Nicolas di Tada

About Nicolas di Tada

Since 1995, Nico has worked in technological innovation, with organizations ranging from startups to large multinationals and UN Agencies, helping them understand their challenges and opportunities and designing systems through a participatory and agile process. He has extensive experience applying human-centered design and systems thinking to complex problems in all sorts of domains including scientific applications, humanitarian and development scenarios. After working for several startups and Fortune 500 companies, he founded Manas.Tech who specializes in building unconventional software for unconventional needs with a focus on technical and scientific software solutions. Manas.Tech has delivered over 150 projects to companies that truly make a difference in the world. Nico also currently serves as the Director of Engineering at InSTEDD where he works with humanitarian and development organizations around the world to apply systems design and technology to tackle social issues around public health, safety and agriculture. Having implemented projects in the harshest conditions–including deploying to Haiti 36 hours after the 2010 earthquake–he understands how to design software for resource-constrained scenarios. Nico buys books faster than what he can read them, plays the piano like a perpetual amateur and when not working, can be found getting lost in the most remote wilderness he can find.

Experience

1. Founder

   Manas.Tech

   Jun 2003 — Present · Buenos Aires, AR

   Manas is an IT company committed to the development of innovative and creative high-end business systems. We specialize in technical and scientific software solutions, and our experience includes a wide range of fields, with a special emphasis on data mining, information retrieval and visualization, GIS and signals/images processing.

Education

• Philips Technology Institute

  Mechatronics Technician, Electronics and Mechanics

  1994 — 1999