Rihaz Zahir

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India7 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in scalable and distributed systems development.
Strong background in Java and system design.
Proven track record in fraud prevention and data processing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech software engineer with expertise in scalable systems and data processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Low-level DesignProblem SolvingApache KafkaData ProcessingFraud PreventionApi OptimizationObject Oriented Design

Other Skills

ElasticsearchCassandraData MonitoringAPI DevelopmentCore JavaElastic Stack (ELK)Model-View-Controller (MVC)Design PatternsSystems DesignComputer ScienceSoftware DesignREST APIsObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)RedisJava Development

About

Experienced software engineer with a demonstrated history of developing scalable and distributed system from scratch. Skilled in java, spring, data structures, algorithm and high, low-level system design. Strong engineering background with a bachelor's degree(btech) focused on computer science from IIT Roorkee.

Experience

7 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 1 mo

Current Experience

Oracle

Senior Member of Technical Staff

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Celigo

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Low-Level Design

Google

Software Engineer

Mar 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Problem SolvingObject Oriented Design

Paytm

Software Developer

Oct 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

1. As a member of PROMOTIONS team, devised a strategy to process the stream of promocode usage data using elasticsearch, cassandra and ran aggregation to derive intelligent data.
2. Build system to automate the process to assign promocode to onboarding merchant.
3. Developed an approach to monitor data flow and implemented dynamic locks on transactions in case of a system failure to curtail fraudulent activity.
4. Modified and developed API to retrieve promocode based on the feature requirement, improved existing search query for faster retrieval for campaign data.

Apache KafkaProblem Solving

Nagarro

Software Developer

Jul 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

1. Part of Shoppers Stop development team at Nagarro software, working on spring mvc and SAP hybris technology.
2. Worked collaboratively to integrate Paytm wallet and improved payment process by integrating Payu Payment gateway for seamless user experience.

Problem SolvingObject Oriented Design