Dear visitor,
Hello there.
It's so nice to finally meet you.
I'm sorry to hear that.
That's great—I'm so happy for you!
It's a fast moving world out there.
Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to
slow down?
To take a breather?
Me, too. In tech, it's too easy to get
bogged down with speed.
Constant iteration, Lighthouse results, Jira stats:
why?
What happened to storytelling?
What happened to the ideas behind the
façade?
This website isn't a duct-taped
resumé.
It's a world to discover.
Like the world we live in, there is often
more than meets the eye.
Welcome to my strange
home.
Welcome to rishi [dot] cx.
I'm
Rishi.
8 years ago, I awoke in a strange new world: I learned how to
code.
Web development in 2013 was a field fraught with
difficulty—documentation was almost nonexistent,
GitHub had barely gained traction, and AngularJS was seen as
the pinnacle of DX.
Programming was seen as a niche field; one where the
default experience was working in Big Tech, with no external supports
or interest from young people—it was isolating, to
say the least.
In 2018, all that changed: years after starting to code, I finally
found a community of people like me at
Hack the North. Hackathons fundamentally changed how I thought
about programming—it's not just a research field or a hobby, it's a
superpower.
Not long after that, I scored my first internship at a mid-stage
startup, won an incubation summit, and got
launched into the
hackerverse.
Today, I work on the tools and communities that I wish I had when I
was starting out all those years ago.
I hack.build things,
lead teams, and
think about the future.
I'm a software engineer—and hacker at heart—because I believe that
careful creation can lead to exponential ideation.
I write code so that the next generation of makers can do
it even better: transforming human capital into computational &
social capital is the throughline for
all my experiences: I'm
particularly proud of my work with
HN,
Idyllic,
Exercism, and
Legist. You can find the complete list of my projects over at my
GitHub.
You can find me at
@rishiosaur
on the rest of the Internet.
I'm most active on
Twitter and
GitHub.
You can find my digital garden at
posts.rishi.cx,
where I write about music, exponential tech, startups, and the
future that I'm building with friends across the
world.
I'm always open to chatting about new ideas—find my calendly at
z.rishi.cx/m.