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.

Manan Jain
Open to backend AI & systems roles
systems / 01

Waterloo, Canada · Available globally

250+microservices catalogued
90%query latency reduced
60%faster production delivery

Experience

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Guidepoint

AI Engineering Intern

Upcoming

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.
AI EngineeringBackend SystemsProduction AI
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Ford

Software Engineering Intern

Jan 2026 — Apr 2026
Waterloo, ON

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%.
GoAWS EKSArgoCDBackstageOPACedar
03

RedIron

Software Engineering Intern

May 2025 — Aug 2025
Waterloo, ON

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.
TypeScriptPostgreSQLAWS LambdaPuppeteerReact
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Toronto Transit Commission

Full Stack Developer Intern

Sep 2024 — Dec 2024
Toronto, ON

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.
.NETAngularReactSQLAzure DevOps
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Apsidata Solutions

Software Engineering Intern

May 2023 — Aug 2023
Delhi, India

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.
PythonFlaskPostgreSQLREST APIsSMTP

Education

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

GPA 3.7 / 4.0SeniorSep 2022 — Apr 2027

Selected coursework

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Data-Intensive Computing
  • Computer Systems
  • Databases & Network Flow Theory
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Sequential & Deterministic Optimization

Engineering Focus

I work where backend engineering, AI systems, and infrastructure meet—optimizing for reliability, debuggability, and leverage.

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Backend & distributed systems

High-throughput APIs, asynchronous pipelines, data-intensive services, caching, and failure-aware system design.

Go · Python · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker
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Applied AI engineering

Production-minded RAG, agent workflows, evaluation loops, retrieval quality, and model-backed product systems.

LangChain · LangGraph · OpenAI · FAISS · MCP
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Platform & reliability

Developer platforms, policy-as-code, observability, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure built to reduce operational load.

AWS · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions · OPA

Selected Work

A focused selection of systems where architecture, retrieval quality, and operational clarity matter.

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Platform engineering

Developer platform & delivery infrastructure

Backstage service catalog, GitHub Actions migration, Kubernetes delivery, and policy guardrails across 250+ microservices.

GoAWS EKSArgoCDOPA
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Secure backend product

Dossier document management

A role-aware document platform for educational organizations with structured file workflows and a SQL-backed authorization model.

C#.NETSQLRBAC

Writing

Design notes on retrieval, reliability, platform engineering, and the tradeoffs behind production systems.

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