Rishi Kumar
Embedded Software Engineer at Texas Instruments
Jharkhand, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Kumar is an Embedded Software Engineer with four years of hands-on experience building resilient systems and developer tooling, currently on the engineering team at Texas Instruments. He has a strong open-source footprint with sustained contributions to KDE, including a Google Summer of Code project that added Mastodon moderation tools (6k+ LOC) and CI-driven test automation for Tokodon. Rishi’s background spans low-level embedded work and cloud-native infrastructure—he engineered CI/CD and migration tooling at Galoy that reduced database upgrade downtime to under 10 minutes. Comfortable across C++/QML, Linux-based tooling, Terraform and Concourse, he also packaged a Nix Android development environment to shrink onboarding from hours to minutes. Based in Jharkhand and trained at IIIT Kalyani, he blends academic rigor with practical impact and a knack for making development workflows measurably faster.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PCM + CS, 94.2%, PCM + CS, 94.2% at Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Bokaro Steel CityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani
Github Skills (103)
devenv10
simplify10
linux10
developer-tools10
nixos9
mastodon9
nix9
zoho9
language-server-protocol9
terraform-module9
pipedrive9
searching9
docker9
refresh-token9
access-token9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
GDSC-IIIT-Kalyani/PaperVault
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
A website that stores previous year question papers and assignments. Also is used for storing data for the gymkhana.
Contributions:35 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
questionstoringgymkhanapreviousstores
IIITKalyaniFOSC/Hackathon-website-2023
Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
Repository for hackathon to be held
Contributions:18 PRs, 96 pushes, 19 branches in 6 months
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