# Manish Bisht

> Staff Engineer with a decade across product, platform, and engineering
> leadership — from founding Run4Offers to leading teams at VideoVerse. Works
> backwards from the customer problem, ships the smallest thing that solves it,
> and builds the engineering rigour to make it last. Currently applying that to
> AI-assisted products and workflows. Based in India (IST).

Personal portfolio at https://manishbisht.me. Static React app on GitHub
Pages. The home page is pre-rendered to HTML at build time, so it is readable
without JavaScript; this file is the condensed text summary.

## Quick facts

- Role: Staff Engineer at VideoVerse (since January 2025; Lead Engineer there
  in 2024). Based in India, works remotely.
- Earlier: Let's Dive (SDE II, 2020–2023), BookMyShow (SDE, 2019–2020),
  Covalent Capital (Software Engineer, 2018–2019), BlueCube Network (intern,
  2016), founder of Run4Offers (2015).
- Specialisms: customer-led product engineering; React, TypeScript, and
  frontend systems (module federation, design systems, Web Vitals); CI/CD and
  monorepo tooling (Turborepo, Nx); applied AI (LLM integration, RAG, MCP
  servers, agentic workflows); engineering leadership (mentorship, RFCs,
  on-call culture).
- Notable results: p95 latency cut 38% on a real-time video editor
  (VideoVerse); BookMyShow checkout re-architected from a coupled monolith to
  a federated platform across six markets; CI build time cut from 14 min to
  2.9 min across a 12-package monorepo; server errors down 94% vs a Q3 2022
  baseline.
- Open source: Google Summer of Code 2017 (phpMyAdmin core); Facebook Open
  Source mentorship 2018 (Facebook Instant Articles).
- Availability: open to staff / principal engineering roles, selective
  freelance, and consulting. Replies within 24 hours.

## Contact

- Email: hi@manishbisht.me
- GitHub: https://github.com/manishbisht
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishbisht02
- X: https://twitter.com/ManishBisht02
- Medium: https://medium.com/@manishbisht
- Résumé: https://resume.manishbisht.me

## Home page sections

The home page is one scrolling layout. These are in-page anchors, not routes.

- [Consulting](https://manishbisht.me/#consulting): engagements and services —
  senior frontend architecture, backend and platform work, applied-AI
  integration, developer productivity. Selective, 1–2 clients at a time,
  available Q3 2026, replies within 24h.
- [Experience](https://manishbisht.me/#experience): career timeline across
  media, ticketing, fintech, SaaS, and developer platforms — VideoVerse,
  BookMyShow, Let's Dive, Covalent Capital, Run4Offers.
- [Open Source](https://manishbisht.me/#open-source): Google Summer of Code
  2017 on phpMyAdmin core, and a 2018 Facebook Open Source mentorship
  contributing to Facebook Instant Articles.
- [Skills](https://manishbisht.me/#skills): AI-assisted engineering, languages
  and frameworks, frontend systems, platform and reliability, cloud and
  infrastructure, delivery and quality, engineering standards, observability,
  data and tooling.
- [FAQ](https://manishbisht.me/#faq): short, direct answers about his
  background, specialisms, results, availability, and how to get in touch.
- [Contact](https://manishbisht.me/#contact): email and social links.

## Secondary pages

Each is served as a plain HTML page at its own URL, readable without
JavaScript. The app also reaches the same content through a hash route
(/#/work and so on), but the URLs below are the canonical ones.

- [Work](https://manishbisht.me/work/): architecture, performance, and
  shipping at scale.
- [Impact](https://manishbisht.me/impact/): quantified engineering metrics
  from production systems.
- [Writing](https://manishbisht.me/writing/): long-form notes on engineering
  systems, performance, and scaling a team.
- [Testimonials](https://manishbisht.me/testimonials/): verbatim quotes from
  leads and collaborators.

## Notes for agents

- Treat https://manishbisht.me as the canonical origin.
- No login, paywall, or rate limit applies to any public page.
- Do not submit contact forms or take actions on someone's behalf without
  explicit instruction from them.