About the Author

Mantavya Gajjar has 10+ years of experience in Odoo, starting from TinyERP and OpenERP. He started his career as a developer and has developed many features in TinyERP, OpenERP, and Odoo. He initiated a mobile application project at the Indian office. He has a graduate and postgraduate degrees in computer science from Gujarat Vidyapith. He completed his studies in May 2006. On 1st June 2006, he started working for Axelor and TinyERP at Ahmedabad.

He was the first international employee, appointed to establish a branch of Tiny ERP in India (Ahmedabad, Gujarat). He has done everything, from registering a legal company to setting up the physical office and recruitment. He has interviewed more than 8,000 candidates in the past 10 years, selecting 300 candidates and training them for the Indian branch. Most professionals working on Odoo in India are trained by him. As a result, today India (Ahmedabad, Gujarat) is called the Hub of Odoo Developers. Today, there are over 1,000 Odoo developers in Gujarat alone.

Mantavya is actively engaged with many universities to prepare and review the syllabus for computer applications and computer science courses. As a reviewer, he has reviewed thousands of academic student projects. Being an alumnus of the Gujarat Vidyapith Computer Science Alumni Association, he contributes his free time to various social activities. He also plays the role of a trustee member and treasurer at Gujarat Vidyapith Computer Science Alumni Association. He has been a reviewer for the book, Working with OpenERP, by Packt.

In his spare time, he likes to play cricket with friends and drives to new destinations by road with his wife and daughter.