About
Manu Zope studied Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and worked as a software engineer at PagerDuty for five years on distributed systems and integrations, followed by a role as Engineering Manager at Sentry.io leading the integrations and API team.
Founder at Demo GorillaYC W22
Intro paths
YC
Manu went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Manu can intro founders to Demo Gorilla's investors below.
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Experience
- FoundEngineering Manager, Banking & Riskcurrent2026 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- FoundEngineering Manager, Banking2025 — 2026Seattle, Washington, United States
- FoundSoftware Engineer2023 — 2025Seattle, Washington, United States
- Demo Gorilla (YC)Co-Founder2022 — 2023Seattle, Washington, United States
- Sentry (sentry.io)Engineering Manager2019 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- Sentry (sentry.io)Senior Software Engineer2019San Francisco Bay Area
- PagerDutySenior Software Engineer2014 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- TwitterSoftware Engineering Intern2013San Francisco Bay Area
- TripAdvisorSoftware Engineering Intern2012Greater Boston
- IMVUSoftware Engineering Intern2012Mountain View
- RBC Capital MarketsWeb Developer2011Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- OpenTextSoftware Developer2010Waterloo, ON
- EricssonSoftware Dev/Support2010
Skills & more
ScrumAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development68K3Data Structures and Algorithms5Programming3Amazon Web Services (AWS)C5C++9Java31Python29PHP18
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UbuntuMac OS XC#Altera QuartusSQLRubyOS XSubversionEclipseLinuxHTMLLanguages English · Hindi · Marathi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Manu Zope?
- Manu Zope studied Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and worked as a software engineer at PagerDuty for five years on distributed systems and integrations, followed by a role as Engineering Manager at Sentry.io leading the integrations and API team.
- Where does Manu Zope work?
- Manu Zope is Founder of Demo Gorilla.
- What companies did Manu Zope found?
- Manu Zope founded Demo Gorilla.
- Where did Manu Zope go to school?
- Manu Zope studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering).
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