--- title: "Manish Bisht - Staff Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal" description: "Meet Manish Bisht, Staff Engineer @ VideoVerse | Scaling Platforms, Reliability & Developer Productivity | Distributed Systems | AI-Assisted Engineering | Ex BookMyShow, Dive | GSoC ’17 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including g..." image: "https://tal.club/meet/manish-bisht-1/share-image" --- # Manish Bisht on Tal ## 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 [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/manish-bisht-1) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/manish-bisht-1#person", "name": "Manish Bisht", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/manish-bisht-1", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/manish-bisht-1/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet Manish Bisht, Staff Engineer @ VideoVerse | Scaling Platforms, Reliability & Developer Productivity | Distributed Systems | AI-Assisted Engineering | Ex BookMyShow, Dive | GSoC ’17 based in Bengaluru. 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