Rishi Kothari
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Kothari is a software engineer with a decade of experience building policy, simulation, and AI-infused systems for land development and consumer products. Currently working on Arterial, he focuses on policy and simulation software that helps land development firms model real-world constraints and outcomes. He has startup and founder experience as CTO/co-founder of Otto, where he applied data-driven approaches to personalized pet services, and has held engineering roles at Hack Club, BentoML, and Utopia Labs. His GitHub interests span policy, AI, and compilers, reflecting a blend of systems thinking and language-level tooling. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he studied Systems Design Engineering, bringing interdisciplinary design sensibilities to software problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who connects high-level policy questions to concrete simulation and compiler implementations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Design Engineering, Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
French, English
Github Skills (194)
appwrite10
dns10
markdown10
javascript10
cname10
in-progress10
dsa-algorithm10
nodejs10
mongodb10
tracks10
journal9
inquirer9
tinyurl9
slack-bot9
structures9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rishiosaur/teller
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
🏦 The money dispatcher for Hack Club. Interfaces with any HN-compliant API.
Contributions:62 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
apicompliantjavascriptadyentodoist
rishiosaur/w
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 89 pushes in 3 months
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