Raz ManoachUnited States

Software Engineer

I build production software for complex enterprise environments. Over the past four years, I've worked directly with global life sciences customers to turn operational requirements into reliable software built with Java, Python, and SQL.

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Raz Manoach · United States

Areas of interest

Selected Work

Software products, developer tools, and systems projects
CatalyxProduction

Enterprise Alarm Management Platform

Enterprise software

JavaSQL ServerTime-series dataOn-premises software
Contribution
Built Java backend services for a vendor-agnostic, On-premises alarm-management product used in regulated manufacturing. The platform brings live alarm monitoring, acknowledgment, and shelving together with historical analytics, operational KPIs, and compliance reporting.
Impact
Eliminated per-event database lookups through batched queries and in-memory joins, improving historical event processing by 10x. A full year of data that previously crashed the application now processes in about 28 seconds.
CatalyxEngineering tooling

Declarative Workflow Provisioning

2024–Present

JavaWorkflow orchestrationDeclarative configurationAutomation
Contribution
Replaced error-prone manual configuration of complex manufacturing workflows with a declarative Java framework. Structured specifications describe each workflow, while dependency-aware provisioning builds its hierarchy in the correct order and makes setup reproducible.
Impact
Removed a major barrier to automated end-to-end testing by making stateful workflows reproducible without manual UI configuration.
CatalyxEngineering tooling

Enterprise Import and Data Migration

Backend engineering

JavaSQL ServerData migrationJSON / XML / CSV
Contribution
Built a Java import/export engine that converts SQL, CSV, JSON, and XML sources into a common model, then reconstructs nested configurations with generated-key remapping, preserved cross-references, and transactional writes.
Impact
Reduced a manual configuration rebuild-and-retest workflow from hours to approximately 10 to 15 seconds while preserving relational integrity.
CatalyxEngineering tooling

End-to-End Backend Testing Infrastructure

2024–Present

JavaJUnitREST APISQL ServerCI
Contribution
Built integration-test infrastructure for a Java application whose platform resources only exist inside the running runtime. Authenticated HTTP endpoints let Gradle/JUnit tests create real workflows, invoke backend services, and verify database state, generated IDs, and rollback behavior from the IDE or CI.
Impact
Replaced manual verification of critical persistence behavior with repeatable integration tests against a live application and database.
Georgia Tech OMSCSGraduate project

Distributed File System with gRPC

April 2026

C++17gRPCProtocol BuffersLinuxinotify
Contribution
Built a C++17 distributed file system using gRPC and Protocol Buffers, with concurrent client operations, file synchronization, weakly consistent caching, and coordinated writes.
Impact
Used filesystem event notifications and asynchronous callbacks to propagate changes, with server-side locking to serialize conflicting writes.
Georgia Tech OMSCSGraduate project

Machine Learning Strategy Comparison

April 2025

PythonNumPyPandasDecision TreesBacktesting
Contribution
Built and compared Python trading-strategy models using decision trees, random forests, feature engineering, bagging, hyperparameter search, and out-of-sample evaluation.
Impact
Evaluated model behavior under transaction costs and changing market conditions rather than relying on a single accuracy metric.

About

Experience and education

  1. 2024–PresentGraduate study

    M.S. Computer Science

    Georgia Tech OMSCS

    Pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science with a focus on systems, distributed computing, and machine learning. Graduate work includes multithreaded C, C++, gRPC, and distributed file systems. Expected May 2027; current GPA 3.83.

    SystemsMachine learningDistributed computing
  2. 2022–PresentProduction

    Backend and Product Engineering

    Catalyx

    Build and support production software for regulated life sciences operations. My work spans real-time alarm management, configurable manufacturing workflows, data processing, enterprise integrations, and reliable Java/Python backends.

    JavaPythonSQLBackendTypeScriptREST APIs
  3. 2019–2021B.S. completed

    B.S. Mechanical Engineering

    Temple University

    Studied systems modeling, quantitative analysis, and engineering under real-world constraints. Graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.67.

    Mechanical engineeringSystems modelingQuantitative analysisMATLAB