Milind Kumar Mishra

Experience

(3y 9m total)
Product Engineer / Design EngineerFull Time
Thine / Merlin AI by FoyerFeb 25 - Present (1y 2m)

Own frontend execution across Merlin's customer-facing product surfaces and Thine's web experiences, spanning product engineering, UX systems, payments, and AI-native interfaces.

  • Owned product experience, user experience, and frontend implementation for a browser agent built inside a Chrome extension sidebar
  • Led design system improvements across the Merlin website to raise UI consistency, implementation speed, and overall product quality
  • Maintained various payment flows for the Merlin website, ensuring a smoother purchase and subscription experience for customers and better campaign outcomes for the marketing team
  • Owned the frontend for Merlin's customer-facing web product, delivering core user journeys across merlin projects, engagement, retention and support experiences
  • Built interaction-heavy AI product flows for Merlin, including imports, chat history improvements, merlin projects, and responsive motion systems
  • Developed the Thine website and shaped its product storytelling through a polished, image sequence scroll experience
Software EngineerFull Time
SARAL - The Influencer OSDec 24 - Feb 25 (2m)

Improved internal product workflows for support, growth, and campaign operations.

  • Revamped internal dashboard to improve visibility of key metrics for support and growth teams
  • Implemented multi-select drag-and-drop interactions for faster bulk operations
  • Built a content submission UI to streamline approvals and accelerate campaign execution
Founding Product EngineerFull Time
Proof-of-Skill protocolJun 24 - Dec 24 (6m)

Led product engineering for an assessment and skill validation platform from MVP to deployment.

  • Led frontend development for MVP flows across Skill Validators, Candidates, and Recruiters
  • Designed and implemented validator UI with voting and consensus-driven assessment validation
  • Built real-time assessment recording and proctoring integrations to improve data integrity and malpractice detection
  • Architected core systems and handled end-to-end deployment for platform availability
Lead Frontend EngineerFull Time
StartupHireAug 23 - Jan 24 (5m)

Led frontend execution for recruiting workflow and Gen AI product prototypes.

  • Led a team of two developers to build a recruiting pipeline prototype
  • Integrated multiple job boards to centralize candidate applications and improve recruiter visibility
  • Managed deployments for Gen AI workflows to ensure stable operation
Frontend Engineer / Research AssistantFull Time
Locus Connect / National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityJul 22 - Jul 23 (1y)

Built product, research, and visualization systems for a 3D indoor positioning platform across industry and university collaboration.

  • Developed and maintained frontend for a 3D indoor positioning product and related marketing experiences
  • Maintained frontend systems for indoor positioning with integrated IoT data pipelines
  • Enhanced 3D visualization using React, GSAP, and Three.js
  • Improved HDOP calculations and z-index accuracy from around 20 cm to under 10 cm
  • Managed infrastructure tasks across switch configuration, load balancers, Docker deployments, and bare-metal services

Selected Projects

attnuiNov 2025

UI component library focused on polished interaction design, motion systems, and production-ready frontend primitives

Role: Product EngineerTeam: 1Duration: Nov 2025 - PresentStatus: Live
  • Designed reusable component patterns with an emphasis on motion quality, visual consistency, and implementation ergonomics
  • Built production-ready primitives that improve delivery speed while maintaining a higher UI quality bar across frontend builds

JSON inspection and visualization tool for debugging deeply nested payloads across tree and grid views

Role: Product EngineerTeam: 1Duration: Oct 2024 - PresentStatus: Live
Unique Users: 143Return Rate: 43%
  • Built a unified inspection workflow that combines validation, formatting, and multi-view exploration for complex payloads
  • Implemented tree and grid renderers optimized for nested JSON structures with efficient expand and collapse interactions
  • Reached 143 unique users with a 43% return rate, including one user with 49 sessions as of Mar 2026

Markdown editing and preview tool for fast iteration on technical writing workflows

Role: Product EngineerTeam: 1Duration: Dec 2025 - PresentStatus: Live
  • Built a low-latency editing and preview workflow to reduce context switching while drafting markdown-heavy content
  • Implemented rendering and editing utilities that keep technical writing workflows responsive and predictable

Talks

Open Source Contributions

Education

Jul 2023
Visvesvaraya Technological University - Bachelor of Engineering, ECE
Sep 2022

Skills