I care about the systems that stay fast under load.
I'm Zaid, a software engineer based in Hyderabad. I spend most of my time on the unglamorous parts of software that quietly decide whether a product feels good: latency, throughput, and what a single query really costs at scale. If something can be faster, I want to know why it isn't.
I've been building production systems for a couple of years now, mostly around search infrastructure, AI pipelines, and high-throughput APIs. The thread through all of it is the same: take something slow or manual, find where the time actually goes, and make it disappear. B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering.
I'm a software engineer at Vujis, working on search and AI features that run against real production load. On the side I'm building Discovry, an AI-first tool that automates Google Business Profile management for agencies: posts, review replies, rank tracking, and profile health across every client location. It's where I get to own the whole stack and ship on my own terms.
I'm happiest when I can measure the thing I'm improving. I reach for profiling before intuition, keep deterministic code around the parts that genuinely need judgment, and care a lot about abstractions someone else can still read six months later. I'd rather ship a narrow thing that works than a broad thing that mostly does.
When I'm not building, I'm usually drawn to the same things in different forms: astronomy, design, and open source. I maintain react-terminal, a small Bash-like terminal component for React. The one running on the home page is my own library. Tinkering in public is half the fun.