Manu Ajith

I build startups from the first commit.

Startup CTO and founding engineer. I've been CTO twice and stayed hands-on in the code both times. 15 years writing software, much of it distributed systems in Elixir, and lately production AI infrastructure.

Tell me what you're building

I also take on advisory work, fixed-scope projects, and fractional CTO roles. How consulting works.

  1. Working copy: kxyvnmrp build main

    An AI-native platform for US warehouses and delivery fleets, on LLMs we host, fine-tune, and evaluate ourselves

  2. Maintained: smtwqoru release svix

    Elixir client for the Svix webhook API

  3. Maintained: ptvozlrq release pi-jj-suite

    jj workspaces, agent runs, and multi-model code review for the pi coding agent

  4. Maintained: lzrnwyot release langfuse

    Elixir client for Langfuse, the open-source LLM tracing tool

  5. Immutable: rqkvsxlm build

    A B2C logistics startup with next-day doorstep pickups, built as CTO from the first commit to millions of events a day

  7. Immutable: nwoqypzu build

    An SEO analytics platform on Elixir, Go, and Rust microservices, with rotating-proxy crawlers and billions of rows in ClickHouse

  8. Immutable: tpkmlzqo build

    A peer-to-peer calling and texting platform for political campaigns, on clustered Elixir, handling millions of calls and texts a day through a US election

  9. Immutable: wvzqmtlo build

    The core backend for a video conferencing product, on distributed Elixir and Phoenix with Amazon Chime for media

  10. Immutable: yxnoprtw build

    Production and GPU training infrastructure for a synthetic data startup's GAN models, with custom JDBC drivers bridging Erlang and the JVM

  11. Immutable: pwuzsqnk build

    Consulting for startups around the world, mostly in Elixir, Rails, and Go

  12. Immutable: xmtqvlpo build

    Event-sourced Elixir apps with CQRS

  13. Immutable: uqlrnzkm build

    An IoT platform for a fleet of Wi-Fi routers, built as RabbitMQ microservices behind device APIs

  14. Immutable: oumxqyzl build

    A consultancy I co-founded as CTO and grew to about 50 people

  15. Immutable: qlznvopk build

    First web apps, in Ruby on Rails and PHP

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