Moiz Virani is a senior software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native systems and high-performing teams, now serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce. He co-founded Momentum, an AI revenue orchestration startup, and was a founding engineer at Blameless where he drove SRE, observability and infrastructure work across Kubernetes, Prometheus and Terraform. Hands-on across backend, DevOps and platform engineering, he brings deep expertise in SRE practices, DevOps automation and scaling production systems. An early contributor to the Appium ecosystem, Moiz has improved Android and iOS automation drivers and tooling—demonstrating a knack for pragmatic open-source contributions that improve developer workflows. He pairs product and company-building instincts with academic curiosity in functional programming (Haskell), which informs his emphasis on correctness and maintainable systems. Based in Vancouver, he blends empathy-led team building with a mission-driven approach to shipping infrastructure and AI-enabled products.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
B.E Computer Science, B.E Computer Science at Osmania University
Contributions:93 commits, 68 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Moiz primarily contributed to the `appium-adb` repository by adding methods and refactoring code related to Android Debug Bridge (ADB) functionality. Their work included implementing a method to check for the soft keyboard, adding parameters to the `startApp` method and refactoring it. The user also replaced a deprecated library with the latest version and implemented a function to check for APK internet permission.
Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:10 releases, 103 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Moiz primarily focused on enhancing the Appium framework by adding new features and improving existing functionalities for Android devices. They implemented features such as `hideSoftKeyboard`, added intent parameters, and incorporated retry mechanisms for screenshot captures on iOS. Additionally, the user contributed to the Selendroid integration by adding checks for internet permissions and updating the underlying ADB tools. These modifications involved changes to core Android and iOS controller files, bootstrapping, and testing frameworks.
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Moiz Virani - Co-Founder, CTO at Momentum—Sales Platform