Rishabh Manocha
Software Engineer at Rula
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishabh Manocha is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager with 16 years of experience building and scaling backend systems using Java, Python, DynamoDB, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. He has led and hired multicultural teams of 5–15 engineers across startups and major tech firms including Facebook, WhatsApp, Airbnb, and Upwork, and has co-founded a startup where he served as CTO. Rishabh blends hands-on backend development—evidenced by contributions to the widely used openstates scrapers—with strategic platform architecture work on distributed microservices. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he excels at translating product needs into reliable, high-throughput services and mentoring engineering leads to execute complex roadmaps. A practical polyglot, he pairs enterprise-scale system design with grassroots contributions to civic open source data collection.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Stackoverflow
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25answers
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Github Skills (16)
data-extraction10
e-government10
scraper10
g10
beautifulsoup10
html-parsing10
python10
open-government9
webscraping9
django-models6
django-forms6
django-views6
data-processing6
joomla6
overriding6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstates/openstates-scrapers
Mar 2010 - Apr 2010
source for Open States scrapers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Rishabh primarily contributed to the development of a scraper for the New Mexico legislature data, focusing on extracting legislator and bill information. They implemented functionalities to fetch data from web pages, parse HTML content, and structure the data into usable formats. The user also addressed code compatibility issues and enhanced the scraper's capabilities by adding document and sponsor retrieval for bills. Furthermore, the user enhanced the scraping process by fetching committee and bill data, expanding the scraper's data coverage.
scraperpythongovernmentscrapers
rmanocha/linear-nvim
May 2024 - May 2025
A NeoVim plugin to browse and create issues in your Linear workspace. Written in Lua
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year
luaneovim-pluginneovimneovim-lua
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