Rishi Goomar
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Zapier
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Goomar is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and improving system performance at scale. He’s delivered measurable impact—leading PostgreSQL query optimizations, cutting API latency, and driving over $1M in annual AWS savings—while scaling and mentoring SRE teams from 2 to 12+. Comfortable as both an IC and manager, Rishi has modernized CI/CD with Terraform and ArgoCD, improved developer experience through TypeScript tooling work, and mitigated millions of malicious requests daily via sophisticated WAF/rate-limiting. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he’s updated documentation and tooling in well-known projects like Meteor and Nanobox, reflecting a focus on developer ergonomics as well as ops reliability. Based in Chicago, he advises startups on technical strategy and routinely blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership to turn performance problems into durable platform improvements.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Hack ReactorIllinois Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
bootstrap10
command-line-interface10
go10
front-end-development10
command-line10
bootstra10
lessc10
meteor10
documentation10
cli10
deploying9
dockers9
docker9
css9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Differential/meteor-boilerplate
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Boilerplate meteor app - starting point for meteor apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily worked on front-end and configuration aspects of the Meteor boilerplate. They fixed sign-in/sign-up pages, updated packages and fixed related errors. They also removed profile routes and updated Bootstrap and FontAwesome versions. Additionally, the user modified the LESS system and addressed pathing issues for font awesome icons, demonstrating a focus on UI and style management.
meteorboilerplatemeteor-appsstarting-pointpoint
nanobox-io/nanobox
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
The ideal platform for developers
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily focused on enhancing the Nanobox CLI, adding environment-specific options and features to various commands. They added hostname options, updated command usage documentation, and integrated environment variables for the "login" command. Furthermore, the user improved the "update" command by including version output and release notes, indicating involvement in the project's deployment and maintenance aspects.
golangreactdeploymentidealdocker
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