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.


Products

AI Experiments

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

Achievements

Awards

John at work
Work
2025

Product Excellence Award - Mixpanel

For my contribution to warehouse mirroring

2024

Platform Reliability Award - Mixpanel

For making data persistence layer safer

2020

Feats of Engineering - Google

For adding message ordering gurantees to Pubsub


John at MIT
University
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
2011

2nd Place — World Robotics Olympiad

Soccer category

YouTube

John in middle school
Middle School
2009

Gold Medal — Egyptian Olympiad of Informatics

Nation-wide algorithm competition