MANIK RANA

AI Engineer

Noida, IN.

About

Highly accomplished AI Engineer with a proven track record of building and launching AI products, specializing in agent systems, web, and mobile development. Leverages deep expertise in interaction design and open-source contributions to deliver high-impact solutions that significantly increase engagement, accelerate processes, and enhance system performance. Adept at transforming complex concepts into robust, scalable applications for diverse user bases.

Work

Puch AI (TurboML)

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Founding Engineer

Remote, Global, XX

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Summary

As a Founding Engineer, designed and implemented core AI agent frameworks and full-stack applications, driving significant improvements in user engagement and operational efficiency.

Highlights

Designed and implemented Puch's core AI agent loop and LLM harness using Python/FastAPI, incorporating advanced tool orchestration and context management capabilities.

Refined system prompts and conversation behaviors, successfully increasing session engagement by a notable 60%.

Co-designed a RAG document agent utilizing hybrid BM25/vector retrieval, which accelerated data ingestion by 300% and reduced context pollution by 50%.

Developed browser- and mobile-use tooling for AI agents, enabling navigation of websites and control of Android apps with secure user handoff for authentication and payment.

Engineered end-to-end web and React Native applications, supporting streaming chat, citations, and advanced image/video generation features.

Built analytics and feature-flag services using PostHog, ingesting and backfilling sessions for over 1,000,000 users via scheduled jobs and Redis checkpoints.

TurboML

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Software Engineering Intern

Remote, Global, XX

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Summary

Led the frontend redesign of TurboML's platform and developed a continual learning system, significantly improving load times and code reuse.

Highlights

Led the comprehensive frontend redesign for TurboML using Next.js, React Server Components, and TanStack Query caching, reducing load time by 40% and redundant requests by 35%.

Developed a continual learning platform with FastAPI and React, facilitating real-time model training and updates from streaming data.

Unified frontend applications and shared components within Turborepo, increasing code reuse by 40% and decreasing build time by 30%.

CNCF Prometheus

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Contributor (Google Summer of Code 2024)

Remote, Global, XX

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Summary

Contributed to CNCF Prometheus by extending its Go parser and optimizing memory throughput for metric stream processing.

Highlights

Extended Prometheus's Go parser to include created-timestamp support, enabling accurate rate calculations for previously unsupported metric streams.

Implemented in-memory parser caching and targeted microbenchmarks, enhancing memory throughput by 300%.

Education

Amity University Noida, UP

Noida, UP, India
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Bachelor Computer Applications Grade: 8.88/10

Languages

English

Skills

Programming Languages

Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, SQL, HTML, CSS.

AI & Agents

Agent harnesses, Tool orchestration, Context management, Prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Hybrid retrieval, Agent evaluation, Browser use, Mobile use.

Product Development

React, React Native, Next.js, TanStack Query, Zustand, Skia, Reanimated, Framer Motion.

Backend & Infrastructure

FastAPI, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Docker, AWS, CI/CD.

Projects

Agent ChangeBench

Summary

A research initiative focused on benchmarking AI agents' adaptability to evolving user requests across diverse domains, providing critical insights into tool efficiency and recovery.

AgentSims

Summary

A mobile development workspace designed for engineers and coding agents to build and debug applications with live iOS/Android simulator control, demonstrating high task completion rates.

Crucible

Summary

A software factory incorporating a kanban-based coding-agent armory, recognized for its innovative approach in a prominent buildathon.

Gust

Summary

A React text-animation library providing reusable components for creating dynamic and engaging animated typography.