Summary
Rishi Mittal is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Dubai with 12 years of experience building and scaling e-commerce and platform infrastructure across high-growth unicorns in MENA. He leads cross-functional teams at Careem, driving Search & Discovery, Catalog, Merchant and POS systems while migrating monoliths to microservices and improving key business KPIs through experimentation and event-driven data pipelines. Hands-on in backend architecture, SRE and DevOps, he has designed PCI-compliant payment infrastructures, large-scale search platforms and CI/CD/IAAC patterns on AWS and OpenStack. Rishi hires and mentors engineers and junior managers across multiple countries, writes development plans, and focuses on retention and career growth. Notably, he launched the Shops vertical supporting tens of thousands of orders per month and has a track record of cost-optimisation and automation at Zomato and Practo. He combines technical depth in systems design with a pragmatic product-oriented mindset that emphasizes observability, reliability and continuous improvement.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, A, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, A at University of Rajasthan
Diploma of Education, Business Computing, Diploma of Education, Business Computing at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology
Arabic, Hindi, English