Milind Kumar Mishra Product Engineer milindmishra.work@gmail.com 9631333128 https://milindmishra.com https://github.com/thatbeautifuldream | https://linkedin.com/in/milindmishra | https://x.com/milindmishra_ | https://cal.com/milind EXPERIENCE Product Engineer / Design Engineer | Thine / Merlin AI by Foyer Feb 2025 — Present 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 Engineer | SARAL - The Influencer OS Dec 2024 — Feb 2025 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 Engineer | Proof-of-Skill protocol Jun 2024 — Dec 2024 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 Engineer | StartupHire Aug 2023 — Jan 2024 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 Assistant | Locus Connect / National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Jul 2022 — Jul 2023 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 PROJECTS attnui | https://attnui.com | Role: Product Engineer | Status: Live UI component library focused on polished interaction design, motion systems, and production-ready frontend primitives - 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 Visualiser | https://jsonvisualiser.com | Role: Product Engineer | Status: Live JSON inspection and visualization tool for debugging deeply nested payloads across tree and grid views - Unique Users: 143 (All-time (as of Mar 2026)) - Return Rate: 43% (All-time cohort (as of Mar 2026)) - 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 Visualizer | https://markdownvisualizer.com | Role: Product Engineer | Status: Live Markdown editing and preview tool for fast iteration on technical writing workflows - 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 SKILLS JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS, Git, Docker, REST APIs, MQTT, Zustand, React Query, Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI API, D3.js, Framer Motion, Figma, CI/CD EDUCATION National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | Research Program, CSE | Jul 2023 Visvesvaraya Technological University | Bachelor of Engineering, ECE | Sep 2022 TALKS Building a Component Distribution System with shadcn Registry | React Bangalore | https://meetup.com/reactjs-bangalore/events/312620988 Mastering ViewTransition in React for Stunning UI Updates | React Play Bengaluru | https://meetup.com/reactplay-bengaluru/events/311437528 Building Real-Time Applications with Reactive Databases | React Play x React Bangalore | https://meetup.com/reactplay-bengaluru/events/307690438 AI for React Developers | React Bangalore | https://meetup.com/reactjs-bangalore/events/306320480 OPEN SOURCE feat: add table markdown copy and csv/markdown download options #99 | https://github.com/vercel/streamdown/pull/99 feat: add download functionality to code blocks #102 | https://github.com/vercel/streamdown/pull/102 feat: add image download functionality with hover controls #103 | https://github.com/vercel/streamdown/pull/103 feat: add speech to text input to prompt area and update test and example apps #112 | https://github.com/vercel/ai-elements/pull/112