# Pratham Mishra > Building Bifrost - Fastest AI Gateway | Founder, Interact Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pratham Engineer and systems builder with a passion for performance and AI-native infrastructure. I built Interact, a real-time collaboration platform adopted by 7,000+ students as the one-stop hub for all college-related activities. I then architected Bifrost, the fastest open-source LLM gateway written in Go, engineered to handle 5,000+ RPS while adding just 11β€―Β΅s of overhead on modest hardware without compromising on any features for an LLM gateway. My background spans full-stack development (Go, TypeScript, Python), alongside published research in NLP and 3D GenAI. I recently graduated with a CS degree from VIT. Now exploring problems at the intersection of AI, performance, scaling and developer tooling. ## Work Experience ### Engineer @ Maxim AI Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Building Bifrost, the fastest and most scalable AI gateway πŸš€ Took Bifrost from concept to production within 3 months, establishing the core architecture and foundations, and now working with a growing team to scale it further. β€’ 5K+ RPS with <15Β΅s internal overhead on t3.large β€’ Multi-provider routing with retries & fallbacks β€’ Plugin-based architecture (plug-and-play extensions) β€’ MCP gateway (with agentic flow and code mode support) β€’ Adaptive load balancing β€’ Fine grained governance Hiring Go engineers! ### Founder @ Interact Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Built and scaled Interact, a student-centric networking and collaboration platform used across the university. β€’ 6,000+ active users for project discovery, collaboration, and opportunity matching β€’ Scaled to handle 100K+ requests over 7 days with high efficiency β€’ End-to-end club & event management (tasks, workshops, hackathons, resources) β€’ Official hosting platform for 50+ events with 5,000+ participants, including VIT Yantra’25 β€’ In-platform meetings & workshops β€’ ML-powered recommendations, moderation, automation and code reviews β€’ Microservices-based architecture deployed on GCP with CI/CD Designed and built the platform end-to-end, owning its architecture, scaling, and production rollout. ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Vellore Institute of Technology Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India Worked on three research papers focused on NLP, Generative AI, and Explainable AI. β€’ Developed a lightweight NLP model using transformers to analyze climate change policies and assess alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), generating data-driven ontologies for better decision-making. β€’ Enhanced a generative AI model for automated 3D CAD model creation in bioprinting, utilizing medical imaging data (MRI/CT) to generate 3D point clouds with conditional input pipelines. β€’ Investigated explainability in generative AI models, specifically focusing on latent space in diffusion models to improve interpretability and transparency. Also contributed to various other researches across the domains in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Electronics in limited capacities. ### Vice Chairperson - Tech @ Computer Society of India - VIT Student Chapter Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Led and managed all technical aspects of CSI-VIT. ### Backend Engineering Intern @ Fam Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India β€’ As a Backend Developer Intern at Fam, I majorly worked on reconciliation and ledger services. β€’ Developed robust and maintainable automation scripts for streamlining various backend processes. β€’ Implemented scripts for testing and evaluating queries. ### Software Developer Intern @ Dyte Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Dyte simplifies the integration of video and audio conferencing for developers by providing user-friendly SDKs. β€’ As a full-stack developer, I leverage my expertise to seamlessly integrate video conferencing using Dyte's SDKs, streamlining the development process with their user-friendly solutions. β€’ Primarily working on accounts and dev portal micro services, enhancing security and implementing new features. ### Mentor/Teacher @ RK Academy Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Thane, Maharashtra, India Since I cleared the JEE-Advanced 2021 Examination, I was asked to mentor/coach a bunch of students who were to appear for the examination the following year. ### Founder @ Lyrikplasm Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 My Youtube channel with over 170K+ subscribers and a total of 140M+ views, where i posted animated/typography lyric videos to showcase my animation skills. ## Education ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science spec. Data Science, Computer Science Vellore Institute of Technology ### Class 12 B.K. Birla School (Science) ### Class 10 Podar International School - India ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pratham-mishra --- Source: https://flows.cv/pratham JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pratham/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05