Hey, I'm Riyaz,

a Father, Fitness Lover, Programmer, and Leader

I bring 12+ years of software development experience to my role as Senior Engineering Manager at Plobal Apps, a top platform for e-commerce mobile and web app creation. Leading a skilled team, we use Kotlin, Swift, and web tech to deliver scalable solutions. Formerly at Swiggy, I managed Swiggy Dineout and developed Swiggy Vendor apps, empowering restaurants. Proficient in Android, iOS, React Native, React JS, Node JS, and web apps, I'm dedicated to innovation, customer satisfaction, and organizational growth through collaboration and ongoing learning.

Plobal Apps - Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2022 — Present

Plobal enables Shopify stores to build high converting native apps in minutes and scale installs, engagement and revenue.

  • Revamped operations within the Customer Success Team, elevating stability measures to maintain top-tier Apps' performance at over 99%. Read a concise Medium article on scaling crash analysis through zero-cost automation using the Google Analytics API: Medium Link
  • Achieved a significant 8x reduction in escalations and monthly issues through strategic efforts and process enhancements in Customer Success & Core Platform teams.

Apps Script Looker Studio Project Management Technical Leadership Project Leadership Coaching & Mentoring Process Efficiency Delegation Team Management


Swiggy - Engineering Manager

Nov 2021 — Aug 2022

Swiggy Dineout, one of Swiggy's latest offerings, enriches dining experiences for customers across India while providing unique offers and deals.

  • Core Contributor to Swiggy Dineout app
  • Managed a team of Android, iOS & ReactNative developers

Android iOS React Native Firebase Project Management Technical Leadership Project Leadership Coaching & Mentoring Process Efficiency Delegation Team Management


Swiggy - SDE-2, SDE-3

May 2017 — Oct 2021

Vendor Android & iOS Apps: The app serves as a bridge between restaurants and Swiggy end users for ordering. This ensures that everything runs on technology, making it simpler than ever before to manage a takeaway business.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.swiggy.partnerapp iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/swiggy-owner/id1209732136

  • Introduced FCM to make order relays instant. Which increased relay of orders to vendors within 30 seconds from <70% to 96%
  • Contributed to increase app stability from <80% to ~99% Crash free.
  • Rebuilt the app from scratch in React Native.
  • Revamped order relay & presentation to scale capacity of processing orders from <60 to ~1000 on low end devices
  • Did CI/CD integration using Jenkins and enabled Slack's slash commands to make builds on the go.
  • Connected SonarQube Scanner with Jenkins to keep the quality gate checked
  • Built and owned NewRelic dashboards to monitor and track Tech, Network, Growth & Performance metrics

Android React Native Firebase Fabric & Crashlyitcs Google Analytics Google Tag Manager Branch.io Microsoft CodePush Jenkins Slack's Slash commands NewRelic SonarQube Scanner


NoBroker - Senior Android Developer

August 2015 — April 2017

Provides verified properties with 100% guarantee that you don't end up talking to a broker.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nobroker.app

  • Joined as 2nd member of the Android team, revamped & re-built the Android app.
  • Increased the crash free user base from 86% to 99.3% with the help of Fabric integration.
  • Built generic push notification framework with FCM, which can be configured at server level to send across any type of payload.
  • Built realtime feature control with the help of FireBase Remote Config.
  • Analysed & cut down app size from 16.3MB to 8.7MB.
  • Built custom UI component like Rent-meter for Android app & ported the same onto HTML5 canvas to draw on mobile & desktop websites.
  • Helped automate the process of lead generation & user verification by reverse engineering famous apps in the market.

Android Javascript Firebase Fabric & Crashlyitcs Google Analytics AWS S3 SDK Google Places SDK Google Maps SDK


Airfye - Senior Associate

March 2014 — July 2015

A simple plug-n-play device that lets you control your home from any part of the world, through your smartphone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airfye.android

  • Only member of mobility team.
  • Bootstrapped, designed & developed customer facing Android app & hardware production testing app.
  • Bootstrapped iOS app and built first module to communicate between app & hardware chip over TCP/IP
  • Commnication over Bluetooth, TCP/IP & over Web Services using MessagePack integration.

Android IoT Network Communication protocols MessagePack Google Analytics


Eduora - Full Stack + Android Developer

April 2013 — February 2014

Mobile-first academic collaboration platform.

  • Only engineer in the Company.
  • Re-built Android application from PhoneGap to native Android app.
  • Revamped & re-built web application from CodeIgniter to Yii.
  • Developed Web APIs for mobile platforms.
  • Contibuted to PhoneGap https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/pull/12

Android HTML CSS Javascript PHP(Yii) MongoDB MySql PhoneGap Microsoft Azure AWS(EC2, S3)


in.ti.ti - Full Stack + Android Developer

April 2011 — March 2013

A services based startup focused on Android, PHP & Ruby on Rails.

Android HTML CSS Javascript PHP(CodeIgniter) MySql