---
title: "Sadaf A. - GSoC mentee @ Neutralinojs in New Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Sadaf A., Amazon ML School’25 | Google Upskilling Launchpad’25 | GSoC’24 @Neutralinojs | Final Year CSE Student based in New Delhi. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and hugging face. Explore public work links including leetcode and github."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/sadaf-ahmed/share-image"
---

# Sadaf A\. on Tal

## Headline

Amazon ML School’25 \| Google Upskilling Launchpad’25 \| GSoC’24 @Neutralinojs \| Final Year CSE Student

## About

→ Backend developer with a passion for streamlining systems and saving costs where it counts\. →Love solving C\+\+ challenges on LeetCode—there's always a better way to get things done\. →Experienced across multiple startups, delivering scalable, real\-world solutions that make a difference\. →Enthusiastic about cloud optimization and performance tweaks that boost efficiency\. →A team player at heart, turning complex issues into simple, actionable solutions\.

## Location

New Delhi

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

hugging face

langchain

obsidian

Figma Make

## Work experience

GSoC mentee @ Neutralinojs at Google Summer of Code, May 2024 \- Sep 2024 · 5 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, ◦ Increased test coverage for 6 native APIs by adding over 1,100 lines of code, ensuring robust functionality and reducing potential bugs\. ◦ Contributed 15 commits across 5 pull requests, all successfully merged, demonstrating strong collaborative skills and adherence to project guidelines\.

Back End Developer Intern at FunnelHQ, Feb 2024 \- Apr 2024 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ◦ Developed user data scripts and optimized infrastructure costs by utilizing EC2 Spot Instances, securing up to a 90% discount on compute resources\. ◦ Optimized infrastructure costs by deploying PostgreSQL on EC2 Spot Instances \($0\.0172 per hour\) instead of RDS \($0\.075 per hour\), achieving a cost savings of over 77%\.

Back End Developer Intern at Arakoo\.ai, Nov 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 3 mos, Santa Clara, California, United States, ◦ Migrated the codebase from NestJs to Hono\.js, optimizing for WebAssembly \(Wasm\) compatibility, resulting in a performance increase of approximately 67%\. ◦ Contributed over 40,000 lines of code, ranking among the top 6 contributors\. ◦ Developed a npx command for automated example generation, resulting in users saving an average of 30 minutes per project setup\.

Back End Developer Intern at Seequenze Technologies, Jan 2023 \- Nov 2023 · 11 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, ◦ Performed a 99\.46% reduction in operational expenses by migrating from GitHub Actions \($7\.68 per hour\) to Jenkins hosted on AWS EC2 spot instance \($0\.0416 per hour\)\. ◦ Conducted Apache JMeter performance testing with up to 10,000 requests, identifying scalability improvements\. ◦ Designed and implemented a microservice architecture using AWS SQS, processing up to 3000 messages per second efficiently through batching\.

## Public links

- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/sadaf04
- github: https://github\.com/Sadaf\-A

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