Rishwanth Ravikumar
Associate Director
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishwanth Ravikumar is an analytics-driven technology leader with nine years of experience blending product, data science, and operational delivery to solve complex regulated-business problems. Now an Associate Director at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, he has led cross-functional market research and data strategy initiatives that informed product launches, specialty pharmacy improvements, and novel service rollouts. Earlier, he built AML risk analytics and anomaly-detection capabilities at HSBC—authoring a paper that cut false alerts 40% and helping meet DOJ settlement requirements in high-inflation markets. He pairs an MBA from Carnegie Mellon with hands-on engineering contributions to well-known open-source digital forensics tools (SleuthKit/Autopsy), where he improved cross-platform compatibility and timeline functionality. Comfortable moving between vendor management, ML prototyping, and DevOps-focused code changes, he brings a rare mix of regulatory domain expertise and practical engineering chops.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Production Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Production Engineering at National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliMaster of Business Administration(MBA) Marketing Business Technologies Strategy, Master of Business Administration(MBA) Marketing Business Technologies Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Github Skills (14)
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build-automation9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sleuthkit/sleuthkit
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 50 PRs, 3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rishwanth primarily focused on modifying the codebase to improve cross-platform compatibility, specifically for both Linux and Windows environments. Their contributions included adapting database connection strings and file paths to function correctly across different operating systems. They also made adjustments to the build process and dependencies, introducing changes to configure files, build scripts and integrating testing frameworks.
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sleuthkit/autopsy
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory card.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 82 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rishwanth's commits primarily focus on modifying and extending the Autopsy digital forensics platform, specifically related to the "Timeline" functionality. Contributions include disabling Timeline functionality for Linux, modifying the look and feel for the Linux operating system, and adding settings to enable/disable Timeline feature in a property file. These changes suggest the user was working on platform compatibility and feature management. The user also worked on adding file chooser, and used try-catch methods for exception handling.
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