Shoaib Merchant
Founder at Mecha Systems
Vadodara, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolShoaib Merchant is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building cross-platform systems for retail, e-commerce, analytics, and manufacturing clients. He has led technology consulting and product efforts that produced systems still used by top global companies, and now focuses on Mecha, a startup building specialized computing machines for developers to bridge software and physical-world applications. Previously he co-founded and scaled Actonate, where he combined hands-on engineering with people leadership to grow technical capability and deliver efficient solutions. Trained as a computer scientist at Vellore Institute of Technology, Shoaib brings a rare blend of hardware curiosity and full-stack software expertise, often designing solutions that span from embedded machines to cloud analytics.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
HSc, Science, HSc, Science at Navrachna vidyaniB.Tech, Computer Science Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mecha-org/meta-mecha-imx
Oct 2023 - Jan 2026
Hardware BSP for Mecha Devices with NXP i.MX processors
Contributions:9 reviews, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 3 months
mecha-org/mecha-docs
Jan 2025 - Apr 2026
Open Docs for Mecha Stack
Contributions:30 reviews, 39 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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