Manoj Andhappilly

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ABOUT MANOJ ANDHAPPILLY

Startup technologist with 20 plus years of industry experience in a wide array of industries ranging from portal building software, health care security, social networking, ad serving, financial services to name a few. Career highlights: • Extensive startup background. First employee, Director of Engineering at Motif Investing Inc, a fin-tech (acquired by Charles Schwab). • Deep knowledge in security and compliance. Built cryptographically secure HIPAA compliant health-care services at Medem Inc.(acquired by Medfusion, which in turn was acquired by Intuit). • Solid experience with high scalability. Early engineer/architect at Piczo Inc.(teen social network, acquired by Stardoll AB), which at its peak had plus registrations a day. • Experience building high availability solutions. Built real-time monitoring for advertisement delivery at Brand.net (acquired by Valassis Communications). • Experience managing remote teams. Led a globally distributed team as Director of Engineering at oDesk Inc.(now Upwork Inc, IPO 2018). • Well-rounded engineer with a diverse skill set that includes multi-threaded concurrent programming, non-blocking I/O, security and cryptography primitives, and front-end Javascript frameworks. • Masters in Applied Economics (Econometrics), with a focus on regression analysis and forecasting methods. Coursera specializations in Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (Neural Networks) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). • Life-long knowledge seeker. Currently learning bitcoin/blockchain and Elliptical Curve Cryptography.(https://github.com/andhappilly/learning-bitcoin)