Engineering manager and tech lead for distributed systems in blockchain and payments. Early Go engineer on a rollup node, then led its 5-engineer team to production; shipped 2 mainnet protocol changes; now a PM prototyping agentic payment experiments.
Current role
Manav is a Product Manager at Celestia Labs, where he has worked since March 2022. He runs discovery for agentic-commerce products and co-designed an agent micropayments scheme on x402 for paid content at the CDN edge.
Career path
- Joined Rollkit, a rollup framework, as its third engineer and built the core of its node in Go (2022–2023).
- Led the Evolve team as engineering manager and tech lead, managing 5 engineers and taking the stack to production (2023–2025).
- Led the Interop team, managing 3 engineers, and authored CIP-45 and CIP-46, both shipped to Celestia mainnet (2025–2026).
- Before Celestia: software engineer at Two Sigma on time-series storage, and an intern at Meta on probabilistic programming.
- B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University (2021).
The full history, with links to specs and code, is on the resume.
About this site
This is Manav's personal resume site. It is written to be read by people and by AI agents: every page has a Markdown version, the resume is also published in the JSON Resume format, and llms.txt indexes everything. It is a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages and was last updated on 2026-11-03.