Teams at Raya

Build and own member-facing features across a consumer iOS app and backend services. Develop Swift/UIKit client functionality, TypeScript/Node.js services, APIs, business logic, and client-server synchronization. Lead architecture, performance, testing, production monitoring, crash triage, and release quality. Collaborate with product, design, and data teams, mentor engineers, manage technical debt, and drive projects from concept through launch.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team building production recommender systems. Own reliable, low-latency retrieval and ranking infrastructure, observability, incident response, technical strategy, and experimentation. Partner with Machine Learning and Data Science teams on roadmaps, infrastructure investments, user-facing improvements, and recommendation quality, fairness, and reliability.

Owns Places’ data science and product analytics strategy, including success metrics, business metrics, data models, experimentation, visualization, and product insights. Partners with Data Engineering and product teams to build scalable data assets, improve retention, guide roadmap prioritization, and establish rigorous analytical frameworks. The role also applies LLMs, AI agents, and modern AI tools to automate analysis and decision support.