Milind Kumar Mishra

Experience

Product EngineerFull Time
Foyer (Merlin AI & Thine)Feb 25 - Present (1y)

Building AI products for 2M+ users. Ownership across platform stability and Expressive UI.

  • Revamped Model Selector UX with discovery grid interface, increasing model adoption by 40%
  • Shipped ChatGPT history import feature enabling 3,500+ users to migrate from ChatGPT to Merlin
  • Improved payment flow reducing transaction failures by 25%, implemented churn intervention flows improving retention by 15%
  • Built real-time prompt enhancement with streaming architecture, reducing perceived latency to under 200ms
  • Engineered animation-heavy experiences for Thine using optimized motion design patterns, maintaining 60fps performance at scale
Founding Product EngineerFull Time
StartupHire & Proof-of-Skill ProtocolAug 23 - Feb 25 (1y 6m)

Built 0 to 1 hiring and skill validation platforms. Owned frontend, devops, growth tools, and product velocity in early-stage chaos.

  • Architected and shipped decentralized skill validation MVPs with voting consensus across 150+ validators, reducing hiring bias through algorithmic evaluation
  • Built proctored assessments with real-time streaming infrastructure, reducing time-to-interview by 50%
  • Developed recruiter dashboards with analytics, heatmaps, and search functionality, improving candidate discovery and data-driven decision making
  • Built AI-powered assessment generation system using Vercel AI SDK and OpenAI API, automating question creation for 20+ skill domains
  • Shipped internal tools and ops dashboards improving campaign ROI tracking and operational efficiency by 30%
Software Engineer & Research AssistantFull Time
Locus Connect & NYCUJul 22 - Jul 23 (1y)

Industry-academia R&D on real-time IoT positioning systems. Shipped research-grade accuracy into production.

  • Built 3D positioning and visualization systems for industrial IoT applications, improving UWB positioning accuracy from 20cm to under 10cm research-grade precision
  • Developed MQTT-based dashboards for real-time IoT device monitoring and visualization across 50+ connected devices
  • Dockerized microservices architecture reducing deployment time by 80% while maintaining 99.9% uptime
UX Designer & Technical Content WriterInternship
iNeuron.ai & PlusklassJan 22 - Jun 22 (5m)

UX, design systems, and technical education. First taste of shipping things people actually use.

  • Designed onboarding flows and maintained component-based design system, increasing development velocity by 35%
  • Authored beginner-friendly HTML, CSS, and JavaScript educational content adopted by 2,000+ learners, improving course completion rates by 25%
  • Created marketing collateral and landing pages contributing to 20% increase in lead generation

Projects

Full-stack AI product generating personalized learning roadmaps with 5,600+ organic users

  • Developed end-to-end solution with prompt engineering, structured LLM output parsing, canvas-based visualization, and responsive UX
  • Generated 250+ career roadmaps using real-time streaming architecture with OpenAI API
  • Built custom canvas rendering engine for interactive node-based navigation with drag-and-drop functionality

Open-source JSON debugging and visualization tool with tree and grid view options

  • Achieved 143 unique users with 43% return rate, including one power user with 49 sessions
  • Implemented JSON formatting, validation, and exploration with tree and grid visualization modes supporting deeply nested structures

Talks

Open Source Contributions

Education

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

Skills