Milind Kumar Mishra

Product Engineer

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

Merlin AI by Foyer · 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.

SARAL · 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.

Proof-of-Skill Protocol · 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.

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.

Locus Connect (NYCU) · 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.

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

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