Rishav Raj

Full-Stack Engineer · SDE-2 · AI Engineering (RAG · Agents · Evals)

iamrishavraj1@gmail.com·iamrishavraj1.com·github.com/iamrishavraj1·x.com/iamrishavraj1·Gurgaon, India

Hire me as a developer today — or bet on the trajectory: Principal Architect · CTO track.

Open to Senior / Staff full-stack and AI-engineering roles in teams that care about measured quality. I ship, I measure, and I take ownership the way owners do — the Dharmveer Award for High Integrity & Ownership wasn't participation.

3+ yrs productionAI engine — 40% cases auto-closedSQL pipelines over 2M+ recordsevals-first AI engineeringPull Shark ×2

01Why me

Software engineer with 3+ years of production experience across backend services, full-stack products, AI automation and data pipelines. I don't demo with happy paths — I build systems that survive 300-page SEC filings, 2M+-record tables and real users. Right now I'm going deep on AI engineering: RAG pipelines with measured retrieval quality (recall@k, MRR), tool-using agents that cite their sources, and eval suites that block a bad PR before it merges.

On interview format, honestly: hand me a system-design conversation, an architecture review or a production incident and I'm at my sharpest — that's where my evidence lives. Timed algorithm puzzles aren't my sport; shipped, measured systems are.

02Experience

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.

03Selected projects

  • fin-research-agent — AI research assistant over SEC EDGAR filings: hybrid BM25+pgvector retrieval (recall@k/MRR), no-framework tool-using agent, golden-set evals gating CI. In active development.
  • YourSpeakReps — cross-platform AI speaking coach (mock interviews, behavioral, English practice), 100% local: STT→LLM→TTS pipeline over Ollama + faster-whisper + native OS TTS, ₹0 compute, offline-first.
  • Rapid-Markdown-Editor — markdown editor with one-click PDF export.

04Technical skills

LanguagesPython · JavaScript (ES6+) · TypeScript · SQL · PowerShell
BackendFastAPI · Flask · REST APIs · PostgreSQL · Flyway · MVC · Microservices
FrontendReact.js · Next.js · Vite · TanStack Router/Query · Zustand · Tailwind
Cloud & DevOpsAWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS, S3) · Azure (App Service, Functions, Static Web Apps, Bicep) · OpenTelemetry · Docker · GitHub Actions
DatabasesPostgreSQL · MySQL · DynamoDB · pgvector
AI & AutomationOpenAI-compatible APIs · Ollama · AI agents · OCR pipelines · eval design · n8n
ToolsGit · Bitbucket · Postman · pytest

05Education

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering · Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

2019 – 2023 · GPA 7.62/10

Relevant coursework: Object-Oriented Programming, Database Management Systems, ML/AI.

06Achievements

🏅 Dharmveer Award — High Integrity & Ownership✍️ 15,000+ blog reads (dev.to · Hashnode · Medium)🦈 GitHub Pull Shark ×2 · YOLO

Full project deep-dives, architecture diagrams and live numbers: iamrishavraj1.com