Rishabh Nambiar is a Senior Product Manager with 10 years of experience building and scaling community-focused software, currently leading product at Discourse from Mumbai. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the flagship open-source Discourse project—with product strategy and customer-facing roles spanning support and sales. His background ranges from backend internships to technical advocacy, giving him a rare empathy for both developer workflows and user needs. Rishabh also holds a graduate certificate in Technology and Policy from Takshashila, signaling an interest in how product decisions interact with broader policy and governance. Colleagues rely on him to translate deep technical fixes (e.g., multisite support, S3 and UX refinements) into polished product outcomes that strengthen community platforms.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Public Policy (Technology and Policy), Graduate Certificate in Public Policy (Technology and Policy) at The Takshashila Institution
School, School at Hiranandani Foundation School
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Bachelor of Technology (BTech) at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:13 reviews, 49 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Rishabh primarily contributed to bug fixes, feature enhancements, and refactoring efforts within the Discourse platform. Their work included addressing issues related to username handling, S3 configuration, and whitespace normalization. They also added functionality for multisite support and improved the user experience by whitelisting the `allowfullscreen` attribute for iframes. The commits show a mix of backend and frontend modifications, demonstrating a full-stack development skillset.
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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