Mariam Nazia Merchant

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Director of Engineering, BrowserStack - VS Code extensions · TypeScript · compilers

BrowserStack
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
NIT Warangal
English, Hindi, Telugu
Co-founderAdvising
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Overview

Currently at BrowserStack, where I lead developer tools with a team of 49. Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 23% in two quarters. Before that: Bosch and BigBasket. Cyclist - trying to do a century this year.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Advice on developer tools
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on Rust decisions
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Generic networking requests

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Skills
compilersRustTypeScriptVS Code extensionsCLI designKafka
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for carbon accounting for solar installers

The idea
Carbon accounting for solar installers
Stage
Prototype
I bring
15 years in developer tools
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Hyderabad or remote

I bring 24 years of developer tools (currently BrowserStack). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Hyderabad, Indiacli designrustvs code extensions
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for career switchers into engineering: developer tools and Kafka

Topics
developer tools, compilers, VS Code extensions
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

24 years of developer tools. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Hyderabad, Indiacli designtypescriptcompilers
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2024 - Present
    BrowserStack · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 531ms to 79ms.
    • Moved 69% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    May 2023 - Dec 2024
    Bosch · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 15 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
  3. Software Engineer
    Dec 2020 - May 2023
    BigBasket · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 2.
    • Moved 72% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
    Tech Mahindra · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Grew the developer experience team from 3 to 21 engineers.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
    PwC · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Backed 46 founders at pre-seed and seed.

Projects

Write-up: developer tools in practice
2023

A long-form guide to developer tools for people starting out.

Side project: a habit tracker
2022

Built with CLI design and TypeScript. 3386 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. NIT Warangal
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    1998 - 2002

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