# Rishabh Manocha

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rishabhmanocha

Proven engineering manager with a passion for building scalable backend applications using tools such as Java, Python, DynamoDB, Kafka, PostgreSQL (RDS) etc.

Experienced in hiring and managing teams of sizes of 5-15 people from different cultures and backgrounds.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Rula
Jan 2025 – Present

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Karma Horizons
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer @ WhatsApp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Remote

### Engineering Manager @ Facebook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Engineering Manager @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Director of Platform Engineering @ Upwork
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
Leading engineering efforts across multiple teams to build our new distributed microservices architecture as well as the frontend changes to go with them.

Manage engineering leads of multiple vertical teams in their product development efforts.

Scale multiple java based services using tools such as DynamoDB, Kafka, CloudSearch and more.

Participate in product strategy requirements, in collaboration with the product management and design teams and managing their execution.

### Senior Product Architect @ Elance-oDesk
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California
Led, designed and built various backend features within multiple product teams. Responsible for building and scaling our new distributed Microservices architecture built in Java using DynamoDB, PostgreSQL (RDS), Kafka etc.

### Product Architect @ oDesk
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Redwood City, California
Led engineering teams across our product from client services to user acquisition and marketplace experience.

Managed remote teams of sizes from 5-12 people working on various parts of our stack building both frontend and backend features (PHP, Python, Perl).

### R&D Engineer @ Agilent Technologies
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
I provide support to the various teams within my group using web based tools and technologies, leveraging various platforms like Java, PHP, MySQL etc. Things I have worked on so far include:
•	Have built a data reporting tool for HR to collect and analyze the skills available within our employee pool – in Python/Django.
•	Worked with the Alfresco CMS application – used it’s PHP API to build custom workflows. Have also customized the web client’s look and feel to pull information from external databases and display them in-line.
•	Setup the PHPList  tool to enable mass mailing for employees.
•	Build custom PHP forms to inject data into a database.

### Junior Java Developer @ Xtivia
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
•	Customizing and building Java apps on top of various portal platforms like IBM WebSphere and Liferay.
•	Installing and administering Windows 2000 and 2003 servers, IBM WebSphere in clustered as well as standalone environments and Oracle Database Servers.
•	Customized Swing Java apps to visually display new, edited and cancelled entries compared to data stored in the database.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rmanocha

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Source: https://flows.cv/rishabhmanocha
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rishabhmanocha/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11