Rishabh Poddar
CTO & Co-Founder at Opaque Systems
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishabh Poddar is a CTO and two-time co-founder with nine years of engineering and leadership experience building secure, developer-focused products from Berkeley. He helmed SuperTokens as co-founder and ex-CTO, contributing core backend work to an open-source Auth alternative and integrating authentication flows into high-profile projects like Next.js. Rishabh blends deep systems and security expertise with product instincts—his contributions fixed SSR and redirect edge cases in Next.js examples and hardened SuperTokens' core API and CI. Prior roles span research and engineering at Microsoft and IBM and a stint in management consulting, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and business fluency. He is a hands-on full-stack engineer who still ships side projects (trythis.app) while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Quick to bridge research and product, he focuses on making authentication and developer UX both robust and pleasantly simple.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (21)
ss10
javascript10
apidoc10
session-management10
server-side-rendering10
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
nextjs10
render10
java10
javas10
server-rendering10
api10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
supertokens/supertokens-core
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 releases, 864 reviews, 448 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rishabh appears to be a back-end developer, contributing to the core functionality of the SuperTokens authentication platform. The commits involve removing unnecessary options, fixing bugs, and implementing testing and CI/CD processes. The primary focus seems to be on improving the reliability and efficiency of the API.
email-password-loginsocial-loginkeycloakawsaws-auth
vercel/next.js
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
The React Framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 27 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Rishabh primarily contributed to the "with-supertokens" example within the Next.js repository. Their work involved integrating SuperTokens, a solution for authentication, into the example application. This includes implementing authentication flows, user session management, and integrating third-party authentication providers like Google, GitHub, and Apple. Furthermore, they addressed issues such as infinite redirect loops and improved the overall SSR (Server-Side Rendering) behavior of the application.
reactbrowserssgserver-renderingjavascript
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