Rishikesh Tirumalai
Founder & Strategic Partner
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishikesh Tirumalai is a founder and strategic partner based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building startups, engineering teams, and community-focused programs. He blends hands-on software engineering (React, Express, SQL, Python) with people-focused work—coaching, education, and designing partner programs—gained from early engineering roles at Substack and teaching leadership at Flatiron School. At Substack he was an early hire who not only shipped writer-facing product features but also shaped hiring, onboarding, and internship programs, and acted as a high-touch partner for top publications. His current venture, Emergence Wizard, continues that intersection of product, community, and alternative work models. Trained at MIT in Computer Science and Engineering, Rishikesh has a track record of making new things happen and prefers to create systems that scale both technically and socially. He brings a curious, multidisciplinary approach—equally comfortable in code, curriculum, or community-building.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNorth Brunswick Township High School
Tamil
Github Skills (6)
machine-learning3
ruby-on-rails2
activemodel2
ruby2
rails2
creative-commons2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-students/web-121117
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 2 months
cupofjoy/nyc-mhtn-web-042318
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
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