Pasha Riger
Head Of Product Engineering at Culina Health
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolPasha Riger is a multidisciplinary technology leader and Head of Product Engineering with over a decade of experience building startups, advising early-stage companies, and shipping AI-enabled products. He has driven enterprise innovation at Nike—leading GenAI adoption, technical due diligence, and storytelling to win stakeholder buy-in—while also serving as Fractional CTO and advisor to startups to rapidly productize ideas and scale teams. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, Pasha blends expertise in LLMs, RAG architectures, and generative media with a track record of delivering production systems. His background in music and content production informs a creative approach to product narratives—projects he’s promoted have garnered over 50 million views across social platforms. Based in Los Angeles, he combines startup grit with enterprise scaling experience and a knack for translating experimental AI into compelling, business-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
English, Russian, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (40)
travis-ci10
boilerplate10
mysql9
mariadb9
jsonb9
testing9
postgresql9
javascript9
json9
eslint9
typescript9
hapi9
databases9
sqlite9
mssql9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pashariger/engineering-policy
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
pashariger/testing-hapi
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Hapi style guide compliant boilerplate (updated to v17!)
Contributions:1 release, 43 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years
hapiboilerplateeslinttestingcompliant
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