Mani Kuramboyina

Mani Kuramboyina has a diverse and extensive work experience. Mani joined Ninja Van as a Software Engineer Intern during the early seed funding stage, where they played a crucial role in bootstrapping early-stage logistics solutions. Mani worked closely with the CTO and was involved in all stages of delivery, including architecture design, development, deployment, and performance tuning. Kuramboyina then progressed to become a Senior Software Engineer, leading the bootstrap of key business/product bets and core platform and infrastructure services. During this role, they led the development and launch of Ninja Van's first consumer-facing app, Ninja Easy, and designed and developed an Authentication & Authorization (A&A) framework for the network of applications. Mani continued to advance in their career, taking on the role of Staff Software Engineer, where they played a key role in Ninjavan's Kubernetes adoption and managed the cluster to meet the P&I requirements. Kuramboyina then moved up to becoming a Senior Staff Software Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager, leading and managing multiple engineering teams and product verticals at Ninja Van, including Customer Experience, Incubator/Greenfield, Platforms & Devex, and Distributed Database Infrastructure teams. In this position, they oversaw the development of internal tooling, productivity, and housekeeping platforms, as well as actively driving the adoption of next-generation scalable databases. Currently, Kuramboyina is serving as the Chief of Staff to the CTO at Ninja Van, collaborating closely with the CTO to shape the technology strategy and guiding the company's tech vision. Mani is also the Head of Engineering (India), leading a dynamic team in building innovative solutions that transform the delivery industry. Prior to Ninja Van, Kuramboyina worked as an Assistant Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services.

Mani Kuramboyina pursued a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University between 2008 and 2012. Later, they completed a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from the National University of Singapore in the year 2014 to 2015.