Rishi Raj Jain is an experienced full-stack engineer and customer-facing technical lead with seven years building developer-centric products, docs, and migrations for startups and platform teams. He’s helped found and scale Solutions/Customer Success functions at Neon and Polar, led multi-TB database migrations and created repeatable migration tooling and demos for serverless Postgres. Equally comfortable in code and customer conversations, Rishi has shipped front-end and back-end contributions to notable open-source projects like Astro, Remotion and Trigger.dev—improving CLI automation, editor UX, and build/server bugs. At Lemon Squeezy he combined support throughput with practical automation, building a LangChain/FAISS assistant trained on product docs to speed technical responses. A former research contributor in multimodal AI, he pairs hands-on engineering with technical writing and community work, repeatedly turning complex infra problems into reproducible guides and examples. Based in India, he blends product empathy with a knack for automating maintenance and developer workflows that reduce operational toil.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
CBSE Class XII Boards, Mathematics and Computer Science, 96%, CBSE Class XII Boards, Mathematics and Computer Science, 96% at Mira Model Senior Secondary School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science And Design, 8.01, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science And Design, 8.01 at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Trigger.dev – open source background jobs and AI infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:9 reviews, 4 PRs, 56 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) functionality for the Trigger.dev project. They implemented a package update feature, allowing users to update their `@trigger.dev` packages within a project. Furthermore, they refactored the update process, incorporating `npm-check-updates` for more robust dependency management. This involved updating package.json files and reinstalling dependencies, demonstrating a focus on automating project maintenance tasks.
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 70 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily focused on implementing and integrating the `isMarkableVoid` feature within the `plate` rich-text editor, including modifications to core plugins. Their contributions involved adjustments to the `createInlineVoidPlugin` and `mention` plugins, updating interfaces and related files. The user also incorporated TailwindCSS classes and addressed build issues related to the project.
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