Power User Spotlight: Persistent’s Manish Gupta a Finalist in 2023 Unqork Creator Hackathon

Watch Manish present his finalst submission

Meet Manish

With 17 years of professional experience, Manish started his career as a traditional coder, eventually specializing as a .NET developer. In 2017, he joined the Persistent Systems team, and he began his journey as an Unqork creator in 2019. In the last four years, he has quickly progressed to become a Senior Architect. 

In the meantime, Manish has earned his Professional Configurator Certificate and a badge for his Unqork Agile Framework (UAF) skills. He has also been named an Unqork SME for his generous contributions to the Unqork community on the Community Hub.

What he loves about Unqork

• More creativity, less “cruft.” What Manish likes most is the fact that Unqork gets rid of cruft—all boring repetitive tasks developers have traditionally spent way too much time on. By getting rid of cruft, Manish says he can focus on the more rewarding aspects of development. “With Unqork, you don’t have to do all that duplicative work,” he says,  Manish. “I can be more creative and focus on turning ideas into practical applications.” 
• Data workflows. Unqork’s data workflow component is an ETL tool that makes it much more intuitive for creators to transform, manipulate, and move data. “It lets you easily transform one format to another format without writing a single line of code,” says Manish. 

The power of Dynamic Refresh

Unqork’s Dynamic Refresh feature enables seamless content delivery by refreshing (or loading) parts of an Unqork application without reloading the entire page. This speeds performance and makes changes in content on a page feel intuitive, helping to keep users engaged. 

His 2023 Hackathon submission: Conference Manager

To streamline and automate conference management as much as possible, Manish used Unqork to create a conference management solution, including fast and intuitive guest registration and the ability for managers to choose from a range of predefined, customizable dashboards with predefined KPIs. 

To create faster, more personalized, and more engaging user experiences, Manish leveraged Unqork’s new Dynamic Refresh capability. “With Dynamic Refresh, you only load components that are being used,” says Manish, making it much easier to ensure both fast performance as well as personalized experiences across different roles.