John Mikhail

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AI Consultant & Freelance Product Builder

I build AI products end-to-end — agents, chatbots, and intelligent features that go all the way to production. Backend, frontend, infrastructure: the full package. MIT-trained, forged at Google and Mixpanel, now building full-time.


Career

Education

MIT MIT

2013 — 2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Products

Experimental

Fine Tuned WhatsApp Bot

Fine-tuned a local language model on years of personal WhatsApp history, then let it auto-reply to friends. It fooled a few — until things got spicy. Key lesson: don't overtrain on conversations with your girlfriend.

WhatsApp

Voice of Customer Analytics

Analyzes customer feedback at scale across Reddit, the App Store, and other sources. Surfaces complaint topics using both unsupervised clustering and LLM-based semantic grouping — no predefined categories needed.

Check it out ↗ Wispr Flow

Shopify Chat Agent

Catalog-aware chat agent for Shopify stores using a hybrid retrieval approach: vector embeddings for semantic search combined with LLM-generated SQL for structured queries. Outperformed a leading competitor in product surfacing accuracy.

Shopify

Consulting

Infrastructure & Systems

High-throughput data pipelines, messaging systems, and storage engines. Experience scaling to billions of events per day.

Backend · Distributed Systems

Product Development

Full-stack product builds from concept to launch. Chrome extensions, web apps, and developer tools.

Product · Engineering

Achievements

Awards

John at work
Work 2018 — present
2024

Platform Reliability Award

Mixpanel

2020

Feats of Engineering

Google


John at MIT
University MIT · 2013 — 2017
2017

1st Place — BattleCode

MIT Division

YouTube
2016

1st Place — VR Hackathon

MIT Media Lab · Entertainment

YouTube
2015

Audience Choice Award

iOS Game Dev · MIT

YouTube
2014

1st Place — 2.007

Design & Manufacturing · MIT

2014

1st Place — MASLAB

Mobile Autonomous Systems · MIT

YouTube
2013

1st Place — 6.270

Autonomous Robot Design · MIT

The Tech

John in high school
High School 2009 — 2013
2011

2nd Place

World Robotics Olympiad

YouTube

John in middle school
Middle School ~2009
2009

Gold Medal

Egyptian Olympiad of Informatics