Meraj Ahmad
@merajahmad
Senior software engineer building scalable, low-latency distributed systems for cloud-native financial platforms.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a seasoned senior software engineer with 6.5+ years building high-throughput, low-latency distributed applications, focused on cloud-native banking and operations platforms. I have led greenfield onboarding engines, migrated critical workflows to more reliable orchestration, and delivered AI-powered automation to reduce manual verification work.
My background includes designing event-driven systems at scale, optimizing performance and costs, mentoring engineers, and owning end-to-end domain features such as CDR and KYC/KYB. I consistently drive operational efficiency and resilient architectures while collaborating closely with product and business stakeholders.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
Constantinople
Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Spearheaded greenfield development of KYC/KYB onboarding engines and built AI-driven trust document extraction, improving customer experience and reducing manual verification; migrated workflows to Temporal and delivered a 10x multitenant CDR integration.
Engineered a low-latency, high-throughput event-based messaging platform handling 100M messages daily and implemented rate limiting and DB optimizations that reduced third-party costs by 25% and improved query performance by 20%.
Software Engineer
Cisco
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 8 months)
Led migration of legacy monoliths to microservices and designed RESTful APIs, reducing response times by 20%; tuned SQL and built health monitoring with automated alerting to improve reliability and observability.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science
2015 - 2019
Grade: GPA 8.9/10
Activities and societies: Participated in college coding and debugging contests; recognized for competitive programming achievements.
Completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science with a strong academic record (GPA 8.9/10) between 2015 and 2019.
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Location
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