I build product systems across backend, full-stack, AI workflows, and technical leadership for startup teams that need senior ownership from ambiguous requirements to production systems.
I’m useful when the work crosses backend systems, product constraints, AI workflows, integrations, and the messy decisions that sit between idea and shipped software.
Designing and shipping AI-backed product workflows where model output has to become reliable, editable, and useful inside a real business process.
Problem framing, data boundaries, evaluation loops, human review, reliability, and rolloutOwning APIs, databases, checkout flows, payment integrations, subscriptions, document generation, dashboards, and deployment pipelines.
Data modelling, API boundaries, queues, payments, observability, deployment, and scaleTurning incomplete product direction into shippable systems, reviewing architecture, managing developers, and making pragmatic build decisions.
Architecture reviews, tradeoff calls, team coordination, delivery planning, and hands-on implementationA chronological view of the roles behind the work: global marketplace systems, payments, travel technology, fractional leadership, and recent AI/product builds.
2026 - Present · Creator economy product engineering · Remote
Building an AI-powered dev platform and product infrastructure for live streamers and content creators, with ownership across product decisions, architecture, backend systems, frontend workflows, and integrations.
Dec 2024 - Present · Startup product and technical leadership · Remote
Leading development and delivery of core products with a focus on scalable, maintainable solutions while balancing hands-on engineering, DevOps ownership, and architecture decisions.
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024 · Freelance AI product development · Remote
Built AI-first SaaS and enterprise applications across transcription, business report generation, and self-hostable conversational assistants.
Jun 2021 - Oct 2023 · Global marketplace engineering · Hybrid
Built RESTful microservices powering checkout and pricing business logic for a global ecommerce marketplace.
Nov 2019 - May 2021 · High-scale mobility and EV product engineering · On-site
Built customer-facing web and backend systems for Ola Electric, including payments, test-ride workflows, and service deployment.
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019 · Enterprise travel technology · On-site
Developed and maintained internal web applications for scheduling and activation of production changes and software loads across the organization.
Selected work across marketplace backend systems, AI SaaS delivery, startup technical leadership, EV launch systems, and current creator tooling.
Built and operated checkout and pricing microservices for StockX's global marketplace, contributing to backend systems behind a platform that surpassed 50M+ lifetime trades, 15M+ buyers, and 1.7M sellers by 2023.
The marketplace backend had to support high traffic, pricing and checkout correctness, asynchronous workflows, deployment safety, regulatory constraints, and fraud-risk considerations across production services.
Worked across Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, SQS, AWS, Kubernetes, CircleCI, Harness, and Datadog while building reliability and domain depth in global marketplace operations.
Shipped 3 AI-first SaaS and enterprise products in 6 months: legal transcription with Whisper, business report generation with AI-generated content/charts/PDF export, and a self-hostable enterprise assistant.
Each product needed AI output to become reliable business software: editable documents, subscriptions, persistence, chart/report generation, search, speech input, model portability, and controlled execution.
Delivered workflows with React, Django, Stripe, CloudFront, Whisper, open-source LLM support, Tavily search, persistence, and sandboxed execution across client-facing and enterprise contexts.
Lead architecture and delivery for a US startup, managing a small part-time engineering team while owning backend architecture, DevOps, Atlassian Marketplace apps, CRM/marketing automation, AI workflow prototyping, and production release tradeoffs.
The work spans product discovery, architecture decisions, developer execution, infrastructure, release scope, and stakeholder tradeoffs without the overhead of a large engineering org.
Balance hands-on engineering with technical direction, lightweight process, architecture review, production release decisions, and fast iteration across startup product builds.
Built customer-facing web and backend systems during Ola Electric's high-demand EV launch period, including official website work, Adyen/PayU payments, and scheduled/on-demand test-ride workflows.
The launch cycle saw 100k+ bookings in 24 hours and about 500k first-month bookings, so customer-facing flows needed to handle demand while supporting payments, booking workflows, and service deployments.
Worked across React, Node.js, Java Spring Boot, MySQL, Jenkins, Marathon, Mesos, and Azure, while also leading external contractors, interviewing, and mentoring new joiners.
Developing an AI-powered dev platform for creator widgets, focused on turning AI-processed SVG and Lottie assets into reusable interactive units through a pipeline-driven ingestion flow.
The product needs a large library of creator-ready widgets, but building each widget manually would be slow, repetitive, and hard to scale while the product direction is still evolving.
Own the platform architecture and full-stack implementation for a pipeline that reduces manual widget-building effort and gives the team a faster path from generated assets to usable creator tooling.
A few client notes that reflect the working style: direct ownership, full-stack range, and steady delivery.
Riya has been an incredible asset to our team, seamlessly managing projects while contributing to both front-end and back-end development. Her proactive approach and ability to 'just get things done' set her apart from others we've worked with. Riya's technical expertise, combined with her sharp project management skills, ensured that everything ran smoothly and ahead of schedule.
Riya is an exceptional full stack developer who consistently impresses us. Her expertise spans front-end, back-end, and database management, allowing her to handle entire projects independently. Riya's work quality is consistently top-notch, delivering high-quality code throughout the application.
I’m adding more public work over time, especially around AI-native development, agent workflows, and full-stack foundations.
Trust-first Indian equity research app with investor profiling, deterministic suitability guardrails, research candidates, and a local decision journal. Python / FastAPI / React / TypeScript
satsang-lekhanHindi long-form speech-to-text PWA using Bhashini ASR, Firebase Cloud Functions, Google sign-in, Firestore chapter sync, and installable mobile UI. React / Firebase / Bhashini ASR / PWA
ledger-lensLocal-first personal finance explainer that parses statements, sanitizes transactions, stores evidence in LanceDB, and keeps raw bank data out of external model calls. Python / LanceDB / Local embeddings / RAG boundaries
rtil.fyiThis public site and resume system, including structured content, admin editing, generated PDF resumes, and a private resume lab. Next.js / TypeScript / PDFKit / Neon
I’m most useful when the scope is technical, ambiguous, and important enough to need an engineer who can reason through tradeoffs and still ship.