Headline

Staff Engineer @ VideoVerse | Scaling Platforms, Reliability & Developer Productivity | Distributed Systems | AI-Assisted Engineering | Ex BookMyShow, Dive | GSoC ’17

About

I’m a Staff Engineer at VideoVerse working across platform engineering, product systems, frontend platforms, backend services, cloud infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, and developer tooling for large-scale media workflows. Over the last decade, I’ve built and scaled customer-facing systems across media, SaaS, fintech, ticketing, startups, and open source — including VideoVerse, Let’s Dive, BookMyShow, Covalent Capital, and Google Summer of Code 2017 with phpMyAdmin. My work sits at the intersection of architecture, engineering productivity, and product delivery: modernizing platforms, designing distributed systems, improving reliability and observability, standardizing release/testing workflows, enabling AI-assisted engineering, and helping teams move ideas to production faster. I tend to work backwards from customer problems, ship the smallest useful version, and then build the systems, tooling, and engineering foundations needed to make it reliable at scale. Core areas: Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, NestJS, AWS, CI/CD, Playwright, Observability, Developer Productivity, Applied AI Workflows, Engineering Excellence, Open Source.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

mcp

Wispr Flow

Work experience

Staff Engineer at VideoVerse, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, - 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 manish.bisht@magnifi.ai

Lead Engineer at VideoVerse, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr, - 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 manish.bisht@magnifi.ai

Software Development Engineer II at Let’s Dive, Dec 2020 - Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo, India, Dive helps you clearly define roles, goals, and tasks for each meeting so that everyone arrives feeling prepared and leaves feeling energised. - 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 - Signup at https://app.letsdive.io for access - For Referrals email manish@letsdive.io

Software Development Engineer at BookMyShow, Sep 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, - 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 manish.bisht@bookmyshow.com

Software Engineer at Covalent Capital, May 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - 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 manish@covacap.com

Mentor, Code Reviewer and Beta Tester at Udacity, Feb 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos, India, - Beta tested new courses and nanodegrees. - Reviewed and mentored projects for several nanodegrees, including Blockchain, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Security, Front-End Web Development, and Data Structures and Algorithms.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Jaipur

High School, IX-XII, Defence Public School

Public links

github: https://github.com/manishbisht

medium: https://medium.com/@manishbisht

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/manishbisht

codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/manishbisht

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@manishbisht02