Maanil Verma — Co-Founder

Founding Engineer at Story.com, led the architecture behind a multi agent AI platform from 0 to 500K+ MAU and 1.6M+ generated stories. I ship production AI systems solo and scale them with small teams. Two bootstrapped AI SaaS products to paying customers in parallel while employed full-time. Frontend foundation, fullstack ownership, currently leading multi-agent AI architecture at scale. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I'M BUILDING NOW Story.com — Founding Engineer (Jan 2025 – Present) Founding Engineer at seed-funded AI video startup. Led architecture for: • 8 agent LangGraph orchestration system powering generation for 500K+ MAU and 1.6M+ stories — conditional routing, HITL checkpoints, persistent Postgres state, per-step retry. • Timeline-based AI video rendering pipeline in Remotion with frame-accurate re-renders and WebSocket-streamed progress events — cut user drop-off 30–40% on long AI workflows. • Sequenced image-generation queue eliminating cross-scene character drift, cutting re-generation requests 35–40% across 1.6M+ stories. • Migrated Next.js Pages → App Router, drove Core Web Vitals from red to green (LCP 16s → 2.4s, accessibility 68 → 100 WCAG AA). • Instrumented LangSmith observability across all agent stages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I'VE SHIPPED • Story.com — 0 → 500K+ MAU, 1.6M+ stories generated. Founding engineer. • WIN Home Inspection — Led platform rebuild. 274% growth in form submissions. Page load 14s → 1.09s (92%). 46.7% organic traffic growth to 242K monthly visits. • Keywordly.ai — Bootstrapped AI SEO SaaS to 6,000+ monthly users across $49–$249/month tiers. Sole architect, built end-to-end. • Koba Education — Multi-tenant K-12 SaaS deployed across 10 schools, 2,000+ students, full RBAC. • Glance (InMobi) — Web SDKs for Glance TV on Samsung Smart TVs, serving tens of millions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STACK AI / LLMs: LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith, OpenAI, Gemini, Multi-Agent Orchestration, RAG, pgvector, FastAPI, Prompt Engineering Backend: Python, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, PostgreSQL, Prisma, WebSockets, Docker Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Redux, Zustand, Tailwind, D3.js, Canvas API, Remotion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR Founding engineer or staff IC roles at AI-native startups. Open to remote globally from India. Open to relocation for the right opportunity (EU preferred — Germany / Luxembourg). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DMs open. Email: vermamaanil97@gmail.com Portfolio: maanilverma.netlify.app GitHub: github.com/MaanilVerma

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Fullstack Engineer with expertise in AI-driven solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 3 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Next.js
Ai Agents
Web Performance
Ai
Frontend Development
Fullstack Development
Saas

Career Highlights

Led architecture for a multi-agent AI platform with 500K+ MAU.
Achieved 274% growth in form submissions at WIN Home Inspection.
Developed an AI-powered SEO content platform from scratch.

Work Experience

Story.com

Founding Engineer (1 yr 4 mos)

Founding Engineer (3 mos)

WIN Home Inspection

Frontend Engineer - II (9 mos)

Frontend Engineer (1 yr 4 mos)

Keywordly

Founding Fullstack Engineer (1 yr)

Glance

Junior Software Engineer (6 mos)

Koba Education

Founding Frontend Engineer (11 mos)

Maanil Verma

Digital Marketing Specialist (2 yrs 10 mos)

Peblox

Digital Marketing Intern (5 mos)

Education

at MOUNT ABU SCHOOL

Bachelor of Science - BS at Delhi University

Maanil Verma

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India3 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led architecture for a multi-agent AI platform with 500K+ MAU.
Achieved 274% growth in form submissions at WIN Home Inspection.
Developed an AI-powered SEO content platform from scratch.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Fullstack Engineer with expertise in AI-driven solutions.

Contact

maanilv8@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Next.jsAi AgentsWeb PerformanceAiFrontend DevelopmentFullstack DevelopmentSaas

Other Skills

TypeScriptPythonLangChainWebSocketsRemotionOpenAIGoogle GeminiLangGraphPostgreSQLArtificial Intelligence (AI)React.jsSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)JavaScriptReactGraphQL

About

Experience

3 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Story.com

2 roles

Founding Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Story.com is an AI-powered platform for filmmaking, storytelling, and video creation.
Helped build the #1 AI-native storytelling and movie creation platform, reaching 500K+ MAU and 1.6M+ stories generated, with 800K+ in the first 10 months
Built and maintained a scalable frontend architecture using Next.js and TypeScript supporting AI-driven story and video creation workflows.
Designed a timeline-based video rendering pipeline using Remotion, converting structured AI outputs into frame-accurate deterministic video renders.
8 agent LangGraph orchestration system handling generation, review, validation, and refinement stages , with conditional routing, HITL checkpoints, persistent Postgres state, and per-step retry. Chosen over linear chains for stateful multi-agent execution.
Real-time WebSocket progress streaming for long-running AI jobs, significantly improving perceived UX during generation and cutting drop-off 30–40% on 2–3 min workflows.
Sequenced image-generation queue eliminating cross-scene character drift, cutting re-generation requests 35–40% across 1.6M+ stories.
Improved technical SEO and Core Web Vitals scores, increasing page crawlability and reducing load times across key routes.
Instrumented LangSmith observability across all agent stages, tracing per-stage latency to resolve recurring generation regressions
Stack: Next.js · TypeScript · Python · LangChain · WebSockets · Remotion · OpenAI · Google Gemini

Next.jsTypeScriptPythonLangChainWebSocketsRemotion+3

Founding Engineer

Sep 2024 – Dec 2024 · 3 mos · Remote

Migrated platform from Next.js Pages Router → App Router enabling server-side streaming. Drove Core Web Vitals from red to green: LCP 16s → 2.4s, FCP → 0.5s, CLS → 0, accessibility 68 → 100 WCAG AA.
Optimized application performance and technical SEO, turning key health metrics from red to green.
Reduced load time from 16 seconds to 2.5 seconds, significantly improving speed and user experience.
Developed AI story creation features, contributing to product innovation.

Next.jsArtificial Intelligence (AI)React.jsTypeScriptSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Web Performance+2

Win home inspection

2 roles

Frontend Engineer - II

Apr 2024 – Jan 2025 · 9 mos · Remote

WIN Home Inspection is the #1 ranked home inspection services company in the United States.
Led frontend rebuild of the core web platform, reducing load times from 14s → 1.09s (92% improvement).
Architected End-to-end Inspection Booking Engine with Next.js and GraphQL, with concurrent-safe atomic booking creation handling scheduling, availability, and confirmation flows.
Geospatial nearest inspector search API in Python serving 242K monthly visits at sub-100ms.
Achieved measurable business outcomes through frontend and SEO improvements:
274% increase in form submissions (1,130 → 4,231)
66.9% growth in inspection order value
46.7% increase in organic search traffic (reaching 242K monthly visits)
Bounce rate reduced from 80% → 51% (36% improvement)
Average session duration up 274% to 5 mins 18 secs
Stack: Next.js · React · TypeScript · Python · GraphQL · Strapi · Redux · AWS

Next.jsReactTypeScriptPythonGraphQLStrapi+4

Frontend Engineer

Dec 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Mocha (JavaScript Framework)Back-End Web DevelopmentNext.jsServer SideReact.jsweb3.js+42

Keywordly

Founding Fullstack Engineer

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Keywordly.ai is an AI-powered SEO content workflow platform that helps teams find high-impact keywords and generate SEO-optimized content at scale.
Built the product end to end as the founding engineer — from idea to production:
Designed and implemented the full frontend using Next.js and TypeScript, including complex data visualizations (hierarchical tree and radial tree graphs using D3.js).
Built all backend APIs and core business logic from scratch using Node.js.
Implemented authentication, subscription management, pricing tiers, and a credit-based feature access system.
Developed AI-powered content generation workflows using OpenAI APIs with backend-enforced rate limiting and usage controls.
Built advanced table UI with sorting, filtering, pagination, and real-time search across large datasets.
Stack: Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · OpenAI API · D3.js · PostgreSQL · Prisma · Tailwind CSS

Next.jsReact.jsTypeScriptMongoDBAmazon Web Services (AWS)PostgreSQL+3

Glance

Junior Software Engineer

Apr 2022 – Oct 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Glance is an AI-driven content platform delivering personalized experiences on smartphone lock screens and Samsung Smart TVs.
Contributed to the GlanceTV app shipped on Samsung Smart TVs (Tizen platform), reaching millions of users globally.
Built a QR-code-based interaction system allowing TV viewers to interact with live content from their mobile devices — a novel cross-device UX pattern.
Achieved 60 FPS Canvas-based emoji animations with an 8.3ms average load time using the Canvas API.
Implemented frontend for live streaming experiences supporting Unicast, Multicast, and Tricast broadcast modes.
Optimized comment ingestion using batching and throttling strategies to reduce backend load at scale.
Maintained UI component consistency using Storybook; wrote unit tests with Jest for all components.
Stack: React.js · Next.js · TypeScript · SASS · Canvas API · Storybook · Jest · Redux · AWS

React.jsNext.jsTypeScriptSASSCanvas APIStorybook+4

Koba education

Founding Frontend Engineer

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 · 11 mos · Delhi, India · Remote

Built multi-tenant K-12 education platform with AI-generated assessments deployed across 10 schools.
Architected SaaS serving 2,000+ students across 10 schools with full RBAC data isolation across 4 roles (student, teacher, parent, admin).
Shipped exercise engine with AI-generated questions, filterable question bank by difficulty/topic/chapter, and class-level assignment targeting.
Real-time dashboards in D3.js across all roles, gauge, line, and pie charts for proficiency, attendance, and assignment metrics.
Reduced application load time 40% through rendering and bundle optimizations on Next.js / TypeScript / Node.js stack deployed on DigitalOcean.
Implemented structured error handling and monitoring to improve platform stability.
Stack: Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · D3.js · DigitalOcean

Next.jsReact.jsFrontend DevelopmentSaaS