Rishichandra Wawhal
Risk Engineering at Stripe
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRishichandra Wawhal is a seasoned software engineer and risk-focused technologist with nine years of experience building cloud-native backends, real-time systems, and developer tooling from Bengaluru. Currently in Risk Engineering at Stripe, he pairs product-minded engineering with security and anti-fraud rigor to ensure payments reach the intended recipients. Previously he led engineering at Hasura—driving serverless Hasura Cloud and contributing to the federated supergraph and LSP—and has a track record of shipping UI and API improvements across high-profile open-source projects like Hasura’s GraphQL engine and tooling. He’s comfortable across the full stack, from React Native mobile auth flows and Apollo integrations to subscription support and GraphiQL enhancements, and emphasizes code quality with tests and refactors. Outside of work he balances technical depth with physical discipline—he builds reliable systems and lifts heavy things in the gym—reflecting a pragmatic, persistent approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Github Skills (36)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
subscribe10
user-interface10
wpgraphql10
android-developer10
uid10
front-end-development10
subscriber10
android10
wordpress-graphql10
android-developers10
mobile10
graphql10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
hasura/graphqurl
Jul 2018 - May 2021
curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL. Also a dead-simple universal javascript GraphQL client.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 49 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rishichandra implemented features related to subscriptions and made the query function reusable. They added test cases for the query function, demonstrating a focus on code quality. Furthermore, the user enhanced the project's functionality by adding GraphiQL support, including an API explorer, and improving the user interface and overall developer experience. This user also removed dependencies and refactored the code.
querygraphql-clientjavascriptsubscriptionsnetsuite
hasura/graphql-engine
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 214 commits, 173 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rishichandra primarily focused on console UI improvements and bug fixes. They addressed issues related to table modifications, ensuring proper functionality and UI consistency. The contributions involved significant interaction with the console's React components and API Explorer, with a focus on UI enhancements and fixing critical user-facing issues. In addition, the user made contributions to the actions functionalities like setting custom root field names.
realtimefine-grained-access-controlgraphql-serversql-serverhaskell
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