Core R&D engineer, Red Hat Inc., JBoss Division.; Project lead on Infinispan and JBoss Cache
London, United Kingdom
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- Lead R&D Engineer at Red Hat Inc.
- Past
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- Co-founder, CEO and chief engineer at Mobot LImited
- Lead R&D Engineer at JBoss Inc.
- Senior consultant/architect at Conchango plc
- CTO at Silkroad Services Limited
- Education
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- University of Wales, Swansea
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Manik Surtani’s Summary
Technologist, visionary and entrepreneur. Strong roots on academic research coupled with good appreciation for commercial values. Focused on making "technology work for mankind", not the other way around. Proven skills and strong interest in enterprise Java, distributed computing and mobile and wireless technology. Keen advocate of open source software.
Manik Surtani’s Specialties:
Open source software
Enterprise Java
Distributed Computing
Mobile computing
Software architecture and design
Manik Surtani’s Experience
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Lead R&D Engineer
Red Hat Inc.
(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Updated to reflect Red Hat acquiring JBoss, where JBoss is now a division within Red Hat.
Founder and project lead, Infinispan. Project lead, JBoss Cache. Co-founder and core-developer on JClouds. Core contributor on a number of JBoss products, including JGroups, and the JBoss clustering stack. Infinispan, JBoss Cache and JGroups are core building blocks to many Java based clustering solutions. -
Co-founder, CEO and chief engineer
Mobot LImited
(Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — January 2009 (5 years 1 month)
Co-founder and CEO of high tech mobile computing startup. Our flagship product and service is i-text (http://i-text.it) which allows users to send text SMS messages from their phone for free, bypassing network providers. In exchange, the i-text application occasionally delivers advertisements to your phone. Users reserve the right to choose whether they want to see ad ad or not, and can also pick which ads they see based on a description and the number of credits offered by the advertiser.
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Lead R&D Engineer
JBoss Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Lead R&D Engineer on JBoss Cache and core contributor on a number of JBoss products, including JGroups, and the JBoss clustering stack. JBossCache and JGroups are core building blocks to many Java based clustering solutions.
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Senior consultant/architect
Conchango plc
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 10 months)
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CTO
Silkroad Services Limited
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 8 months)
Co-founder and CTO of London based tech startup. Silkroad Services specialised in e-commerce suites for the then fast-growing field and offered an ASP-type model where customers could set up web shops using our fully automated tools and subscribe on a monthly basis.
In addition, we also experimented with a secondary service, an information management community not dissimilar to what is now Google Answers or Experts Exchange. We offered this service on an ASP model as well, targeted as a tool for corporate helpdesk services.
Manik Surtani’s Education
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University of Wales, Swansea
BSc (1st class) , Computing
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