Milind Kumar Mishra
Experience
Product EngineerFull Time
Foyer (Merlin AI & Thine)Feb 25 - Present (1y)Feb 2025 — 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)Aug 2023 — Feb 2025 (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)Jul 2022 — Jul 2023 (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)Jan 2022 — Jun 2022 (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
AI Roadmap GeneratorAug 2024
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
JSON VisualiserOct 2024
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
Building a Component Distribution System with shadcn Registry[React Bangalore]
Mastering ViewTransition in React for Stunning UI Updates[React Play Bengaluru]
Building Real-Time Applications with Reactive Databases[React Play x React Bangalore]
AI for React Developers[React Bangalore]
Open Source Contributions
feat: add speech to text input to prompt area and update test and example apps #112[vercel][vercel/ai-elements]
Education
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University - Research Program, CSE
Jul 2023Visvesvaraya Technological University - Bachelor of Engineering, ECE
Sep 2022