I'm Mihir Okte, a software engineer at Amazon in Bengaluru. I work on the systems that take and refund orders for Amazon's Global Stores.
I studied Mathematics and Computing at IIT Delhi, class of 2023. My final-year project was a Rubik's cube solver; the cube is still on the shelf behind me.
Outside work I play football most weeks, usually in midfield, and FIFA on the PS5 when I can't get to a pitch. I cook on weeknights, slow dishes, with spice.
accolades
KVPY 2018, All India Rank 233. A national science scholarship exam run by the Department of Science and Technology.
NTSE 2017 scholar. A top-1000 rank in the national talent search, out of more than a million candidates.
Amazon
aug 2024 — now
Software Engineer, Global Stores
Moved 19 ordering and refund services onto new infrastructure with no downtime, leading a team of 8 through the ten-month migration.
Connected legacy service logs to diagnosis agents, which cut the time to assess a risky change by 97%.
Ran my org's first release where an AI agent did the engineering end to end, on the system that updates customer orders.
Owned the health of three ordering services and handled 200+ production incidents along the way.
YOptima
jul 2023 — aug 2024
Founding Engineer, CEO Office
Built nYO, a self-serve platform for YouTube and DV360 ad campaigns. Client onboarding went from days to minutes.
Rebuilt overspend alerting on real-time signals: alerts in 10 minutes instead of 2 hours.
Fine-tuned Llama-2 on channel metadata to match ads to inventory. Live placement variance dropped 40%.
E-Ring
jun — jul 2022
Software Engineer Intern (PPO)
Restructured the database behind a US property-tax appraisal system. Queries got 30% faster.
Early startups
2020 — 2023
Materate · Pricing · StoryProcess
Built Materate's first dashboards and web app, and a tool for StoryProcess that turned a spoken pitch into a short animation.
Talk Mode
2026
An Alexa skill that lets me talk to an AI model through the Echo in my room. I say "Alexa, start talk mode", then ask anything in my own words and keep asking follow-ups until I say stop. It can look things up on the web and add to my task list, and an average question costs less than a tenth of a cent.
A Mac app I use to study for interviews. It has courses, drills and coding problems, and it checks my answers on the laptop itself, with no account and no internet needed.
A personal assistant that lives inside Telegram. It runs on a server, so it keeps working when my phone has no signal. I use it every day.
Rubik's cube solver
b.tech thesis
Treats the cube as a maths object, turns each move into a step on a map, and searches for the shortest route to solved. Any scramble in under two seconds.
Speech-to-animation
storyprocess
Speak a pitch into a microphone and get a short animated video back. Built so a small team could make many pitches quickly.
