Naved Merchant
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNaved Merchant is a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Lab126 with a decade of experience building operating systems components and large-scale back-end systems. He specializes in Input Method Engines for soft keyboards and internationalization, and recently led the development of Writing Assist for Amazon tablets. His background spans high-throughput image and video APIs and experimental computer vision pipelines from his time at Yahoo, plus earlier embedded and ATM software work, reflecting a strong systems-to-application breadth. Based in San Francisco, he combines rigorous academic training (MS, University at Buffalo) with pragmatic product delivery, and maintains a playful curiosity about emerging local AI tooling.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 3.79, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 3.79 at Mumbai University MumbaiMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.72, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.72 at University at BuffaloR. D. National College
English
Github Skills (15)
messenger9
socket-io9
chat9
user-experience8
code-editor8
ai-agent8
skpm6
sketch-plugin6
sketch6
hardware6
plugin5
java4
manager3
webpack3
ai1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
navedmerchant/navedmerchant.github.io
Feb 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
navedmerchant/MyDeviceAI
May 2025 - Mar 2026
A cross platform App that gives you the best UX to run models locally or remotely on your own hardware
Contributions:4 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
hardwareuser-experience
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