About

Rishav Rastogi is an expert software engineer with over 9 years of experience in full-stack web development using Ruby and PHP. He is proficient in developing, deploying, and administering Linux-based operating systems and has extensive experience working with Amazon AWS and similar cloud-based technologies. Rishav has a strong background in TDD/BDD practices using TestUnit/RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara, and Selenium. He also has knowledge of scaling small and large websites using tools like New Relic, Zabbix, and Nagios, and is skilled in handling caching using Memcached, Redis, and NoSQL stores. He has experience scaling MySQL and has made several small open-source contributions in libraries like Subdomain-fu, Yii-Redis, and a now-defunct node real-time communication package. Rishav is also a co-maintainer of the Verification library for Rails and is amongst the top 3% contributors on Stackoverflow. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Pinterest, Rishav has previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer at Copper. At Copper, he led the Google Sync and G Suite Add-on team, where he took over existing integrations and maintained and optimized them. He also led a team of three engineers to replicate G Suite integrations for Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook Rest API, syncing Emails and Calendars. Rishav was also the GDPR (Right to be forgotten) Team Lead, where he worked with in-house counsel, privacy lawyers, and consultants to execute the "Right to be forgotten" portion of GDPR. Rishav has a strong educational background, having completed his Class 12th in Science with Informatics Practices from Dayawati Modi Academy and his Class 10 from Wynberg Allen Senior School. Overall, Rishav has 15.12 years of relevant experience and is highly skilled in software engineering, Redis, Ruby, AWS, web development, New Relic, Selenium, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, senior software engineering, and integration.