Riya Tirole

Software Engineer

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands10 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

7+ years of experience in software engineering.
Expert in building scalable and reliable systems.
Proven track record in mentoring and project management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on distributed systems and cloud computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsProject Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkApache KafkaCC++Cloud SecurityCommunicationEnglishHTMLJavaLeadershipManagementMarket ResearchMicrosoft Excel

About

I’m a software engineer with 7+ years of experience delivering robust, scalable systems across diverse industries and tech stacks. I specialize in aligning technical solutions with business goals, driving performance, reliability, and customer trust. I lead high-impact projects with full ownership—from design to delivery—mentoring engineers, improving system reliability, and optimizing processes along the way. I collaborate effectively across teams and manage stakeholders to deliver real business value. Driven by continuous improvement and attention to detail, I take pride in building resilient products that stand the test of time. Let’s connect and explore how we can collaborate to build something great.

Experience

Booking.com

Software Engineer 2

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Developed security solutions to detect and remediate threats, enhancing user trust.
Managed projects end-to-end, improving reliability, fault tolerance, and performance.
Provided guidance and mentorship to team members, driving process improvements.

CommunicationAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkTest AutomationCloud SecurityStakeholder Management+4

Thoughtspot

Member of Technical Staff 4

Feb 2023 – Apr 2023 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

A short but impact making stint, implementing and delivering query formation and optimisation for the feature “Custom groups” (docs.thoughtspot.com/cloud/latest/custom-groups).

Communication

Amazon

SDE 2

Aug 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built a lambda service to read transactions data from upstream (SQS) and persist specific types, bank transfers & disbursements to DynamoDb and ElasticSearch.
Impact - Improve transactional transparency for users to get transactions reconciliation (with respective order mapping) report for their business account.
Technically designed end to end portal, implemented components along with gathering requirements and creating UI mockups for catalog contribution for WFM business. Ownership also required collaborating with teams across Amazon from a technical standpoint. Mentored & managed an SDE1 working on related components.
Created high level design for Phase 1 of the project which offers better UX & is workflow based.
Impact - Reduction in time taken for product onboarding (in Amazon catalog) from ~3 weeks to <1 day and achieve 95% sales weighted item quality.

CommunicationAmazon Web Services (AWS)Stakeholder EngagementCloud ComputingDistributed Systems

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Associate

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Securities Lending Tech Team
Uplifted multiple applications across post-trade from old Weblogic/JMS infrastructure making them stream-based, self-healing with dead-letter queues, deduplication checks and configuring it to run across hosts with zero intraday downtime release without impacting business. The migration enabled the applications (which then processed 500k activities per day) to be scalable by a factor of 1x (5M) without affecting throughput and latency.
Impact - Reduced support headcount requirement per application per month by 15%. (total 3), Increased throughput by 3x.

CommunicationStakeholder EngagementApache KafkaDistributed Systems

Analyst

Jun 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Regulatory Reporting Tech Team
Built scala data refiners to process millions of transactional and positional data & massage it to be meaningful for filling different regulations. Also onboarded new regulation TIC-SLT onto existing exception based application used for reviewing and finalizing data to be reported to respective regulators.
Impact - Reduced headcounts required per filing period by 25%.

CommunicationStakeholder EngagementScala

Buddybyte.com

Web Content Writer

Dec 2015 – Mar 2016 · 3 mos · Work from home. (PUNE)

My responsibilities were to get trending topics and it's content to attract more users to our website.

Code club cummins

Organizer

Jan 2015 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Cummins College of engineering for women, Pune

Code Club (https://www.facebook.com/codecummins) is a students club where students themselves hold lectures, guest sessions and workshops for fellow classmates and juniors.