Rish Mandvikar
Lead Software Engineer at Starbucks
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolRish Mandvikar is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native APIs and platforms, currently driving Payments and Customer API engineering at Starbucks in the Greater Seattle area. He specializes in C#, .NET, REST, and Azure, and has rebuilt mission-critical Stored-Value Card APIs handling tens of millions of daily requests and processing millions in transactions per day. Known for pragmatic architecture and performance tuning, he cut average reload latency from 5.5s to under 4s and implemented resilience patterns like Polly, idempotency, and extensible test hooks for fault simulation. He authors open-source NuGet libraries used across teams, brings deep Elasticsearch and AWS/Service Fabric experience from prior roles, and mentors peers while owning operational reliability during critical incidents. His background combines rigorous CS training (M.S.) with a long track record of shipping scalable, production-grade systems and thoughtful engineering craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Southern Methodist UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (124)
transient10
fallback10
fault-tolerance10
polly10
azure-cosmos-db10
dotnet10
dir10
policies10
thread10
extension-methods10
fault10
csharp10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rmandvikar/feature-toggle
May 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:145 pushes, 24 branches, 121 tags in 3 years 8 months
rmandvikar/masking
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:36 pushes, 3 branches, 12 tags in 3 years 1 month
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