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title: "Muhammed Ajmal M - Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Muhammed Ajmal M, Software Engineer @ Zenskar based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code and claude."
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# Muhammed Ajmal M on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer @ Zenskar

## About

Software engineer focused on building deep technical competence through first\-principles understanding of computer systems\. My work spans backend engineering, data engineering, and cloud systems, with experience primarily in Python and full\-stack development\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Zenskar, Jul 2026 \- Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer 2 at CredHive, Jan 2026 \- Jul 2026 · 7 mos, • Architected Redis\-based distributed leader election with TTL and lock renewal to coordinate scheduled jobs across a horizontally scaled cluster, ensuring single execution while tolerating node crashes and failover • Owned deployment and rollout strategy for backend services, coordinating staged releases, rollbacks, and production verification across multiple environments • Refactored core services to improve service boundaries and reduce coupling using design patterns, improving long\-term maintainability across modules • On\-call owner for critical backend services, resolved production incidents, data inconsistencies, and performance regressions, including off\-hours issue resolution

Software Engineer 1 \(Founding Team\) at CredHive, Aug 2024 \- Jan 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos, • Early founding engineer \(7th hire\), owning backend systems from initial design through production scale in a microservices, distributed backend environment • Built and operated a Postgres → Elasticsearch CDC pipeline indexing 4M\+ records, enabling low\-latency search and significantly improving query performance and data accessibility • Designed distributed scraping and ingestion pipelines orchestrating 50\+ concurrent workers, reliably processing 70M\+ records with retries, backpressure, and real\-time failure recovery • Achieved up to 5× performance improvements across backend services through caching, query indexing, thread pools, parallel parsing, and S3 I/O tuning, reducing end\-to\-end processing from 5 minutes to 1 minute • Diagnosed and resolved complex production issues involving concurrency, race conditions, and partial failures across distributed services • Led deployment and operations for 20\+ containerized backend services using AWS ECS, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Secrets Manager, and CDK, ensuring secure, repeatable, and high\-availability releases • Ensured data correctness and system reliability via transactional guarantees, audit logging, backward\-compatible schema migrations, monitoring, and role\-based authentication with AWS Cognito • Delivered advanced reporting systems, including real\-time Excel/PDF generation, schema\-templated reports, financial cleaning pipelines, and QA tooling • Implemented monitoring system to track domain\-specific data changes over time, ensuring early detection of anomalies and financial risk • Developed shared internal Python Library \(Pydantic\-typed, 95%\+ test coverage, published to CodeArtifact\), reusable parsers, modular config, domain models and common aws utilities • Contributed to team growth and technical bar\-raising by conducting 10\+ engineering interviews, assessing candidates on system design, architecture, API design, and Python fundamentals

Freelance Web Developer at Self\-Employed, Apr 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 3 mos, Kerala, India, • Built a mobile app in React Native for Tabadul books Kuwait\. Independantly architectured, designed and developed the whole application • Independently designed, developed, and maintained a diverse range of projects, including e\-commerce stores, landing pages, and association websites\. Proficiently handled both frontend and backend development using React and Express\.js

Open Source Contributor at Hoppscotch, Dec 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 2 mos, Kerala, India, • Contributed to Hoppscotch, a lightweight API development suite, using Vue\.js and Typescript • Closed 5 pull requests, contributing actively to the project's development and maintenance • Added 2 features to the product and fixed various bugs within the application

Frontend Developer at Lamsta, May 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 2 mos, Kerala, India, • Contributed to "Events Radar" a web software product, utilizing TypeScript and Next\.js to build dynamic frontend components and pages\. • Collaborated effectively within a team, resulting in impactful enhancements to the product's quality and functionality\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

Higher Secondary, Computer Science, GHSS Cherpulassery

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