Bio
Mati’s first interaction with Manas was sending a pull request to our handbook. That is just an example of his involvement with the open source world: he is not afraid of getting his hands dirty and contributing to plenty of projects inside and outside Manas. Fun and outgoing, our git master is also a TA in Operating systems and Programming Paradigms at UTN.
Last year’s activity
Blog Posts
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Manas is yours. Make it so.
I’ve recently turned 10 years working at Manas, a feat I didn’t expect to reach at anything in life - let alone a job. So I took some time to reflect on how that came to happen, and wrote kind of an open letter for the rest of the people I share this... -
QuickTip: Recover a transferred Github repo’s wiki
As part of our projects’ lifecycles, a few months ago we transferred two Github repositories from our organization to our client’s own organization, for them to keep working on the project after our contract ended. That’s business as usual, and wasn’... -
Why do we care about HTTP request methods?
Or “The power of conventions” It was a Wednesday, many years ago. It was a Wednesday because it was Cheating Wednesday. After a couple of relatively close Wednesdays in which we organised different after offices, we started naming these events like t... -
Approaching unconventional problems
Or “How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?” A few weeks ago, I went on a trip with my dad, uncle, cousin and a couple of their friends in order to share an off-road trip on ATVs across the jungle. There were about twelve of us e... -
EpiHack Myanmar 2016
From April 25th to 29th, Juan & I went all the way to Yangon, to facilitate on the EpiHack Myanmar 2016. EpiHack is a hack-a-thon that brings developers and health professionals together to create technology that addresses specific issues around infe... -
Crystal podcast on TheChangelog
Remember Crystal? Like, that little project of ours that’s completely misrepresented in our own website? Well, fortunately, it seems we’re the only ones doing that - the language just got featured on The Changelog. Episode #192 – @CrystalLanguage wit... -
Custom 404 page with Middleman on Amazon S3
While we continue to improve our website, one of the things that was getting really annoying was this “beautiful” error page that AWS shows when navigating to nonexistent pages: AWS S3 default 400 error page We wished there was some Middleman extensi... -
middleman-search: client-side search in your Middleman site
We’ve built a Middleman extension called middleman-search that’ll enable client-side search in your Middleman site. Go get it! After years of having our company site powered by Wordpress, we got tired of it and migrated to the oh-my-god-it-has-markdo... -
CDx Pilot in India
The last days of August I flew to New Delhi with Nico to kick off an initial pilot of CDx. CDx stands for Connected Diagnostics platform, a project we are developing for InSTEDD in partnership with FIND. The CDx Platform is an aggregator of medical d... -
Introducing: hg-to-git
Hi there! Today I’ve managed to migrate one of our Mercurial repositories to git. The migration process was smoothly done by fast-export, but it left the new repository in a kind-of-messy status - a really dirty working copy, and closed branches were...
Projects
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SMS Gateway
1 /3 Client Nuntium is an open-source development created for InSTEDD, which emerged as a common factor from multiple applications which needed to exchange text messages, mails, tweets or any other kind of messages. 2 /3 Approach Nuntium takes care o... -
Award voting platform
1 /4 Client El Ojo de Iberoamérica is an international advertisement creativity award that's been growing for the past 25 years. Behind it is LatinSpots, a media company specialized in communication, advertising, marketing, film, events and entertain... -
Connecting trucks with cargo
1 /5 Client Avancargo is an Argentinean company who seeks to optimize land transport in Latin America, by facilitating the process of finding and booking cargo vehicles through a platform that puts together supply and demand in one place, thus simpli... -
Multi-modal survey tool
1 /6 Client Surveda was developed in collaboration with InSTEDD as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative NCD Mobile Phone Survey. In the context of this project, the tool collects critical information about noncommunicable d... -
Service location optimization
1 /5 Client PlanWise is a tool developed by Concern’s Innovations initiative, in partnership with InSTEDD. It helps planners and responders in low-resources settings see how they can serve as many people as possible, as cost-effectively as they can,... -
Connected Diagnostics
1 /6 Client CDx (Connected Diagnostics initiative) is a collaborative initiative between InSTEDD and FIND that seeks to use diagnostic data to improve healthcare delivery, outbreak detection and response, and health systems management, working also a... -
Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics
1 /5 Client The RADx-rad Data Coordination Center Discovery & Diagnostics Core (RADx-rad DCC Dx Core), based at UC San Diego, is focused on closing the loop between data acquisition, structuring, analysis, data-driven modeling, decision support, impl... -
Maximizing operation rooms utilization in healthcare
1 /4 Client Wúru is a health-analytics provider, whose platform leverages data and algorithms to enhance the productivity of healthcare providers and create better experiences for patients. Founded in 2019 and led by Luciano Tourn, their platform fee... -
Technology that thinks like a fashion editor
1 /5 Client Everywear is the brainchild of Brandon Holley, and it’s self-defined as the first B2B technology platform to bring editorial authority to e-commerce, through personalized recommendations. What does that mean? In their CEO & founder’s own... -
Simplifying medical testing requests
1 /4 Client Biomakers specializes in genetic and molecular studies for cancer and other complex diseases, operating mostly in Latin America. They provide physicians and patients with comprehensive molecular diagnostic services and advice. This was a... -
Data-Driven Healthcare Delivery
1 /5 Client Wúru is a health-analytics provider, whose platform leverages data and algorithms to enhance the productivity of healthcare providers and create better experiences for patients. Founded in 2019 and led by Luciano Tourn, their platform fee... -
Connected communities
1 /3 Client LocalBuzz is a social media company that seeks to bring people, businesses, and communities together via user-generated video content. They propose a novel way for users to find a new restaurant, a great new band to see, or an experience... -
Amplifying knowledge sharing
1 /5 Client Amplio is a Seattle based company with a mission to empower the world’s most vulnerable communities through knowledge sharing. They have developed a robust offering that combines innovative technology, services, and a network of in-countr... -
Helping soulmamas find each other
1 /5 Client Socialmama is a Houston based startup founded by Amanda Ducach, that aims to help mothers connect with each other. The idea for the app was born as Ducach struggled to help a friend of hers with a child’s new medical diagnosis, knowing al... -
Tracking Health Status
1 /4 Client Health Check was developed in partnership with InSTEDD for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine of the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), to keep track of the wellbeing of federal employees that were traveling fro... -
Perfect gifts, every time
1 /5 Client The idea for Dearduck came to founder Katy Aucoin as a realization: gift giving was supposed to be a beautiful, fun and thoughtful thing, and instead most people experienced it as an awkward and uncomfortable process, filled with anxiety... -
Time tracking
1 /4 Concept Brium tracks the time each member of your team spends on different activities, by asking them through chat what they are doing. A couple of words a day is all it needs to provide your company with accurate timesheets. 2 /4 Requirements &... -
Docker Cloud on iOS
1 /4 Concept Tugboat offers the first mobile experience to manage Docker Cloud accounts for iPhone and iPod users. 2 /4 Requirements & Context Tugboat was developed purely because Manas’ own engineers wanted a way to manage Docker deployments from a... -
Risk Mapping
1 /3 Client Voices of Youth Maps is a collaboration program between UNICEF, youth communities and local governments, developed through the InSTEDD iLab LatAm. 2 /3 Approach This initiative seeks to connect teenagers with an opportunity to document an...