~/rishav $ whoami

Rishav Raj

Full-stack engineer — Next.js + TypeScript in production, Python under the hood — retooling into AI engineering: RAG pipelines, tool-using agents, and evals that block a bad PR before it merges.

⬇ résumégithub ↗

now — building fin-research-agent in public · evals before features · citations before confidence

$ tail -f ~/rishav/story.md

I started in mechanical engineering at BIT Mesra and taught myself to code in my first year. The plan was never "frontend" or "backend" — it was ship things that work.

Three years later that has meant React frontends, Python services, data pipelines over 2M+ records, and an AI engine that quietly does the boring half of a triage team's job. Now I'm going deep on AI engineering — building in public, with the numbers to show for it.

3+ yrsshipping production software — frontends, services, data pipelines

40%of support cases auto-closed by an AI feedback engine I built at work

₹0compute cost of my AI stack — local-first, Ollama on-device

$ ls ./projects — things I'm building & shipping

01● building

fin-research-agent

AI research assistant over SEC filings. Ask which company grew revenue fastest after its 2023 acquisition — get a cited answer, or an honest "the filings don't say." Hybrid BM25 + pgvector retrieval measured with recall@k/MRR, a raw no-framework agent loop, and golden-set evals gating CI.

PythonFastAPIPostgres + pgvectorDockerevals

view on github →

02✓ shipped

YourSpeakReps

Mock interviews that run 100% on my Mac — speaks questions out loud, listens to spoken answers, coaches with a score /10, filler-word counter and STAR feedback. Ollama + faster-whisper on-device: ₹0 per session, offline. The server runs the interview; the LLM only converses.

FastAPIOllamafaster-whisperTTS

view on github →

03✓ shipped

Rapid-Markdown-Editor

A markdown editor for writing fast and exporting faster — one click to a clean PDF. Small tool, obsessive UX.

ReactMarkdownPDF

view on github →

$ cat experience.log — where I've shipped

Software Development Engineer II (SDE-2) · Virohan Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 2023 – Present · Gurgaon, India

Built an AI feedback engine that classifies, summarizes and routes feedback to the right owner — auto-closes 40% of cases, cutting manual triage by 60%.
Reworked payment processing spread across order, confirmation and recording flows into one service with a single source of truth for payment state.
Fixed reporting and data-pipeline issues by validating queries and correcting SQL transformations across 2M+ records.
Built and maintain backend services and APIs with Python, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, AWS and Azure; debug production issues across APIs, databases, queues and telemetry.
Defined practical guidelines for using AI coding tools and agents — context management, generated code, human review.

Junior Web Developer · BotX Automations Pvt. Ltd.

Oct 2021 – Feb 2022 · Kozhikode, India

Built client-facing web apps with React.js and JavaScript, improving frontend performance and cross-team development efficiency.
Developed a library of reusable React components that cut technical debt and sped up future feature work.

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