Backend AI · Distributed Systems · Platform Engineering
I build systems that stay useful under pressure.
I’m Manan Jain, an engineer focused on reliable AI infrastructure, distributed backends, and developer platforms—turning complex operational problems into systems teams can trust.

Waterloo, Canada · Available globally
Experience
Systems shipped. Outcomes measured.
Guidepoint
AI Engineering Intern
Incoming AI Engineering internship focused on applied AI and production systems.
- Selected to join Guidepoint’s engineering organization as an incoming AI Engineering Intern.
- Role scope and shipped impact will be added when the internship begins.
Ford
Software Engineering Intern
Platform engineering across cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and developer experience for an ecosystem of 250+ microservices.
- Architected a Backstage developer platform integrating AWS EKS and ArgoCD, reclaiming 30% of engineering bandwidth.
- Built a Go migration engine that translated Tekton pipelines into GitHub Actions and standardized service onboarding.
- Designed gated hotfix delivery and policy-as-code guardrails with OPA and Cedar, cutting production deployment time by 60%.
RedIron
Software Engineering Intern
Backend performance, asynchronous data pipelines, and serverless browser infrastructure for high-volume product workflows.
- Redesigned TypeORM indexing and access patterns to reduce query latency by 90%.
- Built a scalable TypeScript export pipeline with async streaming, schema inference, and multi-format serialization.
- Deployed headless Chromium as an AWS Lambda Layer for reliable, serverless UI automation.
Toronto Transit Commission
Full Stack Developer Intern
Modernized operational systems and delivery workflows for one of North America’s largest public transit agencies.
- Migrated applications to Angular and .NET, reducing data-load latency by 60%.
- Designed reusable React reporting primitives that cut feature development effort by 80%.
- Built secure REST APIs and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
Apsidata Solutions
Software Engineering Intern
Backend engineering for a recruitment platform processing more than 1,500 candidate submissions each week.
- Shipped Flask and PostgreSQL services for high-throughput candidate processing.
- Improved database performance by 55% through query design, indexing, and triggers.
- Designed APIs and SMTP-based automations for critical business workflows.
Education
A rigorous foundation for complex systems.
Computational mathematics trained me to move fluently between theory, algorithms, data, and the systems that put them to work.
University of Waterloo
Honours Bachelor of Mathematics
Computational Mathematics · Co-op
Selected coursework
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Data-Intensive Computing
- Computer Systems
- Databases & Network Flow Theory
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Sequential & Deterministic Optimization
Engineering Focus
Built from first principles. Operated in the real world.
I work where backend engineering, AI systems, and infrastructure meet—optimizing for reliability, debuggability, and leverage.
Backend & distributed systems
High-throughput APIs, asynchronous pipelines, data-intensive services, caching, and failure-aware system design.
Go · Python · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Redis · DockerApplied AI engineering
Production-minded RAG, agent workflows, evaluation loops, retrieval quality, and model-backed product systems.
LangChain · LangGraph · OpenAI · FAISS · MCPPlatform & reliability
Developer platforms, policy-as-code, observability, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure built to reduce operational load.
AWS · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions · OPASelected Work
Complex systems, made legible.
A focused selection of systems where architecture, retrieval quality, and operational clarity matter.
retrieval
answer
Flagship project · Applied AI
Production-minded RAG assistant
A retrieval-augmented assistant over 100+ documents, designed as a multi-step system rather than a thin model wrapper. It combines semantic retrieval, query rewriting, tool access, and grounded response generation.
- 01 LangGraph orchestration for observable, multi-stage execution
- 02 FAISS semantic retrieval with contextual document grounding
- 03 MCP tool access for extensible agent capabilities
Platform engineering
Developer platform & delivery infrastructure
Backstage service catalog, GitHub Actions migration, Kubernetes delivery, and policy guardrails across 250+ microservices.
Secure backend product
Dossier document management
A role-aware document platform for educational organizations with structured file workflows and a SQL-backed authorization model.
Writing
Systems thinking, documented.
Design notes on retrieval, reliability, platform engineering, and the tradeoffs behind production systems.
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