About me
Manik Surtani is the Head of Open Source Programs at Block (formerly known as Square). At Block, Manik has previously led engineering teams at Square and Cash App.
Before joining Block, Manik was Senior Principal Software Engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. He is the founder of the Infinispan project and platform architect on the JBoss Data Grid.
Manik has a comprehensive background in artificial intelligence and neural networks, highly available e-commerce systems and enterprise Java. Surtani is a strong proponent of open source development methodologies, ethos, and collaborative processes, and has been involved in open source since his first forays into computing.
