India

Ayyan Sameer Shaikh

Software Engineer Backend Systems & Distributed Infrastructure

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founding engineer @ grexa-ai

SOFTWARE ENGINEER✦BACKEND SYSTEMS✦PYTHON✦GO✦RUST✦REST APIs✦LLM INFRASTRUCTURE✦DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS✦OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTOR✦SOFTWARE ENGINEER✦BACKEND SYSTEMS✦PYTHON✦GO✦RUST✦REST APIs✦LLM INFRASTRUCTURE✦DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS✦OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTOR✦

Impact

By the numbers

Years shipping production backend systems

Engineering teams shipped for

Merged PRs across public OSS projects

40%

Recurring efficiency & latency gains delivered

About

Backend-focused, systems-minded

Software Engineer with 2+ years building backend services, RESTful/internal APIs, and automation pipelines in Python — with hands-on experience integrating third-party services, optimizing data pipelines, and improving system reliability and latency. Comfortable working with containerized environments, distributed data flows, and LLM-powered systems, currently building in Go and Rust with a strong sense of ownership across globally distributed teams.

profile.json

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  "name": "Ayyan Sameer Shaikh",
  "role": "Backend Engineer",
  "languages": ["Python","Go","Rust"],
  "location": "India",
  "open_source": true
}

Currently building in Go and Rust — shipping backend systems, APIs, and LLM-powered infrastructure that hold up under real load.

Experience

Where I've worked

Founding Engineer

Grexa AI · Mumbai, India

Jun 2025 — Present

→Built and maintained RESTful API integrations and reusable backend content modules in Payload CMS, cutting manual content-update effort by 40% and improving onsite SEO performance by 18%.
→Designed and shipped 10+ responsive, production-grade UIs using reusable Next.js components, standardizing the frontend architecture and reducing development time for new feature pages.
→Collaborated cross-functionally with marketing and SEO teams to translate requirements into scalable technical modules, increasing overall user engagement by 25%.

Software Trainee

MiddlewareHQ · San Francisco, CA (Remote)

Apr 2025 — Jun 2025

→Contributed to backend services in Python for a B2B SaaS engineering-productivity platform, collaborating with senior engineers to improve software integration and lift client satisfaction by 25%.
→Applied scalability techniques to middleware components, improving solution performance by 30% to support growing client load.
→Engineered backend ETL pipelines to compute and validate DORA metrics with 100% accuracy, strengthening data reliability for downstream reporting.
→Built TypeScript integrations across middleware services, improving code maintainability by 40% and cutting debugging time by 50%.

Junior Software Engineer

Acumen Cognitive Engineering · Mumbai, India

Dec 2023 — Jun 2024

→Refactored a production AI chatbot codebase and optimized API call sequencing, cutting response latency by 33% and reducing total code volume by 30% while improving maintainability.
→Integrated third-party RESTful and JSON-based APIs, improving data processing throughput by 25% over six months; used Postman for systematic API testing and debugging.
→Designed and implemented RAG data pipelines using Apache Airflow and Pandas, automating ingestion and transformation workflows and cutting processing time by 40% within three months.
→Worked directly with LLM-backed systems in production, gaining practical exposure to prompt constraints and the challenges of testing and validating non-deterministic model outputs.

Projects