Summary
Rishabh Karajgi is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend-heavy products for high-growth companies, currently leading engineering at Astronomer. He combines hands-on expertise across Node.js, Python frameworks, distributed systems, and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) with a founder’s mindset from shipping his own end-to-end product. Comfortable across the stack—from React front-ends to Kafka-backed pipelines and low-latency architectures—he focuses on high-throughput, operationally resilient systems that serve millions of users. Rishabh is adept at stakeholder management and translating business needs into pragmatic technical roadmaps, a skill honed through roles from founding engineer to engineering manager. Fluent in five+ programming languages and AWS-certified, he brings both deep technical breadth and a communicative leadership style. Outside work his Github persona “Coke 'n Code” hints at a playful, hands-on approach to experimenting with tooling and practical solutions.
12 years of coding experience