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Nihal Ahamed
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- ASoftware Development Engineer III (Tech Lead)ApiwizJan 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)• Led a development team and acted as product owner for the API orchestration platform, driving architecture decisions, prioritising roadmap execution, and working closely with customers across APAC and the Middle East to gather requirements, ensure successful delivery, and improve product adoption. • Optimized graph layout algorithm using Web Workers, reducing render-blocking time 8x (800ms→100ms) for large-scale workflows. • Developed and published an open-source NPM package for Swagger documentation using Rollup, enabling efficient bundling and reuse of API specifications. (apiwiz-catalog-library) • Proactively identified and remediated security vulnerabilities, implementing OWASP best practices, including CSRF protection, XSS mitigation
- ASoftware Development Engineer IIApiwizJan 2024 - Dec 2024 (1 year)• Architected and built a low-code workflow automation platform from the ground up in React, Reactflow, Redux and PostCSS, enabling API orchestration across REST, GraphQL, and SOAP via a unified endpoint, driving ~$100K ARR revenue per customer in the APAC region • Collaborated with cross-functional design and product teams to modernise the design system and implemented Storybook for enhanced component documentation and UI consistency. • Implemented additional features such as external database connections, JSON-XML transformations, conditional flows, and looping mechanisms, enabling automation of complex workflows. • Re-architected backend: optimised DB queries (3.5x throughput: 200→700 TPS), reduced resource footprint to 500m cores/800MB
- ASoftware Development Engineer IApiwizJun 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 7 months)• Built pixel-perfect, responsive REST API client using React, Redux, and PostCSS, delivering a seamless user experience for real-time endpoint testing and automated Swagger generation. • Migrated a production-grade application from Vue.js to React, enhancing performance and scalability. • Developed advanced interfaces, including a custom Swagger Editor and GraphQL schema visualiser, and extended the platform to native desktop applications using Electron, improving API documentation accuracy and schema management efficiency for Windows and Mac users. • Implemented Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and contributed to feature enhancements, performance optimisations, and stability improvements across the platform.
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Bachelor of Engineering – CSEAnnamalai UniversityAug 2018 - May 2022 (3 years 10 months)Developed a Node.js media processing library leveraging FFmpeg to generate encrypted HLS streams for secure and scalable video delivery
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- cclaude-guardianMar 2026 - Apr 2026 (2 months)• Built a lightweight background daemon in Rust that intercepts Claude Code hooks to detect and mask secrets - API keys, bearer tokens, AWS credentials, and IP addresses – before requests reach Anthropic servers • Leveraged Rust for high-performance hook interception and payload masking, TypeScript for building a real-time monitoring dashboard, and SQLite for persistent local logging of intercepted events and redacted payloads
- CChess PlatformJan 2026 - Feb 2026 (2 months)• Built a real-time PvP chess platform with low-latency gameplay using Rust-based WebSocket service and leveraged Next.js SSR and ISR for optimised rendering and improved initial load performance • Integrated LLM-driven post-game analysis using an RAG pipeline to identify positional mistakes and generate actionable insights • Leveraged WebAssembly for performance-critical components to improve client-side execution