Software Engineer
Skizen
• Hyderabad, India
- Architected and developed a mobile-first social discovery platform connecting users through location-based demand mapping, engineering the cross-platform client with React Native (Expo) and backend services using Django, DRF, Express, and PostgreSQL with GeoJSON 2dsphere spatial indexing for business discovery, category feeds, and tiered RBAC.
- Engineered high-performance video feed orchestration using expo-video and viewport visibility detection (onViewableItemsChanged), guaranteeing single-stream hardware-accelerated playback with preloading, zero black-frame transitions, and non-blocking background media ingestion.
- Developed a production-quality local video automation tool (Python, OpenCV, PySceneDetect, FFmpeg) to prepare raw footage for 9:16 Instagram Reel editing; implemented automated scene cut detection, visual quality scoring (sharpness, motion), perceptual duplicate filtering, and programmatic CapCut Desktop draft project generation with non-destructive speed retiming (1.0x, 0.75x, 0.5x slo-mo) and an interactive human-in-the-loop review UI.
- Engineered an automated social media posting pipeline that monitors client Google Drive folders for finalized Reels and automatically schedules and publishes content across client social media handles (Meta Graph API / Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts) with chunked media upload streaming, OAuth token lifecycle management, rate limiting, and resilient retry mechanisms.
- Built asynchronous backend pipelines using Celery and Redis to decouple background analytics aggregation and push notifications; implemented bidirectional real-time messaging using Socket.IO with JWT authentication, typing indicators, and TOTP-based two-factor authentication (2FA).