About Me
Manish Bisht
I'm,
Manish
Bisht
STAFF ENGINEERVIDEOVERSEINDIA · IST
[email protected]
Resume →GitHub ↗LinkedIn ↗

Engineering that starts with the customer.

I work backwards from the customer problem, ship the smallest thing that solves it, and build the engineering rigour to make it last. A decade across frontend, backend, and platform — now applying it to AI-assisted products and workflows.

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10+ yrs
shipping to production
100+
enterprise customers served
~7M
events / month, event-driven
−60%
observability cost in 4 weeks
OPEN TO ROLES IN
Applied AIFrontendBackend & platformConsulting
Let's talk ↗
Open to Applied AI, Frontend, and Backend rolesFull-time or selective consulting · reply in < 24h · See engagements ↓
ENGAGEMENTS

Engagements,
not gigs.

Taking new engagements1–2 clients at a timeRemote · IST friendly

I take a small number of consulting engagements each year — typically with seed–Series B startups that need senior frontend architecture, backend and platform work, applied-AI integration, or developer-productivity help. Also open to the right full-time role.

Not a freelance marketplace. Not a code-monkey. I write the RFC, work alongside your team, and leave you with something that survives my departure.

01
Frontend architecture review

I audit your codebase, ship a written RFC, and stay on as a thinking partner through the migration.

TYPICAL DURATION4–8 weeks
02
Design system from scratch

Tokens, components, contribution model, ownership.

TYPICAL DURATION8–12 weeks
03
Performance & observability

From Web Vitals to traceable error budgets.

TYPICAL DURATION4–6 weeks
04
Developer productivity audit

Turbo / Nx, CI, testing infra, dev loop times.

TYPICAL DURATION3–4 weeks

Start with a short note describing the problem and a rough timeline. I'll reply in <24h with whether I'm the right fit — or who is, if I'm not.

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EXPERIENCE

A decade across product, platform, and engineering leadership.

From founding Run4Offers and early startup engineering to leading VideoVerse teams, with production work across media, ticketing, fintech, SaaS, and developer platforms.

VideoVerseNOW

Staff Engineer
Remote, India
January 2025 — Now
3 + 1dev teams + QA team
SNS/SQSCloud StorageWebhooksFTP/SFTPAPMTracingPagerDutyDatadogLast9PlaywrightAI-assisted workflows
  • Designed event-driven architecture (SNS/SQS) processing ~7M lifecycle events/month across clips, streams, and publishing; replaced synchronous workflows with independently scalable consumers enabling parallel team execution
  • Scaled media distribution platform for 100+ enterprise customers and 50K+ monthly workflows across 10+ integrations (cloud storage, webhooks, social, FTP/SFTP); improved reliability via retries and failure isolation
  • Defined observability and incident-response standards across 30+ services (APM, tracing, alerting, synthetics, PagerDuty); reduced production acknowledgment time from 20–30 min to <2 min and improved post-deploy issue detection
  • Led observability migration from Datadog → Last9 across 30+ services; preserved SLOs/alert fidelity while achieving ~60% cost reduction in ~4 weeks
  • Built engineering productivity and quality systems for a 20-person team; scaled Playwright automation (~60% critical flows), post-deploy validation (~40%), and AI-assisted engineering workflows with repo-level guardrails
  • For referrals: [email protected].

VideoVerse

Lead Engineer
Remote, India
January 2024 - December 2024
v2migration
MicroservicesServerlessCI/CDE2EPrettierESLintSonarQubeGitLeaksProgressive Rollouts
  • Led V2 platform modernization for a media product serving 100+ enterprise customers and 550K+ clips/month; designed phased migration across 40+ routes and decomposed the monolith into ~5 microservices and 20+ serverless workloads enabling zero-downtime, independent releases
  • Redesigned CI/CD and release governance for a ~20-engineer team; replaced biweekly deployments with daily production releases via automated quality gates (lint, static analysis, E2E) and progressive rollout strategies
  • Defined engineering foundation standards across frontend, backend, and serverless systems; standardized repo structure, quality tooling (Prettier, ESLint, SonarQube, GitLeaks), and onboarding - reducing new engineer ramp-up time from 2–3 weeks to < 1 week
  • For referrals: [email protected].

Let's Dive

Software Development Engineer II
Remote, India
December 2020 - December 2023
#3Founding Engineer
WebChrome ExtensionZoomAI Note-takingFrontend ArchitectureRelease ManagementQA Automation
  • Founding engineer at a B2B SaaS startup acquired by VideoVerse; built and shipped product experiences across web, Chrome Extension, and Zoom as the company evolved into an AI note-taking platform
  • Acted as frontend tech lead partnering with CEO/CTO on technical scope, release management, and cross-surface delivery while mentoring engineers on architecture and deployment workflows
  • Owned end-to-end product and engineering execution - core feature delivery, release quality, QA automation, onboarding, and product-health improvements
  • For referrals: [email protected].

BookMyShow

Software Development Engineer
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
September 2019 - November 2020
−94%server error logs
APIsMobile WebDesktop WebPhonePeSSOOTPPHPNginxHAProxyCookie Security
  • Built API-driven home and listings experiences across mobile and desktop platforms.
  • Reduced mobile website server error logs by 94%.
  • Implemented PhonePe Integration, including SSO Login, on mobile website.
  • Designed and deployed one-time password (OTP) login module on mobile website.
  • Optimized mobile website login pages by eliminating PHP codebase.
  • Developed modern header and footer components for mobile website.
  • Migrated mobile website redirection logics from Nginx to HAProxy for improved performance.
  • Strengthened user-specific cookie security for enhanced safety.
  • Part of Web Platform, Members and Discovery Team.
  • For referrals: [email protected].

Covalent Capital

Software Engineer
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
May 2018 - August 2019
−85%production build size
ReactReact NativeiOSAndroidPWAPush NotificationsWeb ComponentsWebpack
  • Configured development and staging servers.
  • Developed React Native app for iOS and Android.
  • Converted Web/Mobile versions to PWA.
  • Implemented Push Notifications and Add to Home Screen functionality for PWA.
  • Created Web and Mobile versions of Order Management and Allocation System (OMAS).
  • Designed custom web components like Input, Table, Select, AutoComplete, SVG, etc.
  • Optimized production build size by 85% by updating webpack from v1 to v4.
  • Upgraded ReactJS and other libraries from v15.4 to v16.8, improving overall performance.
  • Streamlined FrontEnd Code and File Structure of OMAS.
  • For referrals: [email protected].

BlueCube Network

Software Engineering Intern
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
May 2016 - June 2016
3intern team
Admin DashboardHTMLCSSJavaScript
  • Collaborated with two interns to develop an admin dashboard for perfmon.io, providing user, website, and system stats to increase profits and reduce product costs.
  • Designed and coded one-page Drone Buying Guide using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Run4Offers

Founder/CEO
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
July 2015 - December 2015
15k+monthly website views
Affiliate PortalCashbackWebsite DevelopmentPromotionsOperations
  • Created affiliate portal for cashback on partner shopping orders from Amazon, Flipkart, etc.
  • Achieved 15k monthly website views within two months of launch.
  • Conducted successful promotional stall within college campus with team.
  • Designed and developed entire website.
  • Managed operations to break even with no profit or loss.
OPEN SOURCE

Two summers in the open source.

Google Summer of Code 2017 on phpmyadmin core, then a 6-week Facebook Open Source mentorship in 2018 contributing to Facebook Instant Articles.

SKILLS

Applied AI, frontend, and backend — and the infra between.

01

AI-Assisted Engineering

  • GitHub Copilot / Cursor / Codex
  • Claude Code
  • AI-Assisted Code Review
  • Developer Workflows
  • Agentic Engineering Systems
02

Languages & Frameworks

  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • TypeScript
  • ReactJS
  • React Native
  • Node.js / Redux
03

Frontend Systems

  • HTML / CSS
  • Reusable frontend architecture
  • State management patterns
  • Design systems
  • PWA and mobile web
04

Platform & Reliability

  • Microservices
  • Event-Driven Architecture (SNS/SQS)
  • Serverless (AWS Lambda, Cloud Run)
  • REST APIs / System Design
  • Scalability / Reliability Engineering
05

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • HAProxy / Nginx
06

Delivery & Quality

  • CI/CD
  • Release Engineering
  • Feature Flags
  • Playwright
  • End-to-End Testing
07

Engineering Standards

  • SonarQube
  • ESLint
  • GitLeaks
  • Engineering Standards
  • Synthetic Monitoring
08

Observability

  • Datadog / Last9
  • Distributed Tracing / APM
  • Logging / Monitoring
  • SLOs / PagerDuty
  • Incident Response / RCA
09

Data & Tooling

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • BigQuery
  • Airbyte
  • Metabase
FAQ

Quick answers.

Who is Manish Bisht?
Manish Bisht is a Staff Engineer at VideoVerse, based in India, with a decade of experience across product, frontend, backend, and platform engineering. He works across distributed systems, media infrastructure, and developer tooling, defining architecture under ambiguity and building reliable, observable, high-velocity platforms.
Where has Manish Bisht worked?
VideoVerse (Staff Engineer since January 2025, Lead Engineer in 2024), Let's Dive (founding engineer and SDE II, 2020–2023, acquired by VideoVerse), BookMyShow (Software Development Engineer, 2019–2020), and Covalent Capital (Software Engineer, 2018–2019). Earlier he interned at BlueCube Network and founded Run4Offers in 2015. He holds a B.Tech in Information Technology from Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology.
What does Manish Bisht specialise in?
Platform and distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architecture on SNS/SQS, serverless on AWS Lambda and Cloud Run); observability and incident response (Datadog, Last9, tracing, PagerDuty, SLOs); CI/CD, release engineering, and developer productivity (Playwright, SonarQube, feature flags); React, TypeScript, and Node.js; and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
What are some of his notable results?
At VideoVerse he cut incident acknowledgment time from 20–30 minutes to under 2 minutes across 30+ services, reduced observability cost by about 60% by migrating from Datadog to Last9, moved a ~20-engineer team from biweekly to daily production releases, and led a V2 platform modernisation serving 100+ enterprise customers and 550K+ clips a month. At BookMyShow he reduced mobile server errors by 94%.
What open source work has he done?
He was a Google Summer of Code 2017 student on phpMyAdmin core, and in 2018 completed a six-week Facebook Open Source mentorship contributing to Facebook Instant Articles.
Is Manish Bisht available for hire or consulting?
Yes. He is open to staff and principal engineering roles, selective freelance work, and consulting engagements in frontend architecture, backend and platform work, applied AI, and developer productivity. He takes one or two clients at a time and replies within 24 hours.
How can I contact Manish Bisht?
Email [email protected], or reach him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/manishbisht02 or GitHub at github.com/manishbisht.
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