Rishhi Balakrishnan
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRishhi Balakrishnan is a software engineer based in Vancouver with four years of experience building distributed systems and real-time collaboration features. Currently at Microsoft, he works on CRDT-driven solutions within the widely used Fluid Framework, contributing to container state management, dependency fixes, and UX/documentation improvements. Previously he applied deep learning (ACRNN) and authentication unification at Harmari and gained early security experience at Symcor, giving him a practical blend of ML, security, and systems engineering. Comfortable across the full stack, he has a track record of refactoring complex codebases and shipping pragmatic fixes that improve reliability and developer experience.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Honors Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University
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Github Skills (10)
fluid-framework10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
realtime10
typescript-types10
collaboration9
build-tools8
documentation7
react5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/FluidFramework
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:282 reviews, 45 commits, 566 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rishhi primarily focused on refactoring and fixing issues within the Fluid Framework, particularly related to container state management and dependencies. Their commits included changes to connection state handling, removal of deprecated interfaces, and adjustments to the build process, including the addition of polyfills for URL and buffer packages. They also contributed to documentation updates for the FF.com site and addressed UI/UX issues.
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
RishhiB/FluidFramework
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Contributions:1 PR, 64 pushes, 21 branches in 1 month
distributedrealtimeweb-applicationswebsocketdistributed-systems
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