Production Clusters using AWS ECS - Setup 10+ deployment lifecycle and CI/CD pipelines for various micro-services and applications on AWS Lambda, AWS EC2 and AWS ECS using Github Actions and Bash Scripts - Setup data processing pipelines using Apache Airflow - Worked on reducing the latency of queries by more than 90% by migrating the system to Snowflake

Technical Consultant at Maalexi, Aug 2021 - May 2022 · 10 mos, Delaware, United States

Full Stack Web Developer at Maalexi, Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Lisbon, Portugal, - Led the development and infrastructure of the current marketplace website - Integrated various payment platforms (Stripe, Escrow.com, TazaPay) in the website facilitating online transactions •Co-managed the cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS ECS, CloudWatch, EC2, Docker and Vercel - Setup multiple CI/CD pipelines using Bash and Gitlab CI

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management

Senior Secondary, PCM, St. Karen's High School

Public links

github: https://github.com/manishprivet

medium: https://medium.com/@manishprivet

manishk.dev: https://manishk.dev/