Risheek Raj
Senior Data Engineer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRisheek Raj is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, resilient data platforms and end-to-end ingestion pipelines for enterprise customers. Currently driving data architecture and reusable patterns at GEICO, he leads design sessions, code reviews, and mentors engineers while focusing on performant ETL and distributed systems. Previously at IBM he implemented big-data solutions across Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Azure Data Factory and Snowflake, delivering streaming and batch ingestion with Java and Scala. He also contributes to open-source—helping improve the Android renderer and accessibility for Microsoft's widely used AdaptiveCards project—showing a knack for cross-stack problem solving beyond backend systems. With an MS in Information Technology and a background in electrical and communications engineering, he blends systems thinking with practical software craftsmanship. Colleagues describe him as a tech-forward engineer who experiments with new tools and consistently drives process and quality improvements.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at GITAM Deemed UniversityMaster of Science - MS Information Technology, Master of Science - MS Information Technology at Wilmington University
Github Skills (9)
adaptive-cards10
android10
java9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
accessibility9
uid9
javas9
kotlin8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AdaptiveCards
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 225 reviews, 176 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Risheek primarily contributed to the Android implementation of the Adaptive Cards project. They worked on features such as moving the importer to its own tab, allowing users to load sample JSONs, and supporting native styling for Action.ShowCard. They also refactored image-related methods and addressed accessibility issues within the Android rendering engine, ensuring proper focus management and handling of alt text. Furthermore, the user addressed the rendering of table elements with correct styling.
exchangeadaptiveioswpfadaptivecards
MeAdarshMishra/AdaptiveCards
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Contributions:10 commits in 6 days
exchangeandroidconsistentfor-developersflutter
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