Manik Surtani
Head of Open Source
Block
Manik Surtani is the Head of Open Source at Block (formerly Square). At Block, Manik has previously led engineering teams at Square and Cash App. Before joining Block, Manik was Staff Engineer at Red Hat. He was the founder and lead engineer of the Infinispan project and platform architect on the JBoss Data Grid. Manik has a background in AI, distributed and fault tolerant systems, and performance tuning of JVMs. Manik 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.