Senior Software Engineer · Bengaluru

I build systems
that scale &
interfaces that last.

Building production software — from low-latency distributed backends to carefully-made interfaces on top of them. I care about clarity, durability, and code that reads like it was meant to be there.

— CurrentlyBuilding AI infrastructure
— Based inBengaluru GMT+5:30
— Experience3+ years production
— StackTypeScript, Go, Python
§ 01 — Selected Work

Five projects, chosen for what they taught me.

01
PennyWise AIPrivacy-first SMS expense tracker · Android
2024
02
QueryMindDesktop database IDE · NL-to-SQL
2023
03
ZynthApp suite with unified auth
2024
04
Guardian PlatformInfrastructure & service discovery
2023
05
HushShareZero-knowledge secret sharing
2022
§ 02 — Experience

Production engineering, in reverse chronology.

Sep 2023 — Present
Senior Software Engineer at Mira
Pioneered distributed LLM routing platform with FastAPI, Fastify, and Go — increasing request volume handled by 5×. Built and scaled Klok to 300,000+ registered users with 1,000+ concurrent daily users.
Remote · Bengaluru
Jan 2023 — Jul 2023
Founding Engineer at Agentic Labs
Spearheaded secure multi-tenant architecture with zero data breaches. Engineered SDXL model training workflow for fine-tuned image generation from user photos.
Remote
Sep 2021 — Jan 2022
Full Stack Intern at StaderLabs
Built DeFi staking dashboard handling $2M+ TVL with Next.js and Web3 integrations. Developed smart contract interaction layer using TerraJS for the Terra blockchain ecosystem.
Remote
§ 03 — About

Engineer first — but I like the seams where craft shows.

I think about software the way a systems architect thinks about invariants. The obvious part is what ships; the real work is what holds when everything else fails.

Most of what I do is un-glamorous: careful boundaries between services, boring names for useful abstractions, paying down the debt that accumulates when no one's looking. I've found that the teams I like best are the ones where that work is valued.

I ship open-source projects I actually use, care deeply about observability, and believe that distributed systems are fundamentally a design problem before they're a technical one.

Outside of work: building mobile apps, contributing to open source, and slowly understanding what "boring technology" means by sometimes picking the wrong things first.

NowLive
BuildingAI routing infrastructure
ReadingDesigning Data-Intensive Apps
LearningDistributed systems design
WritingNotes on system design
Principles
01Boring is a feature
02Make it observable first
03Schemas over trust
04Delete, don't deprecate
§ 04 — Writing

A small collection of opinions, mostly.

§ 05 — Contact

Let's make something that lasts.

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hi@sarimahmed.net
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