Rishi Dhupar
Senior Principal Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Dhupar is a Senior Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience designing high-performance networking, embedded, and distributed systems, currently leading advanced Zero Trust and edge networking initiatives at Akamai. He combines deep C/C++ systems expertise—authors of low-latency packet tunneling libraries and monitoring agents that run on hundreds of thousands of machines—with a track record in wireless power, FPGA-accelerated HFT platforms, and embedded Linux/kernel work. A hands-on architect and people leader, he repeatedly delivers prototypes to production on aggressive timelines and mentors teams through complex platform builds. Rishi favors simplicity and iterative delivery, framing long-term roadmaps while shipping practical controls, encryption, and connection migration features. He’s also quietly focused on performance tuning and protocol design, blending academic rigor from Northeastern with pragmatic engineering across enterprise and embedded domains.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Systems Engineering, Master of Science Computer Systems Engineering at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (167)
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javascript10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rishid/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jul 2026
My dot files
Contributions:3 reviews, 29 PRs, 297 pushes in 11 years 8 months
rishid/nix-config
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:152 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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