Rishikesh S
Software Engineer

Rishikesh S.

I build reliable software from the first requirement to production. My work spans web applications, backend systems, data, payments, and automation. I also build the safeguards and recovery tools that keep products running.

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Work Experience

I work across the full product lifecycle: understanding the problem, designing the data, building the feature, testing it, shipping it, and supporting it in production.

Mar 2024 - Present

Software Engineer

Chatbyte GmbH · Remote

  • Deliver production features end to end across customer applications, internal tools, backend services, databases, and cloud jobs, from system design through testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
  • Replaced legacy consent records with a searchable event model using repeatable migrations, transactions, batching, duplicate prevention, exports, and recovery tools.
  • Built platform capabilities for AI-assisted onboarding, multilingual and voice workflows, and SMS messaging with delivery receipts, batching, and streaming.
  • Built internal administration and content tools, introduced materialized views for heavy queries, and shipped affiliate tracking across frontend and backend systems.
  • Built release safeguards with typed contracts, automated tests, CI/CD, feature flags, monitoring, and targeted repair tools.
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Bun
  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Redis
  • AWS Lambda
  • Stripe Connect
  • Trigger.dev
  • Remotion
  • Tinybird
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • GitHub Actions
  • Sentry
  • PostHog

Mar 2023 - Mar 2024

Freelance Software Developer

DevCrew · Coimbatore, India

  • Built responsive React interfaces and JavaScript features across client projects.
  • Improved load times and data-fetching efficiency by optimizing frontend code.
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • HTML & CSS
  • REST APIs

Work

Examples of production systems I have built and supported as part of company teams. Details are intentionally general because the work and source code are private.

Production automation

Automated media workflows

An event-driven production pipeline that combines AI APIs, voice generation, distributed video rendering, and scheduled publishing.

  • Orchestrated long-running jobs across Trigger.dev and AWS Lambda for AI generation, voice synthesis, Remotion rendering, cleanup, progress tracking, and publishing.
  • Integrated AI APIs and text-to-speech services behind validated, typed contracts so assets could be generated and rendered consistently.
  • Added test-render tools, deployment workflows, monitoring, retries, and recovery tooling for failed or partial jobs.
  • TypeScript
  • Remotion
  • Trigger.dev
  • AWS Lambda
  • AI APIs
  • Text-to-Speech

Regulated workflows

Employee insurance registration

A production registration system that turns complex employee data and insurer rules into traceable submissions across multiple delivery channels.

  • Designed connected workflows for employer forms, internal review tools, and provider-specific submission paths while keeping registration rules consistent across applications.
  • Built a shared pipeline for API, PDF, and CSV providers with validation, document generation, delivery records, and status handling.
  • Added German and English journeys, submission history, retry-safe delivery, artifact regeneration, and operator recovery tools for failed or partial submissions.
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Provider APIs
  • PDF & CSV
  • Playwright

Commerce platform

Online store and payments

A production commerce platform that handles store setup, connected payments, secure fulfillment, and seller operations for digital products.

  • Built configurable store themes, the public storefront, seller administration, and secure support tools.
  • Designed Stripe Connect checkout and retry-safe fulfillment to protect delivery during retries and interrupted purchases.
  • Added product analytics, feature flags, secure impersonation controls, and end-to-end test coverage in CI.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Stripe
  • PostgreSQL
  • Tinybird

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • C++

Applications

  • React
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Bun

Backend & data

  • API design
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Drizzle ORM
  • FastAPI
  • Spring Boot

Cloud & systems

  • AWS Lambda
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Serverless Framework
  • Background jobs

AI & automation

  • AI APIs
  • AI agents
  • RAG
  • Trigger.dev
  • Remotion
  • Text-to-Speech

Quality & delivery

  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • GitHub Actions
  • Sentry
  • PostHog
  • Tinybird

Hackathon Awards

Prodigi Cognizant Hackathon

Cognizant

NationalFeb 2023Second Runner-up

Cisco Thingqbator Hackathon

Cisco

NationalJan 2023First Runner-up

IEEE YESIST12 Hackathon

IEEE

InternationalSep 2022Second Place

Education & Leadership

Jun 2021 - Jun 2025

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology · Coimbatore, India

  • Served as President of the Department of Information Technology.
  • Represented the institution as a G20 student delegate.
  • Organized technical workshops and student events.
  • Represented the college at national and international hackathons, earning multiple awards.