Rishi Mukherjee
Principal Engineer at Sezzle
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Mukherjee is a Principal Engineer and angel investor with 14 years of hands-on software experience, best known for helping build Sezzle from an early engineering hire through to IPO. He’s a full-stack problem-solver comfortable across backends, frontends, mobile (iOS/Swift), and e-commerce integrations, who thrives on taking products from zero to one. Raised in Ranchi and self-taught in college, he brings deep technical curiosity and the discipline to dig into hard problems and ship reliable systems. As an investor he backs non-consensus, category-redefining founders with strong technical depth and founder obsession, and his portfolio includes multiple YC companies. He’s also contributed machine-vision improvements to the open-source SimpleCV project, adding useful streaming examples and tests that reflect his attention to practical, testable engineering. Rishi balances quiet, execution-focused engineering leadership with an appetite for high-risk, high-impact bets.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at West Bengal University of Technology, KolkataHigh School, All, High School, All at Surendranath Centenary School
Bengali, Hindi, English
Github Skills (7)
machine-vision10
computer-vision10
python10
image-processing10
machine-learning9
opencv9
testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sightmachine/SimpleCV
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
The Open Source Framework for Machine Vision
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:6 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Rishi's contributions focused on enhancing and refining the SimpleCV framework for machine vision. They added an example using a JpegStreamCamera, making it easier to incorporate live video streams. Furthermore, they addressed code style issues by refactoring code to be more pythonic and efficient. The user also made critical improvements to existing components, and created a test for featureset instances.
pytorchpythonvisiondeep-learningcomputer-vision
rishimukherjee/instamojo-wordpress-plugin
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 17 days
wordpressinstamojowordpress-pluginwordpress-blog
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