Manvendra Singh

Software engineer focused on product UI, APIs, and systems.

Profile

Software Engineering (Honours) graduate who enjoys full-stack work: building interfaces, wiring APIs, fixing messy bugs, and improving software that people actually use.

Experience

Software Developer, PoliceTax

Jun 2026 - present

Build and maintain production tax websites in PHP and JavaScript, including shared components used across PoliceTax and five sister sites.

  • Standardised shared headers, footers, and responsive styling across six live websites.
  • Refactored legacy templates, site-specific calls to action, and outdated interface elements into a more consistent system.
  • Troubleshoot PHP templates, booking modals, responsive layout issues, and production caching quirks.

Software Engineering Intern, Diagno Energy

Nov 2025 - Mar 2026

Built customer-facing React interfaces for a data-heavy energy platform and supported production issues across frontend and API layers.

  • Built a Portfolio Map with React, TypeScript, and React-Leaflet for navigating large solar fleets and site-level issues.
  • Integrated GraphQL and Apollo data while tightening TypeScript types around backend models.
  • Triaged more than 20 Jira tickets by reproducing bugs and tracing faults across browser and API layers.

Lead Instructor, Junior Engineers

Oct 2022 - present

Teach Python to primary and secondary students, turning programming concepts into lessons people can actually follow.

  • Teach classes of 20-25 students.
  • Design practical lessons around computational thinking.

Software Engineer, HPC Lead, Monash DeepNeuron

Apr 2023 - Jul 2025

Built and operated a small distributed research cluster, including scheduling, command-line tooling, networking, and support material.

  • Ran containerised workloads across nodes with OpenMPI and implemented a lightweight scheduler core in Go.
  • Built Python CLI tooling for job submission, monitoring, retries, and operational support.
  • Improved reliability through Linux networking, health checks, alerting, debugging, and practical runbooks.

Software Engineering Intern, Alex Solutions

Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

Delivered and supported features for a React and Node.js data-orchestration application used by more than 200 enterprise users.

  • Optimised Node.js REST APIs to improve response time by approximately 25% and documented them for handover and QA.
  • Improved AWS CodeDeploy workflows, reducing deployment time by approximately 40%.
  • Wrote regression checks with SQL and AWS tooling to cover important production workflows.

Leadership

President, DiversIT Monash

2023 - 2024

Led a student technology club and coordinated committee work across events and member initiatives.

  • Improved communication and delivery across the committee's events and initiatives.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering

Jul 2017 - Apr 2024

Monash University

Selected work

Global energy dashboard

Data visualisation and frontend

An interactive Vega-Lite project that turns several energy datasets into linked comparisons across countries, continents, and time.

Equipment health monitoring platform

Full-stack engineering

A production-shaped monitoring app for simulated asset telemetry, live alerts, incident history, and asset-level investigation.

HydroSync mobile prototype

Mobile UI and backend team project

A React Native concept for checking hydration trends and keeping an eye on family members from one mobile flow.

Technical skills

languages

PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, SQL, Bash, Go

frontend

React, Next.js, React Native, HTML, CSS, React-Leaflet, ECharts, Vega-Lite

backend

Node.js, Express, Django, FastAPI, REST APIs, GraphQL, Apollo, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

Platform and tools

AWS, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy, Linux, Jira, Confluence