Rishav Kumar
Software Engineer at CodeNation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRishav Kumar is a software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable backend systems across startups and large tech companies, currently at Amazon and also contributing at CodeNation. His track record spans logistics and developer tooling roles at Cogoport and as a maintainer for the popular open-source linting project coala, where he improved result processing, testing utilities, and documentation to boost code quality and QA effectiveness. He has hands-on experience bridging development and QA, and has worked on ML-related tooling during a stint at GitMate, reflecting a capability to move between infrastructure, tooling, and applied ML contexts. Based in Bengaluru and educated at Jadavpur University, Rishav pairs pragmatic engineering with open-source stewardship, often focusing on maintainability and testability rather than just feature delivery.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Jadavpur University
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
test-integration10
test-unit10
unit-test10
python10
integration-testing10
testing10
refactor9
refactoring9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
coala/coala
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
coala provides a unified command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 19 PRs, 273 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rishav primarily contributed to improving the codebase's quality and maintainability. Their work involved simplifying existing result processing logic, refining documentation, and addressing reported issues. Additionally, the user enhanced testing by separating standard output and standard error streams within test utilities, which directly benefited the QA process. Furthermore, the user made improvements in the bear setting mechanism.
command-line-interfacelintingprogramming-languagepythoncode-analysis
aptrishu/aptrishu.github.io
Jun 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 41 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 4 months
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