# Rishab Dalai

> Founding AI Product Engineer @ Lightfield

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rishabdalai

Casual AI / software engineer. Professional task-avoidance specialist.

## Work Experience
### Founding AI Product Engineer @ Lightfield
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
In Construction 🛠️

### Software Engineering Intern @ Aviatrix
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Worked on CoPilot, Aviatrix’s multi-cloud management interface for network observability.
- Negotiated between various engineering teams to develop critical user-facing software features.
- Developed internal TypeScript libraries for integration with the platform.

### Full-stack Developer @ Caritra
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Fremont, California, United States
- Created business dashboard, embedded widget, and customer checkout using React.js.
- Developed Node.js API’s related to business operations and checkout (utilizing Stripe).
- Spear-headed feature dev. based on customer feedback, leading to record revenue in 2023.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Business Performance Systems
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Developed ML pipeline using LLM’s and sentence embeddings to reduce transcripts into minute notes.
- Investigated academic research to identify dev. opportunities for ASTA's autonomous application testing.
- Implemented semantic ML based algorithm for identifying action space in application.
- Developed internal Python libraries allowing products to leverage ML services

### GS Software Team Lead @ UCI CubeSat
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Irvine, California, United States
- Led architectural changes of interface to communicate with cubesat.
- Dean’s Choice Award in the Samueli School of Engineering 2023 Annual Design Review (only 17 out of
188 teams received this award)
- Migrated dashboard to TypeScript and implemented CI/CD pipeline using Github actions.
- Updated React.js application to use Vite and back-end to use Express.js + Prisma to improve dev. pace.

### Software Developer Internship @ Briviant Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Irvine, California, United States
- Upgraded Recurly API from v2 to v3, enabling new product types and user features such as
Recurly Wallet and other payment tiers.
- Transitioned Express.js (JavaScript) to Nest.js (TypeScript), improving performance and stability.
- Set up Cypress (e2e) and Jasmine (integration) tests to validate user experience.

### Computer Science Lab Tutor @ UC Irvine
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Irvine, California, United States
Hosted lab sessions for Python and C++ courses for students in those classes. Provided feedback to professors for the purposes of course adjustment. Clarified key concepts for students and exposed them to additional material


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
UCLA

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
UC Irvine


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rishab-dalai-815a62167

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Last updated: 2026-04-05