# Manish Phatak > Staff Software Engineer at Collective Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/manishphatak ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Collective Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Box Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, CA Box Skills ### Sr. Front End Engineer @ Box Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Redwood City, California ### Sr. Front End Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, California Have worked on key features of Mail like compose, attachments, search, save, send etc. Overall my contribution can be summarized as: - Build new features to increase user traffic and engagement - Enhancement for better user experience and stability - Performance Improvement Initiatives Technologies experienced in: - Javascript libraries like React, YUI, lodash - Application Architecture : Flux in combination with React - TDD with mocha test and Node.js - HTML5, CSS3 - PHP ### Software Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, California - Developing tools/portals for Yahoo's primary internal portal called "Yahoo! Backyard" using technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL. - Experience with JavaScript development that includes modular, object-oriented JavaScript applications. Libraries often used: YUI - Lead & coordinated important projects like Refresh, Superstar, Reimbursement, Badges etc. - Developing backend APIs for other teams/Yahoos. - Experience with engineering the full product lifecycle, from requirement gathering, design, coding, testing, through maintenance. - Developing hacks to improve existing processes. ### Solutions Engineer @ Baynote Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Cupertino, San Jose Solutions Engineer: Baynote.com, San Jose, CA - March 2010 – August 2010 Role & Responsibilities: • Design and implement robust, high-quality solutions for customers using the latest web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML etc. • To ensure projects are scoped accurately and released on-time • Identify and implement systems and tools to help improve processes and efficiency. ### Summer Intern & Student Programmer @ Cancer Research Informatics Core Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 • Business Intelligence developing SQL reports, Database Applications and Web Applications using .NET Framework and SQL Server 2008. • Designing and implementing Database Applications, creating Schemas, Tables, Views, and Indexes. • Designing and deploying SQL Reports, Reports, writing complex SQL queries. ### Software Engineer @ Hexaware Technologies Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Project: ACS Vector (ORACLE 10g, ORACLE 9i, Siebel 7.8.2, Windows XP) Automated toll management system involving identification of vehicle types, processing of payments, capturing violations, managing toll lanes, customer support centers etc. Role & Responsibility: • Analysis of the client requirement • Using Oracle Stored Procedures to Load Data into EIM (Enterprise Integration Manager) Tables. • Developing the EIM mappings, IFB (Interface Configuration Files) files & Batch files to schedule the EIM runs. • Developing the pre data validation scripts & post data validation SQL scripts and automation of the same. ## Education ### MS in Computer Science University of Southern California ### BE in Computer Engineering University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manishphatak - Portfolio: http://www.yahoo.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/manishphatak JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/manishphatak/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12