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title: "Syed Amjad Ali - Technical Lead in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Syed Amjad Ali, Building Voice AI at Nurix | Previously: Razorpay, Akamai based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity and codex. Explore public work links including github."
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# Syed Amjad Ali on Tal

## Headline

Building Voice AI at Nurix \| Previously: Razorpay, Akamai

## About

Lead Software Engineer with 8\+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems\. I’m deeply hands\-on with backend architecture and APIs, but also enjoy jumping into DevOps, frontend, or even UI design when needed\. I like finding smart, simple solutions to tough problems – and I'm the kind of person who’ll gladly spend an evening automating a five\-minute task \(because why not?\)\. Always curious, always learning\. Hacker at heart\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

## Work experience

Technical Lead at Nurix, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led the voice agents platform team, building and scaling core infrastruc\- ture for AI\-powered voice agents\. • Set up observability for platform services with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards and alerting; implemented structured JSON logging for faster production debugging\. • Led scalability and infra efforts including Kubernetes rollout across US and India, scheduled scaling for predictable traffic, and capacity planning for client go\-lives\. • Owned a major client’s custom SIP telephony integration end\-to\-end; de\- signed inbound call routing for safe experimentation and gradual agent rollouts\. • Established on\-call processes to track and resolve production issues; inte\- grated noise cancellation and LLM prewarming to improve voice quality and reduce latency\.

Lead Software Development Engineer at Razorpay, Nov 2024 \- Apr 2025 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Software Engineer at Razorpay, Oct 2024 \- Mar 2025 · 6 mos, Led a team of 3\-4 engineers building product and platform microservices in Golang; drove projects end\-to\-end from system design to production support\. Conducted technical interviews for SDE 2, SDE 1 and internship positions\.

Senior Software Engineer at Razorpay, Oct 2021 \- Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Built and maintained multiple product\-oriented as well as platform\-oriented microservices using Golang\. • Built a system to efficiently manage and query hierarchical data with Postgres, the ltree extension, and GiST indexes, to be used in an authz service\. • Led several hero projects, being involved in all stages from requirements gathering, system design, low\-level design to implementation, testing, and post\-production support\. • Worked on Connected Banking integrations with multiple banks: ICICI, RBL, Axis, and Yes Bank\. • Stewarded observability overhaul for microservices: metrics and alerting on Prometheus/Grafana stack and distributed tracing on OpenTelemetry/HyperTrace\. • Been part of the on\-call roster and led Operational Excellence activities to regularly review on\-call performance and identify and fix recurring issues\. • Developed internal tooling to automate the generation of weekly on\-call reports from different sources consisting of production tickets, alerts, and availability metrics\. • Debugged and solved org\-wide DNS issues in a backend monolith service, reducing failed DNS queries/month from 100k to 0\. • Contributed to investigations and fixes for detecting and blocking fraudulent activity on the platform\. • Regularly conducted technical interviews for internship, SDE1, and SDE2 positions\. • Tech: Golang, Kubernetes, gRPC, SQS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis / ElastiCache, HyperTrace\.

Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, Apr 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Developed backend microservices and REST APIs for Test Center\. • Spearheaded the development of Test Center CLI\. • Built an intercepting proxy on top of Mitmproxy to capture and manipulate HTTP traffic, controlled via an HTTP API\. • Contributed to UI codebase to build an interactive condition expression builder\. • Tech: Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, Python, Mitmproxy, Golang, Docker

Software Engineer II at Akamai Technologies, Apr 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed backend microservices and REST APIs for Test Center\. • Improved microservice communications resulting in reduced time spent by developers and increased reliability\. • Contributed to the design and architecture of Test Center 2\.0, and designed and implemented routing for a microservice orchestration service\. • Worked on data analysis and visualizations to get insights on test run performance and identify bottlenecks\. • Investigated on and improved performance of DB operations\. • Built an internal SPA to get a birds eye view and timeline of a test run, helping the dev and support teams immensely in debugging wayward test runs\. • Tech: Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, Python, Jupyter Notebook, TypeScript, React, Golang, Docker

Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, Jul 2017 \- Mar 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed backend microservices and REST APIs for Test Center\. • Contributed to frontend engineering for a few months\. • Been instrumental in adding IPv6 support to Test Center and setting up the required cloud infrastructure\. • Deep dived into, investigated and fixed several production issues\. • Made significant contributions to API design and documentation\. • Developed several internal tools to automate tasks and improve developer productivity\. • Tech: Java, Jersey, Spring MVC, Oracle, Apache Cassandra, Docker, JavaScript, Python, AWS

Software Engineering Intern at Akamai Technologies, Jan 2017 \- Apr 2017 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Worked on a REST web service using the modern Java enterprise stack\. • Tech: Java, Jersey, Hibernate

Software Engineering Intern at Zillionminds Technologies, Sep 2015 \- Jul 2016 · 11 mos, Bangalore, India, • Worked on building the prototype for a service aggregator\. • Designed and built the backend REST APIs\. • Built a mobile app using NativeScript framework\. • Tech: Python, Django, NativeScript, JavaScript, CSS, Google Maps SDK

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Information Science, PES University

Delhi Public School \(DPS\)

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/amjd

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