Maninder “Mani” Nandha
Co-founder · The domain edgeMani has spent 18+ years leading multi-discipline engineering teams — electrical, mechanical, structural, instrumentation and controls — across Australia and internationally, working within global MNCs and OEMs across mining and heavy-industry fabrication. He has run engineering groups of up to 40 people across multiple countries, owned design authority and technical sign-off, and carried delivery accountability on multi-million-dollar programs.
His edge is end-to-end command of the process — he knows how work actually moves from design through manufacturing, project management, commissioning and site support. Not just how a drawing is made, but how the whole thing gets built and delivered. That whole-process view is what makes the tools he builds land in the real workflow rather than beside it.
The AI work isn't a pivot — it's the same thread he's pulled for fifteen years, from SAP-to-CAD data integration early in his career through to the document-intelligence tools he builds today. It runs on one principle he won't bend: deterministic logic owns anything correctness-critical, AI does triage and advisory flagging only, and qualified human sign-off is never automated. In safety-critical, standards-governed engineering, that discipline is the entire point.
He holds a Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing Technology and is a Lean Six Sigma practitioner — continuous improvement being the constant across every role: find the waste, then remove it.