NIHAL MOHAMMAD

Software Engineer

Sangareddy, Telangana, India

Junior Software Engineer at Way2News. Competitive programmer — Specialist on Codeforces, Guardian on LeetCode. Learning Go, interested in backend internals, databases, and distributed systems.

Open to software development roles and freelance work.

resume

“No one knows what the outcome will be. So, trust yourself, or trust the people willing to put their lives on the line for you. Either way, there is no guarantee. I do not know which way is better. I never have. Choose whatever you will regret the least”

— Levi AckermanAttack on Titan

skills

using

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
Tailwind
Bun
MongoDB
Redis
PostgreSQL
Docker

exploring

Go
Distributed Systems
Databases
Backend Internals

experience

jun 2025 — present
Way2Newscurrent
Junior Software Engineer
Building scalable web applications and APIs
feb — may 2025
Way2News
Trainee Software Developer
Learning and contributing to software development projects

projects

Backplane
Curated engineering blogs — backend, distributed systems & infra. 100 companies across 10 tiers, filterable and searchable.
Astro · curated · engineering

competitive programming

LeetCode@mdnihal05Guardian ·2080

Codeforces@md_nihalSpecialist ·1474

Codechef@md_nihal3★ ·1776

blogs

LCA and Binary Lifting

How to jump up a tree in powers of two — kth ancestors, lowest common ancestors, and path distances, all in O(log n) per query.

Jun 12, 2026