Manav Mendiratta
Senior engineer at Gemini. I own the systems new users hit first.
Onboarding, auth, prediction markets. Also: golf, great dinners, poolside-markets.com.
I care about the full lifecycle — design, implementation, rollout, and the data that tells you whether it worked. From first-time user onboarding to cross-platform auth to prediction market funnels, I've shipped it end-to-end and owned what happened after.
Off the clock: golf, great dinners, and shipping vibe-coded side projects — currently running a prediction pool and a book review site that actually made it to production.
Gemini Space Station
New York, NY (Remote)
Onboarding · Prediction Markets · Authentication & Recovery · Identity Verification · Credit Card
- —Own web and mobile onboarding for all new users — a conversion-critical surface directly tied to customer acquisition. Shipped third-party identity verification end-to-end with phased rollout to 100% of US users.
- —Led cross-platform authentication enabling seamless sign-in across devices and account recovery — coordinating backend, mobile, and web.
- —Designed and drove the onboarding funnel for a new prediction markets product from scratch — state machines, API hooks, navigation flows.
- —Built monitoring infrastructure across Datadog and Mixpanel for onboarding, identity verification, and auth rollouts.
- —Authored technical design documents defining client-side state management, API contracts, and rollout strategies before implementation began.
Target Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
- —Led development of a React/TypeScript supply chain application serving 4,000+ users from warehouse to executive level, improving operational efficiency by 40% and earning C-Suite recognition.
- —Part of Target's Technology Leadership Program — a rotational engineering track. First rotation on a frontend React/TypeScript team building a supply chain application to track trailers within Target's network.
- —Second rotation on the Stores Inventory team, working with Java, Kotlin, and Kafka to handle inventory data across every store in the US.
- —Built real-time inventory tracking with Kafka consumers, interactive analytics dashboards, and Grafana telemetry for production health monitoring.
- —Interned on Target's Prepaid Services Team, engineering APIs with third-party vendors for the activation of prepaid video game cards. The microservice integrated with POS to deliver fast, secure, and accurate activations.
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