Ojas Goyal
Sunnyvale, California PayPal · Venmo Mobile Infra Open to conversations

Senior Software Engineer

I help teams ship software that people use.

I work at PayPal on Venmo mobile infrastructure. My team supports Venmo developers and ships the app to the Apple App Store and Google Play. Before PayPal I built release tools at Apple, scanner software at Smiths Detection, and my own products including Zumoji.

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PayPal / VenmoMobile infrastructure and app releases
ZumojiLive game I founded and built
UIUC + UC DavisMBA and Computer Engineering
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Ojas Goyal · Bay Area

About

What I do

I build and run software that has to work in production: developer tools, release pipelines, and apps people actually use.

At PayPal I support the Venmo mobile app. That includes developer infrastructure and the process that publishes Venmo to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Before that I built internal release tools at Apple and operator software for airport baggage scanners at Smiths Detection. I also founded Zumoji, a live emoji game on Google Cloud.

I have an MBA from the University of Illinois and a Computer Engineering background from UC Davis.

Experience

Experience

Most recent role first.

PayPal · Venmo

Software Engineer, Venmo Mobile Infrastructure

  • Support the developer infrastructure used to build the Venmo mobile app.
  • Help ship Venmo to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
  • Keep the release process reliable for the teams that work on the app.

Independent + Zumoji

Founder & Product Engineer

  • Built and run Zumoji, a set of emoji games hosted on Google Cloud.
  • Also shipped smaller products such as ReceiptAlly and other public tools.
  • Handle product, engineering, and hosting myself.

Software Engineer

Audio software release tools

  • Built Python and Flask tools that moved software changes through staging, build, and submit.
  • Helped integrators start builds, write release notes, and submit after QA.
  • Stored release status in PostgreSQL so the process was easy to track.

Software Engineer

Software for CTX baggage scanners

  • Built a PyQt tester that uploaded hardware results over REST.
  • Worked on the Threat Resolution Interface in Qt, C++, and Python, plus a web version in AngularJS and Node.js.
  • Built a Rails site to start builds, compare versions, and view test results.
  • Helped with an internal self-driving prototype used for machine learning work.

Projects

Projects

Start with the live product. The rest are work systems and side projects.

Zumoji game artwork
Live

Zumoji

A set of emoji games I co-founded and built. I designed the product, wrote the software, and deployed it on Google Cloud.

ProductGCPGamesWeb
Play Zumoji
Apple internal tooling visual

Apple audio integration tools

Internal Flask and PostgreSQL tools used to stage, build, and submit audio software changes.

CTX scanner operator software

CTX operator interfaces

Desktop and web software used by operators on airport baggage scanners.

CI/CD pipeline illustration

Automated deployment

Jenkins, Docker, and Ansible pipelines that automated builds and reduced manual release work.

Data visualization charts

MBA data visualization

R and Power BI charts on college costs and Chicago Divvy bike rides.

Small autonomous vehicle project

Applied machine learning

A small self-driving prototype at Smiths Detection, plus ML courses from Stanford, DeepLearning.AI, and IBM.

Coursework and certificates collage

ReceiptAlly & tools

Public work on GitHub, including ReceiptAlly and other small tools.

GitHub

Skills

Skills

Languages

PythonC++JavaScriptRubySQL

Product & UI

Qt / PyQtFlaskAngularJSNode.jsRails

Delivery

Mobile infraApp StorePlay StoreJenkinsDockerAnsibleGCPGit

Data & ML

PostgreSQLRPower BINeural netsREST APIs

Education

Education

2020 — 2023

MBA, Gies College of Business

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Focus on business analytics and entrepreneurship.

UC Davis

Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering coursework, Cisco IT Scholar, and Dean’s Honor List.

Machine Learning

Stanford University · 2017

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

DeepLearning.AI · 2018

Machine Learning with Python

IBM · 2020

Contact

Get in touch

LinkedIn is the best place to reach me. GitHub has public code. Zumoji is a live product you can try right now.

LinkedIn — ojas-goyal GitHub — ogoyal Play Zumoji X / Twitter