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# Milind Kumar Mishra

## Product Engineer

+91 96313 33128 · [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) · [milindmishra.com](https://milindmishra.com) · [GitHub](https://github.com/thatbeautifuldream) · [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/mishramilind) · [X](https://x.com/milindmishra_)

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## Skills

- **Languages:** TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS
- **Frontend:** React, Next.js, TanStack Query, Zustand, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, Motion, Three.js, Vite, Turborepo
- **Desktop and Extensions:** Electron, WXT, Chrome Extensions, Service Workers, Streamdown, Tiptap
- **Backend and AI:** Express, Zod, Redis, Firebase, BigQuery, Stripe, Model Context Protocol, Composio, Anthropic, OpenAI

## Experience

### Product Engineer, AI SaaS

**[Merlin AI by Foyer](https://www.getmerlin.in/chat) · Feb 2025 – Present · Bengaluru, India**

- Shipped the Merlin AI chat platform across 130+ tagged releases, delivering ChatGPT chat imports, projects and sharing, a chat history command palette, and an auto-routing model selector.
- Built Merlin Agent, an Electron and React desktop coding agent, from zero to v1.0 in 5 weeks with streaming chain-of-thought tool calls, an approval gate for privileged actions, and Composio MCP integrations.
- Built the Merlin browser agent on WXT and React, shipping v8 with a shadow-DOM page overlay, pilot-mode approval gates for autonomous browsing, and per-session MCP tool selection.
- Owned monetization across React surfaces and Node API endpoints, delivering Stripe guest checkout, coupon-tier and regional pricing, top-ups, team seats, and Churnkey plan-change flows.
- Led a design-system revamp, migrated the chat renderer to Streamdown and the marketing site to Next.js 15 and React 19, and reviewed 250+ teammate pull requests while codifying frontend conventions.

### Software Engineer — Influencer Management

**[SARAL](https://www.getsaral.com/) · Dec 2024 – Feb 2025 · Bengaluru, India**

- Revamped internal analytics dashboards with React, TypeScript, and reusable UI patterns, giving growth and operations teams clearer visibility into customer workflows and campaign metrics.
- Built creator content submission and approval workflows, reducing manual coordination across operations, creators, and internal review teams during influencer campaigns.
- Implemented multi-select drag-and-drop bulk actions for campaign operations, reducing repetitive creator-management steps and improving internal workflow speed.

### Founding Product Engineer — Candidate Assessment & Recruitment Software

**[Proof-of-Skill Protocol](https://www.proofofskill.org/) · June 2024 – Dec 2024 · Bengaluru, India**

- Built the frontend for a 3-sided assessment marketplace across validators, candidates, and recruiters, turning ambiguous 0-to-1 product requirements into launch-ready workflows.
- Designed consensus-driven validation, assessment, and review experiences with clear UX states, scalable interaction patterns, and trust-focused decision flows.
- Built real-time recording, proctoring, API integrations, and candidate integrity workflows to support reliable remote skill assessment and evaluation.

### Frontend Engineer (Lead) — AI Recruitment Software

**[StartupHire](https://www.linkedin.com/company/startuphire/) · Aug 2023 – Jan 2024 · Remote**

- Led frontend delivery for a recruiting workflow SaaS platform, improving candidate pipeline management, hiring operations, and recruiter productivity.
- Integrated multiple job boards and application sources into a unified recruiter dashboard, centralizing candidate intake, workflows, and pipeline visibility.
- Shipped recruiting automation and GenAI-powered product features from planning to release, supporting recruiter screening, outreach, and pipeline management workflows.

### Frontend Engineer — Realtime Location SaaS

**[Locus Connect (NYCU)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/locus-connect/) · July 2022 – July 2023 · Hsinchu, Taiwan**

- Developed real-time 3D indoor maps with React, Three.js, and GSAP, rendering live IoT telemetry through state management and rendering optimizations for a 3D indoor positioning platform.
- Improved indoor positioning accuracy from 20 cm to under 10 cm through HDOP optimization, telemetry analysis, and iterative calibration.
- Managed production infrastructure with Docker, NGINX, load balancers, and networking configurations to keep real-time visualization environments stable.

## Education

### National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Hsinchu City, Taiwan · Research Program, Computer Software Engineering · July 2023

### Visvesvaraya Technological University

Karnataka, India · Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication · Sep 2022