Hey, I'm Riyaz,

a Father, Fitness Lover, Software Engineer and Leader

With over a decade in software development and four years in management, I currently serve as Chief Technology Officer at Plobal Apps, a leading platform for e-commerce mobile and web app development. I oversee the entire engineering team, covering mobile, web, backend, and DevOps, ensuring scalable solutions. Previously, I led projects at Swiggy, enhancing dining experiences through Swiggy Dineout and empowering restaurants with Swiggy Vendor apps. I prioritize innovation, customer satisfaction, and organizational growth through collaboration and continuous learning.

Plobal Apps - Chief Technology Officer

May 2024 — Present

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

  • Achieved a significant 45% reduction in infrastructure costs and completely revamped infrastructure security
  • Built AppBuzz.ai. AppBuzz transforms online stores into high-converting mobile apps with advanced push notifications and seamless integrations. Enjoy expert support and achieve up to 5x higher conversion rates.

Product Management Project Management Program Management Technical Leadership Coaching & Mentoring Process Efficiency Delegation Team Management


Plobal Apps - Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2022 — Apr 2024

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