# Rishi W. > Hammerspace | ex-Twitter | CS @ Illinois Location: Cupertino, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rishiw ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Hammerspace Jan 2024 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Twitter Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States • Owned important data pipelines and web apps (Python, SQL, BigQuery, S3, Typescript, React) • Transformed Twitter's public dev portal around new paid API tiers (Javascript, React, Scala) • Created and launched in-app notification reaching tens of thousands of Twitter users and SMBs (Scala) • Led interviews and hiring, and then mentored new-hires to ensure successful onboarding • Consistently exceeded expectations, achieving highest possible rating in all performance reviews ### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitter Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States • Architected, implemented, and productionized new search tool (Elasticsearch, Scala, Typescript, React) • Wrote custom scoring algorithms to retrieve only the most relevant records for a user's search query • Presented my search tool to entire organization (100+ employees), which received great feedback • Organization adopted my search tool to search across all user, advertiser, and salesforce accounts • Enabled easy access to crucial information, improving organization's productivity and decision-making ### Software Engineer Intern @ ServiceNow Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California, United States • Main developer for identifying and predicting anomalous user behavior on ServiceNow instances • Wrote script that generates and injects anomalous behavior into security logs for ML training (Python) • Designed and implemented clustering algorithms to identify and summarize behavior patterns (Python) • Contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the ServiceNow codebase (Java, JavaScript) ### Software Engineer Intern @ Hammerspace Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Los Altos, California • Wrote script that quickly analyzes large log files, enabling 90% faster bug tracing (Bash) • Implemented unit and end-to-end automation tests for core features, ensuring robustness (Python) • Tested and proactively contributed numerous design ideas for GUI (most implemented or queued) ### Software Member of Midwest Hyperloop Team @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana, Illinois, United States • 1 of 19 teams selected internationally for the prestigious 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition • Coded pod's real-time physics model to calculate key motion metrics from parsed sensor data (C++) • Wrote simulator tests to ensure that pod would make safe decisions in vacuum tube (C++, googletest) ### Student Developer Attendee of Beaver Works Summer Institute @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, Massachusetts • Won 3rd place by making facial symmetry detector in Python for plastic surgeons, fashion/beauty, dentistry • Built a song recognition program (FFT Algorithm), person-identifier (pixel manipulation), poem generator, search engine, and self-clustering database of texts (NLP, web-scraping) • Implemented a simplified neural network + tensor autograd library to learn machine learning under the hood ### Research Assistant @ Santa Clara University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, California • Set up cloud servers using Dell VRTX server machine w/ VMware vSphere Hypervisor on Workstation 12 Pro • Graphed and analyzed data traffic between virtual machines on server to aid with research ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Monta Vista High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rishiwadhwa --- Source: https://flows.cv/rishiw JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rishiw/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30