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title: "Mahir Neema - Software Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Mahir Neema, SDE@ MerlinAI | Ex- Allen Digital | IIT Ropar ME’24 based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity and cursor."
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# Mahir Neema on Tal

## Headline

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

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

antigravity

cursor

## 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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