Rik Basu
Staff Software Engineer at AMD
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRik Basu is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building product-focused systems and shipping AR/vision-enabled consumer apps. He co-founded Realize, the top-rated iOS home design app with over 1M downloads, where he led engineering, managed builds in Unity/C#, and even ported the product to Vision Pro while driving analytics-informed product decisions. His career spans early-stage AR work at 6D.ai (acquired by Niantic), prototyping IoT and mixed-reality solutions at Schneider Electric, and evangelizing on-device ML SDKs at Argmax. Comfortable oscillating between hands-on coding, technical leadership, and cross-functional product strategy, Rik blends startup grit with experience at larger engineering organizations like AMD. An early educator in robotics and chess, he brings a knack for explaining complex systems and mentoring diverse teams.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of San FranciscoChemistry, Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (29)
apple-silicon9
text-to-speech9
speaker-diarization9
speech-to-text9
whisper9
speech9
swift9
macos8
inference8
ios8
transformers8
entity8
multicore7
ai7
unity3d7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
flashno/StackoverflowFaceDetect
Feb 2025 - Jul 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
arambarnett/gravitygaming-poc
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Gravity Gaming proof of concept repository
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 22 days
gravityproof-of-conceptgamegaming
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