Rittika Adhikari is a software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building data infrastructure and distributed systems, currently working on Metronome at Stripe. She has deep Kafka and storage expertise from multiple roles at Confluent and hands-on experience deploying ML-powered systems from internships at Capital One and Uber. Her background blends rigorous CS training (MS and BS from UIUC) with research on interpretable machine learning and adversarial robustness, reflecting a strong grounding in both theory and production. A former course and infrastructure lead for large undergraduate CS classes, she also brings practical experience improving developer tooling and autograding systems. Active on GitHub and shaped by startup and research environments, she pairs curiosity about fast-moving tech with a record of shipping resilient backend systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Westford Academy
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mathematics, Mathematics at Harvard Extension School
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