Riyad Kalla is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of senior technology management experience who currently heads Paze Technology at Early Warning, orchestrating the build, scale, and national launch of a payments platform preloaded with 150 million cards. He has a track record of turning R&D efforts into production-grade, highly stable systems—improving Zelle’s stability from 98% to 99.99%—and has repeatedly been recruited to raise engineering maturity, culture, and delivery at scale. Comfortable in regulatory and audit settings, he bridges technical execution with business and compliance stakeholders to deliver auditable, resilient platforms. Riyad is also a long-time open-source contributor and creator of widely used Java libraries (imgscalr) and specs (Universal Binary JSON), showing a blend of hands-on engineering and product-level design thinking. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he thrives on complex, high-stakes challenges that combine architecture, people leadership, and operational rigor.
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