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Mahir Neema

SDE@ MerlinAI | Ex- Allen Digital | IIT Ropar ME’24

Greater Bengaluru Area

2+ years of work experience

Merlin AI Software (YC S24)
Oct 202511 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Designed and owned Crew Management end-to-end, including geolocation tracking, overtime calculation, and leave workflows; implemented workflow-driven subtask automation - Built Project Phase Board with workflows, notifications, and auto scheduling; integrated Twilio and DocuSign for communication and secure document workflows - Scaled core backend APIs with advanced filtering and pagination for high-volume workflows, achieving 80% latency reduction on critical production endpoints using Datadog-driven optimizations -Redesigned API query patterns using MongoDB aggregations and batch fetching, eliminating N+1 issues and reducing page load time from 6s to less than 2s for core workflows - Designed and implemented search indexing with fuzzy query support, enabling typo-tolerant search and improving result relevance; optimized indexing and query execution for better performance - Optimized CRM dashboard using MongoDB aggregation pipelines, reducing CPU usage by 5x, latency from multi-seconds to sub-second, and heap usage; reduced DB calls (7→3) and improved system stability. - Owned production stability and on-call operations, resolving P0 incidents and ensuring system reliability
ALLEN Digital
Jun 20241 yr 4 mosSep 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Enhanced results with provisional results and bilingual solutions PDFs, for different student preferences. -Developed Score Booster APIs with 98%+ unit test coverage and 43%+ integration test coverage -Migrated Several APIs from Central BFF to TAA-BFF, enabling scalability and team-level ownership. -Enhanced Astra test creation tool with new filters (modes, ey validations, subtopics, city/state ranks). -Secured test syllabus access by moving from public → private, creating API with S3 pre-signed URLs, and refactoring test flows. -Automated center-wise student count reports for offline result processing using temporal workflow. -Created V2 of the PastTest API (P95 latency: 550ms → 220ms) needed for Mentorship-Parent Page. -Addressed action items from Operational Review Meetings, resolving high-priority bugs and delivering timely fixes to enhance platform stability and usability.
Zeitgeist IIT Ropar
Dec 20224 mosMar 2023

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

20204 yrs2024

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Headline

SDE@ MerlinAI | Ex- Allen Digital | IIT Ropar ME’24

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Software Engineer at Merlin AI Software (YC S24), Oct 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Designed and owned Crew Management end-to-end, including geolocation tracking, overtime calculation, and leave workflows; implemented workflow-driven subtask automation - Built Project Phase Board with workflows, notifications, and auto scheduling; integrated Twilio and DocuSign for communication and secure document workflows - Scaled core backend APIs with advanced filtering and pagination for high-volume workflows, achieving 80% latency reduction on critical production endpoints using Datadog-driven optimizations -Redesigned API query patterns using MongoDB aggregations and batch fetching, eliminating N+1 issues and reducing page load time from 6s to less than 2s for core workflows - Designed and implemented search indexing with fuzzy query support, enabling typo-tolerant search and improving result relevance; optimized indexing and query execution for better performance - Optimized CRM dashboard using MongoDB aggregation pipelines, reducing CPU usage by 5x, latency from multi-seconds to sub-second, and heap usage; reduced DB calls (7→3) and improved system stability. - Owned production stability and on-call operations, resolving P0 incidents and ensuring system reliability

SDE-1 at ALLEN Digital, Jun 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, -Enhanced results with provisional results and bilingual solutions PDFs, for different student preferences. -Developed Score Booster APIs with 98%+ unit test coverage and 43%+ integration test coverage -Migrated Several APIs from Central BFF to TAA-BFF, enabling scalability and team-level ownership. -Enhanced Astra test creation tool with new filters (modes, ey validations, subtopics, city/state ranks). -Secured test syllabus access by moving from public → private, creating API with S3 pre-signed URLs, and refactoring test flows. -Automated center-wise student count reports for offline result processing using temporal workflow. -Created V2 of the PastTest API (P95 latency: 550ms → 220ms) needed for Mentorship-Parent Page. -Addressed action items from Operational Review Meetings, resolving high-priority bugs and delivering timely fixes to enhance platform stability and usability.

Technical Team Member at Zeitgeist IIT Ropar, Dec 2022 - Mar 2023 · 4 mos

Education

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

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