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Riya Garg

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India9 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in engineering leadership.
  • Expertise in scalable architecture and system design.
  • Strong focus on product-led development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable systems and product-driven development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementAgile Project ManagementManagement Of International TeamsFront-end DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

Managing AssociatesProblem SolvingAgile MethodologiesInterpersonal CommunicationTeamworkJavaScriptTechnical DesignConsumer InternetDesign ThinkingCommunicationGitScrumTeam LeadershipTechnical ArchitectureAgile & Waterfall Methodologies

About

I’m a seasoned Engineering Leader with a proven track record of building innovative, customer-centric products and leading high-performing teams at scale. With almost a decade of experience across global tech giants like Walmart, Salesforce, and Booking.com, I specialize in frontend engineering, full-stack development, and scalable platform architecture. I've led and scaled teams (15+ engineers) across B2C and B2B products, delivering measurable impact in fast-paced, high-growth environments. Core Strengths & Focus Areas: 🔹 Engineering Leadership & Team Building
- Skilled at leading cross-functional engineering teams with a focus on autonomy, velocity, and excellence. I foster cultures of ownership, accountability, and innovation—backed by well-defined processes and clear goals. 🔹 Product-Led Development
- I bring a strong product mindset to engineering. I believe great engineers solve real problems, not just tickets—driving product outcomes through deep customer empathy and iterative development. 🔹 Scalable Architecture & System Design - 
 Hands-on experience designing and scaling distributed systems that serve millions. My expertise spans performance optimization, observability, reliability engineering, and cloud-native architecture. 🔹 Frontend & Web Engineering
- Rooted in frontend engineering, I have deep experience with modern web technologies, building custom UI frameworks, and optimizing for performance, accessibility, and user experience across platforms. 🔹 Talent Development & Hiring
- I’m passionate about mentoring engineers, hiring top talent, and creating inclusive, high-trust environments where teams thrive and individuals grow into leaders. 🔹 Community & Tech Evangelism
 - An active contributor to the tech ecosystem: I mentor engineers, speak at conferences, and engage with communities to share ideas, lessons, and innovations that move our industry forward. 📍 Based in Bengaluru, India, I thrive at the intersection of engineering, product, and people leadership. Whether it's building platforms from scratch, driving digital transformation, or mentoring future leaders—I'm excited by complex challenges and meaningful impact. Let’s connect if you’re looking to collaborate, hire, or discuss building resilient tech organizations and scalable systems.

Experience

9 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Jiostar

Engineering leader

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos · India · Remote

  • Managing the cricinfo and sports experiences org consisting of 30+ members across web, mobile, backend and devops.
  • sucessfully launched the cricInfo new UX with better customer interaction, data visibility, SEO, performance across web, app and Infra.

Booking holdings (nasdaq: bkng)

Engineering Manager

Sep 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · India · Hybrid

Management Of International TeamsAgile Project ManagementEngineering Management

Jisr | جسر

Principal Manager - Consultant

Aug 2024Oct 2024 · 2 mos · India · Remote

  • Managed the complete web vertical consisting 7 teams of 35 Engineers across Geographies like UAE, India, Egypt, Europe in order to create the best customer experience.
  • Also worked on building the internal design system by the company.
  • Onboading the low code platform for the marketing pages and improve dev productivity.
Managing AssociatesManagement Of International TeamsFront-End Development

Salesforce

SMTS Eng Manager

Sep 2022Aug 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Led and managed an 8-member Core UI Platform team, developing the builder framework using Lightning Web Components.
  • Integrated Salesforce's highest traffic pages with Einstein GPT, automating monthly processes, increasing user adoption of AI features significantly.
Problem SolvingAgile MethodologiesInterpersonal CommunicationTeamworkJavaScriptTechnical Leadership+12

Walmart global tech india

3 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2021Sep 2022 · 11 mos

  • Managed a team of 11 members consist of 7 web and 4 mobile developers across multiple geographies handling user journey pages across walmart.com. Taken care of roadmap planning, feedback discussions, 1:1 discussions of the team. Reported directly to Senior director of Engineering.
  • Fostered strategic collaboration with product managers, developers, and stakeholders, ensuring every project achieved its full potential by aligning seamlessly with business objectives and delivering exceptional user experiences without hampering the quality.
  • Led the Next Day Delivery Project across user journey pages and Last mile delivery on walmart.com using electrode and ReactJs. this initiative rolled out the feature to 5098 zip codes in US and increased revenue by 5%.
  • Spearheaded the Black Friday Sale Readiness IniAaAve, developing advanced monitoring dashboards, strategic capacity planning, and robust caching strategies. Successfully migrated from Electrode-based APM to Prometheus, optimising monitoring efficiency and cutting resource utilisation by 70%.
  • Led the initiative of revamping the walmart.com user journey apps using react 17, nextJS and graphql in Team size of 11 people.
Problem SolvingRedux.jsAgile MethodologiesTeam ManagementInterpersonal CommunicationPerformance Management+21

Senior Software Engineer (SDE 4)

Promoted

May 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Implemented the Thanks-giving deals page from scratch using electrode and React. In the whole process, improved the overall ThanksGiving revenue by 20 % and reduced the user journey time by 10%.
  • Reduced JS bundle size and increased performance of the the item descripAon page using state machine modal to reduce the JS bundle size by 50%. Onboarded ~65 other engineers to the same iniAaAve where we rearchitected the Walmart pages. As an impact, saw a great improvement in web vitals score and over all user drop-off reduced by 20%.
Problem SolvingRedux.jsAgile MethodologiesInterpersonal CommunicationPerformance ManagementTeamwork+17

Software Engineer III

May 2018May 2020 · 2 yrs

Problem SolvingRedux.jsAgile MethodologiesInterpersonal CommunicationPerformance ManagementTeamwork+9

Practo

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2017Apr 2018 · 6 mos · On-site

  • Revamped an 8+ old year hospital management software- Insta HMS using React, Redux, Axios, nodejs.
  • Smart Card integration for one-click registration and auto populating the patient data through the Application.
  • Marketing and collection of live feedback from customers from various countries like UAE and Philippines.
  • Completely automated the end to end testing usingCypress to minimise the number of Bugs reported.
Agile Project Management

Software Engineer

Jul 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

Problem SolvingRedux.jsAgile MethodologiesInterpersonal CommunicationTeamworkJest+6

National payments corporation of india (npci)

Software Development Intern

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, India

  • Worked in the field of mobile security at Institute of Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad under the guidance of Mr. Radhakrishna Akella, Associate Vice President of NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India), Hyderabad.
  • Proposed the idea to implement an android App which will work as a platform for inter-bank transactions via SMS only. For this purpose analysed the performance of RSA and ECIES algorithms
Problem SolvingTeamworkGit

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

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