# Rishi Desai

> SWE @ TraceLink | MS Software Engineering @ NEU | Former SWE Intern @ TraceLink, Granite, Codeyoung, Unergia | MLH Fellow Summer '22 @ Solana Labs

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rishidesai

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ TraceLink
Jan 2025 – Present | Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Genmark AI
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Core engineer in building the MVP for an AI-based omnichannel agentic marketing platform

### Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Lead TA for INFO 6205 (Program Structure and Algorithms) under Prof. Chen-Hsiang (Jones) Yu

### Platform Engineer Intern @ TraceLink
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
TA for INFO 6205 (Program Structure and Algorithms) under Prof. Chen-Hsiang (Jones) Yu

### Software Engineer Co-op @ Granite Telecommunications
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
• Built RESTful APIs using Flask and frontend components using Next.js for EdgeBoot, a network management application. Developed features for device management, profiles, automated troubleshooting, downtime reduction & user management from scratch.
• Implemented customized fuzzy search and role based access. Fixed mission-critical bugs, created animations & graphs.
• Containerized and deployed the application using Docker and Kubernetes. Optimized resource utilization and load balancing in clusters to improve performance and reliability. Integrated AWS DynamoDB with the application and wrote migration scripts.
• Engineered an internal web-app that offers various tools for retrieving data such as bandwidth, performance and configuration on routers and networks used by Granite clients. Single-handedly built the user interface from scratch.
• Achieved a 65% improvement in response time by implementing a multithreaded and asynchronous solution.

### Open Source Software Engineering Fellow (MLH Fellowship) @ Solana Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote
• Built a platform that empowers Solana developers and their projects by allowing them to host grants that anyone in the community can contribute to. Contributions can be matched via matching funds along with a review process to identify potential fraud
• Used Rust with Anchor as the main framework to build smart contracts. Implemented escrow mechanisms for grant matching & money transfer.
• Integrated Arweave via the Bundlr network for storing secondary data. Built the user interface using Next.js, Typescript, and Tailwind

### Backend Developer Intern @ Codeyoung
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
• Created and extended RESTful APIs for a wide variety of areas like business workflows, mentor-student lifecycle, demos, lectures, authentication, etc. affecting users all across the globe. Wrote webhooks for integrating third-party platforms like Zoom & Leadsquared. Built test cases using Jest.
• Built the refunds feature integrated with Stripe & Razorpay. Automated certificate generation, E-mail & WhatsApp campaigns.
• Actively contributed to database design decisions along with query and API optimizations for increasing throughput. Decreased response time of mission-critical APIs by an average of 20%. Wrote data migrations and scripts.

### Software Developer Intern @ Unergia
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Developed features for Solar Ladder, a SaaS B2B platform for managing solar projects from start to finish along with maintenance and tracking. It is used by companies as a one-stop shop for all their solar needs and reduction of manual efforts.
• Wrote serverless cloud functions & cron jobs for auto-tracking of solar panel performance, integrated Razorpay with Firestore for payments, and built user-friendly dashboards. Automated generation of solar proposals according to custom requirements.

### Software Developer Intern @ Geekwork Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Single-handedly built a full-stack online grocery store in which store owners can link a Google spreadsheet in order to extract details and products from it for usage on the web application. Leveraged WhatsApp for placing final orders along with digital payment options.
• Contributed to a React Native mobile application with over 10000 lines of code. Built the front end for the transactions management screen.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Software Engineering Systems
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Engineering
Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-28