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type: profile
status: verified
sources:
  - manohargupta.com
  - resume
  - journal essays
  - project repos
  - founder copy
updated: 2026-06-07
tags:
  - identity
  - profile
  - people
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# 👤 Manohar Gupta

> *Engineer turned finance professional driving renewable energy — and a builder at heart.*

**Location:** Gurugram, India · **Web:** [manohargupta.com](https://www.manohargupta.com)
**Family:** wife **[[Family Overview|Yashika]]**, daughter **Viradhya "Tia"** (b. 5 Sept 2025 — the namesake of [[Tia]])

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## Professional Summary
Manager at **[[Renewables Overview|ReNew]]**, specialising in **project finance for utility-scale solar (50–300MW)**. Fuses a technical foundation (**IIT Roorkee**, Mechanical) with financial expertise (**IIM Rohtak**, MBA, 🥇 Gold Medalist) to make clean-energy projects bankable. Outside the day job, a prolific builder of finance tools, AI agents, IoT systems, and SaaS — most notably **[[Tia]]**, a baby-tracking product built for his own family.

## Personal Mission
> Make renewable-energy projects economically viable, and build technology that **supports family life rather than competing for attention** — preserving what matters, at human scale.
*(Synthesised from his site + Tia's founding ethos. Refine in your words.)*

## Values (evidenced in his own writing)
- **Discipline & determination** — *"no matter what it takes, I will not take only an MBA degree but will carry a Gold medal"* ([[Timeline|Gold Medalist essay]])
- **Self-belief / dare to dream** — *"Believe in yourself. Dare to dream. Dreams do come to life."* (Scholarship essay)
- **Accountability** — publicly told his batch "I will win the gold medal" to create pressure to perform
- **Care, patience, trust, privacy, respect** — the [[Tia - Origin Story|Tia parenting creed]]
- **Privacy over profit, patience over speed, substance over notifications**

## Core Identity (multi-hat)
Finance professional · Renewables expert · Technical founder ([[Tia]]) · Software developer · AI builder · Investor · Systems thinker · Research-driven learner

## Domains of Focus
[[MOC - Renewables|Renewables & Energy]] · [[MOC - Investing|Finance & Investing]] · [[MOC - AI|AI & Agents]] · [[MOC - Startup|Startup Building]] · [[MOC - Software|Software & Self-hosting]] · [[MOC - Learning|Knowledge Management]]

## Technical Expertise
- **Energy:** PVsyst, Helioscope, AutoCAD, **[[8760 Energy Simulation Model|8760 hourly simulation]]** (Python + Pandas), solar feasibility, rooftop design
- **Finance:** project-finance modeling, debt sizing, DCF, due diligence, information memorandums
- **Software:** Next.js / React / TS, Python (FastAPI/Flask), PostgreSQL + Drizzle + pgvector, Docker
- **AI:** LLM apps, agent frameworks, MCP, prompt engineering, vision pipelines
- **IoT:** ESP32 / DHT11 / MQTT (see [[IoT - ESP32 and DHT11]])
- **Infra:** self-hosting, Dokploy, Cloudflare R2, Tailscale, Hetzner ([[Self-Hosting]])

## Strengths (evidenced)
- **Turns "below average" into #1 through systems** — his own framing: not a born genius; engineered the Gold Medal via routine + accountability
- **Rare finance × engineering × software stack** — few can model an 8760 *and* ship the SaaS
- **Ships relentlessly** — 20+ repos; [[Tia]] alone 400+ commits
- **Builds from lived problems** — [[Tia]] (parenthood), [[Credit Analyzer]] (own finances), [[Whisper Hotkey]] (own workflow)

## Featured Builds
[[Tia]] · [[REModel]] · [[Credit Analyzer]] · [[TradeBuddy]] · [[Clawd Ecosystem]] · [[8760 Energy Simulation]]

## ✍️ Open prompts (remaining)
- [ ] Biggest **weakness / growth edge** right now?
- [ ] 3–5 year **ambition** — what does success look like?
- [ ] Who shaped your thinking most?

## Related
[[Home]] · [[Timeline]] · [[Decision Log]] · [[Investment Philosophy]] · [[Family Overview]]