Khizer Syed
Software Engineer, Android at DoorDash
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolKhizer Syed is a seasoned Android software engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing mobile apps across companies like DoorDash, PayPal, and MyFitnessPal. Based in Mountain View, he specializes in shipping polished Android features—from real-time notifications and onboarding flows to performance and memory optimizations—while navigating platform fragmentation and Material Design. He combines strong hands-on engineering with a quick-learning mindset and a track record of squashing hard-to-find bugs and memory leaks that improved app reliability. Khizer’s background includes a master’s in software engineering and early experience automating weblog analysis and infrastructure support, giving him a pragmatic systems perspective beyond front-end mobile work. Outside of work he’s driven by coding, travel, and cars, which fuels a thoughtful balance of curiosity and practical product focus.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class with Distinction at Osmania University
English, Hindi, Telugu, UrduGithub contributions (5)
khizerhs/WebGuide
Apr 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 7 months
khizerhs/NoteSmart
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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