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title: "Musheer Ahamed - Lead Software Engineer in Chennai | Tal"
description: "Meet Musheer Ahamed, Software Engineer based in Chennai. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github."
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# Musheer Ahamed on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer

## About

I have developed many large scale public facing websites and am therefore well aware of the limitations and advantages of different approaches to application development; a skill that I believe is of paramount importance\.

## Location

Chennai

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Freshworks, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, Nov 2021 \- Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Chennai, As a Software Engineer at Microsoft \(Chennai\), I contributed to enhancing scalability, security, and compliance features for Viva Goals, a key enterprise platform: \- Contributed to migrating core services to Azure Kubernetes Service \(AKS\), improving application scalability and resilience\. \- Developed a user\-friendly Settings Service to enable seamless application configuration and improve end\-user experience\. \- Implemented a comprehensive Audit Logging system to track 10M\+ user activities, strengthening compliance and monitoring capabilities\.

Senior Software Engineer at Ally, Aug 2019 \- Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Ally is a B2B SaaS startup\. We enable teams to focus, align and achieve goals, with strong employee engagement\. Our goal management solution is incredibly easy to use and supports the popular OKR framework used by organizations including Google and LinkedIn\. Ally is embedded in daily workflow of users through rich Slack integration, and also can be accessed from web and mobile\. It provides intelligent insights to identify and address goals that might be at risk, before it is too late\. Launched in April 2018, it has received highly positive customer feedback and is used by many businesses including Slack and Others

Software Development Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Oct 2017 \- Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Greater Chennai Area

Member Technical Staff at Zoho Corporation, Feb 2016 \- Oct 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos, Greater Chennai Area

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, College of Engineering, Guindy

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/Musheer\-Ahamed\-R

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