Riyaz Kagzi is a Senior Technology Consultant and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems, cloud-native platforms, and secure infrastructure across startups and fintech. He has hands-on expertise in Go, AWS, background processing (SQS), container-based ELT pipelines, and implementing extensible data models—evident from contributions to mergestat-lite where he ported GitQLite tables and implemented table-valued commit functions. Riyaz has repeatedly improved production reliability and security, from building a secure cloud platform with policy enforcement to designing Tailscale-backed VPN access and hardened AWS architectures. He excels at shipping pragmatic, reusable engineering primitives—such as a standalone Go background-queue library—and bridging product needs with scalable technical designs. Comfortable toggling between deep systems work and product-facing features, he’s delivered analytics, notification pipelines, and valuation/reporting systems for VC/PE suites. Based in Pune, he pairs practical open-source contributions with a focus on auditable, compliance-friendly engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application Cloud Computing, BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application Cloud Computing at Mohanlal Sukhadia University
Secondary School, Secondary School at St. Paul's Senior Secondary School
Query git repositories with SQL. Generate reports, perform status checks, analyze codebases. 🔍 📊
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Riyaz's contributions focused on porting existing tables from GitQLite to a new driver within the `mergestat-lite` repository. This involved modifying Go code to integrate and utilize the new driver, specifically targeting git repository querying with SQL. The commits demonstrate work on internal Git tables, including file and stats iterators. Additionally, the user implemented a table-valued function for commits.
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Riyaz Kagzi - Senior Technology Consultant at Technogise