Background

Hello, Mithun here. 👋 I am an engineering leader and software engineer with 8+ years of experience building and scaling products in startups from seed to late stage.

As a Founding Engineer @ Skit.ai, I’ve worn every hat possible throughout my career, particularly enjoyed technical leadership roles focused on making things happen. Recently, I led the Platform & Infrastructure teams to accelerate Product development & delivery that enabled us to ship software & models faster, reliably and securely.

Timeline

1995-2000: Early life
2000-2016: Education
2016-2018: Software Engineer @Voonik
2018-2024: Founding Engineer @Skit.ai
2024 & Beyond: Building the future.

Experience

Entrepreneur In Residence @Antler

Researched and prototyped startup ideas, reassessing direction after evaluating founder-market fit and gaining valuable insights for future opportunities.

Founding Engineer @Skit.ai

Head of Infrastructure

Scaled the tech team to support $10M+ ARR growth, hiring 30+ engineers and leading platform and devops engineering teams with 15+ engineers to enable faster, reliable, and secure product iteration.
Led cross-functional initiatives to achieve PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO-27001, and SOC2 compliance by enhancing infrastructure and product security, mitigating potential security risks.
Optimized cloud cost by 50% within 4-5 months, collaborating with multiple teams to identify and reduce inefficiencies across 10+ cloud services.
Reduced mean time-to-detect (MTTD) for non-functional repeat incidents to under 10 minutes, by improving observability and alerting for critical infrastructure and applications using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo.

Engineering Manager

Built and led Solutions & DevOps Engineering teams with 15+ engineers from inception to maturity, delivering 30+ enterprise client projects before transitioning leadership.
Led the design and implementation of an AI-native cloud telephony platform with a 3-member team, scaling to 1M+ calls/day in 6 months, eliminating telephony bottlenecks, and significantly accelerating client go-live timelines.
Led the redesign and implementation of infrastructure automation and CI/CD for 50+ microservices across 20+ environments, leveraging Ansible, CloudFormation, and Helm, reducing deployment lead times to under an hour.

Founding Engineer

Built and shipped the MVP of the product within 6 months, designing a scalable architecture and developing critical backend systems in Python and Go, enabling early adoption.
Designed and implemented a loosely-coupled and cloud-native architecture leveraging Kubernetes, deployed across 10+ cloud and on-premise environments, ensuring fault-tolrent and resilient systems with enterprise readiness.
Achieved product-market fit (PMF) by iterating on features based on customer feedback, securing $1M+ ARR and adoption by early customers, including 2 of India’s top 5 banks and a leading airline.

Software Engineer @ Voonik

Started as the sole engineer on the team, growing it to 5 engineers.
Built an internal-facing product to detect and mitigate fraud leveraging transactional and clickstream data, preventing $100k+ in financial losses.
Resolved 30+ high-severity vulnerabilities, strengthening product security and preventing data breaches by collaborating with external hackers and internal teams.
Reduced mean time-to-resolve (MTTR) for security regressions from 3-4 weeks to under 1-2 days by automating scans for core infrastructure & applications.

Software Intern @ Zoho

Gained hands-on experience with industry-standard software development practices, tools & workflows by contributing to the product codebase and documentation.