Rishav Rastogi
Staff Software Engineer at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRishav Rastogi is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently at Chime after impactful roles at Pinterest, Copper, and several startups. He brings deep full‑stack expertise in Ruby, PHP and Python, strong cloud and Linux ops skills, and a pragmatic focus on TDD/BDD and observability using tools like New Relic, Zabbix and Nagios. Rishav has led integration and sync initiatives (Google, Microsoft) and GDPR implementations, shepherding projects from POC to production and first paid customers. He founded and grew a successful product engineering shop, designing large-scale architectures, performance tooling and SLO-driven operational practices for high-traffic sites. An active open-source contributor and top 3% Stack Overflow contributor, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and technical leadership. Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with proven delivery of reliable, scalable systems.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Class 12th Science with Informatics Practices, Class 12th Science with Informatics Practices at Dayawati Modi AcademyB.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of TechnologyClass 10, Class 10 at Wynberg Allen Senior School
English, Hindi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
15,494reputation
1.2mreached
312answers
12questions
forms
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ruby
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testing
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routes
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ajax
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rspec
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Github Skills (31)
mvc10
rails10
trend10
ruby10
html10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
ajax9
forms9
rspec9
routes9
activerecord9
ruby-client7
nested6
macos6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rishav/priority-pan
May 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:12 commits in 18 days
rishav/bw-api
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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