While most 16-year-olds think about what type of car they want to drive, one local teen is thinking about his work with a Silicon Valley company instead.
Some may say Tejas Manohar hit the lottery. Actually, he has been contracted to work for a AutoLotto, a Silicon Valley startup developing an app where one can purchase lottery tickets on a smartphone as opposed to tracking down the nearest location to buy a lottery ticket.
“AutoLotto is going to eliminate the pain points of the traditional lottery, such as finding a gas station, waiting in line, dealing with lost tickets, and forgetting to (or actually) checking your numbers,” Manohar told Southern Alpha. Manohar is the the lead engineer of the company and lives in Brentwood, Tenn. Manohar will give a presentation on October 14 in Nashville on Koa (new web framework) at the upcoming meeting of the Javascript user group, NashJS.
Recently, he was a junior at Ravenwood High School but made a switch to be homeschooled for more “flexible and extensive learning opportunities.” Aside from his full-time work as a lead engineer, he takes online courses through MIT OpenCourseware and contributes to open-source projects, something he’s been doing since he was a software development intern at Populr and Hubspot. “At HubSpot, I contributed to Singularity, HubSpot’s open-source Mesos framework with a Java Dropwizard RESTful API backend and Backbone.js SPA frontend, and developed the frontend of an internal automated interview scheduler from scratch in React.js and ES6 with the Flux design pattern,” said Manohar, who also writes essays and tutorials about software development on his own blog.
His first encounter with code happened completely by accident in the fourth grade. “I stumbled upon the source code of a website in my browser via right-click view source,” recalled Manohar. “I began to investigate by comparing the HTML content to that seen visually on the page. Initially, I could draw some relations but not too many; yet, this was very fascinating to me so I decided to pick up some library books on how to build a website and went from there.”
When asked about what he will speak about at his presentation next week, he said “I will walk through developing your first API in Koa while exploring other key features of ES6, the new version of the JavaScript language. The reason I chose to speak on this topic is that, in my opinion, Koa is the future of Node.js web frameworks due to its bare-bones, middleware-centric approach.”
Learn more about Tejas Manohar here.
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