About

Tushar Tayal is a seasoned engineering leader with over 9 years of experience in building products and teams in mobile and web applications, ad tech, enterprise software solutions, and CRM. He has a mix of experience working in Series A/B product startups, matured startups, and big multinational companies. Tushar has delivered highly scalable software products for many tech giants like Microsoft, Samsung, Ola, and Amadeus. Tushar has built products and teams from the ground up, and he is technically aligned and well-versed in influencing data-driven technical, operational, and process changes towards excellence. He has Android app development experience in Kotlin, Java, KMP, iOS app development experience in Swift and Objective C, and web development experience in React/Redux, Typescript, and C#. He also has database experience in SQL and NoSQL databases like Oracle, MySQL, Mongo, Cosmos, and Cassandra, and cloud experience in Azure, AWS, Oracle, and Google Cloud. Tushar is an Oracle Certified Java Professional Java SE6 Programmer and Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Associate. Currently, he serves as the Engineering Lead for the Swiggy Consumer Apps (Android + iOS) team, leading a team of 50+ FTE devs, 10+ FTC devs, and 15+ SDETs. He is responsible for setting growth charter and personal development plans for all engineers, ensuring app uptime is close to 100%, monitoring app performance, critical business metrics, etc., with the right alerts mechanism. He also spends extra efforts in taking tech-driven initiatives as a part of continuous exploration and adaptability, prioritizing the right things to improve consumer experience and app usability, and following the "build once and use everywhere" philosophy in software development. In the past, Tushar has served as the Engineering Lead for Android/iOS Consumer App, HMI App, Business App, and Web apps at Ola, where he worked on the Next Gen Electric 2W to bring a fully connected digital experience. He also managed a team of 15 highly skilled engineers working on OEM Consumer and Business Apps and built the entire Android/iOS/Web team from scratch. At Microsoft, Tushar played a key role in the transition of Dynamics365 Portal to Powerapps Portal and worked on improving query performance for Bing Ads Data Engine by reparenting nested entities. Tushar holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from the