Rish Shadra is a dual-major senior in Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science from RPI, now serving as a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI after five years as a Staff Software Engineer at Verkada. He brings 11 years of hands-on experience across IoT, hardware design, full-stack development, and machine learning, blending embedded systems sensibilities with cloud-scale product engineering. Based in California, he excels at moving projects from circuit and firmware prototyping to production web and AI services. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design that balances hardware constraints with scalable software architectures. His background uniquely positions him to bridge low-level engineering and applied ML in real-world IoT deployments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Hopkinton High School
Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Engineering / Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Engineering / Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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