Pavan Rikhi
Staff Haskell Engineer at Mercury
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolPavan Rikhi is a Staff Haskell Engineer with 13 years of backend and Linux systems experience, currently shaping Risk Engineering tooling and platforms at Mercury. He specializes in functional programming (Haskell, Elm, Purescript) and full-stack delivery, with a track record of improving performance and revenue through pragmatic rewrites and automation. Pavan combines hands-on server administration—Ansible, NixOS, FreeBSD, OpenStack—with cross-platform build and packaging expertise demonstrated in contributions that modernized multi-OS build processes. His career began with self-directed learning from a TI-83 calculator to college biochemistry, and he deliberately studies a new language each year, reflecting a rare blend of curiosity and discipline. Outside work he pursues eclectic technical hobbies—lockpicking, lightsaber-building—and volunteers as an open-source contributor, bringing practical craftsmanship to both infrastructure and application code.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Dulaney High School100 Credits Towards B.S. Biochemistry, 100 Credits Towards B.S. Biochemistry at University of Maryland
English
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
scripting10
django10
mezzanine10
script10
build-automation10
html10
sh10
web-development10
shell10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
python9
css9
webextension8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
prikhi/pencil
Mar 2015 - May 2017
DEPRECATED: Multiplatform GUI Prototyping/Wireframing
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 213 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily contributed to the build process, fixing build scripts for different operating systems, and improving the overall build process. They updated the build script to support Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms, implemented an XPI build, fixed XPI and Windows file associations, and made improvements to the documentation. The user's work was focused on maintaining and improving the Pencil prototyping tool's build and packaging system across multiple platforms.
utmprototypingeaglewireframinggui
stephenmcd/mezzanine
Apr 2014 - Mar 2016
CMS framework for Django
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily contributed to the Mezzanine CMS framework by adding and modifying features. They integrated third-party applications, moved Javascript to the bottom of HTML files, and updated templates for the blog post list functionality. The user also improved documentation and added external links to the repository. Their work involved both front-end and back-end code modifications across multiple templates and documentation files.
cmscms-frameworkpythondjangoframework
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