# Rishabh Bhaskaran

> Software Engineer - Backend/ML @ Whip Media Group | Ex-WalmartLabs
| Agents
| Java/Python
| Graphs

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rishabhbhaskaran

Building production grade AI systems. Expertise in large scale distributed systems. 

Highlights of recent work:

➡️ Building planning agents that suggest values based on historical data and user preferences keeping in mind custom evals and prompt management (LangGraph)

➡️ Built a modular E2E ML Pipeline: Designed a flexible ML pipeline based on FTI architecture facilitating  versioned deployments, auto-retrains, and online learning (PySpark, MLFlow)

➡️ Enhancing distributed, production-grade systems that process over $1B in transaction value.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Backend/ML @ Whip Media
Jan 2023 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States
Building *reliable* production-grade agentic systems focusing on: 

    - Performance optimization
    - prompt tuning/management
    - custom evals

Enhancing distributed, production-grade systems that process over $1B in transaction value.

### Graduate Student Researcher @ University of California, Davis
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Davis, California, United States
Community detection in time-dependent and multiplex networks | C-sharp 
• Developing a time-dependent modularity measure to improve community detection in international political
networks

### Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Davis
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Digital technology and social change | Computational Social Science

### Software Engineer III @ Walmart Labs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka
Tackled intriguing design challenges in large-scale distributed systems, sparking my passion for massively parallel computing and distributed technology. Designed an innovative business rule engine to manage Walmart's extensive if-then rule set, which had a significant impact and earned me considerable recognition. Additionally,  gained experience working with cross-functional teams and deepened my understanding of the Agile methodology. 
        
Won three hackathons, and was offered the opportunity to file a patent for one of my ideas.

### Software Engineer II @ Walmart Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | India


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Davis

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Vellore Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rishabhbhaskaran

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Last updated: 2026-04-10