About

Ritesh Rastogi is a highly motivated and skilled software engineer with a passion for writing backend code. He is currently working as an SDE-1 at Direct-i (Zeta) and has previously worked as a backend SDE-Intern at ShareChat for approximately 7 months. Ritesh is a talented programmer who has been rated as an Expert on Codeforces and is a 5-star Coder at Codechef. He has also been to the ACM-ICPC regionals twice in 2019 and 2020. Ritesh is a Codechef Campus Chapter representative (Mentor) of his college where he takes classes and seminars to teach programming to students. He is certified on data structures and algorithms from Codechef (CCDSAP) and has also earned certifications from HackerRank on his problem-solving abilities. Ritesh has a strong educational background, having completed his Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology in 2022. He is a quick learner who is always looking to expand his knowledge and skills. Throughout his career, Ritesh has worked on various projects, including the profile-pic-labels feature used by over 3 Lakh people and the feature that allows users to pin posts on top at ShareChat. He has also worked on a feature to show follow suggestions to users based on their affinity and genre. Ritesh is a skilled software engineer with 1.20 years of relevant experience in Backend and Test. He loves designing systems that can work on scale and impact millions of users. Ritesh is a team player who works well with others and is always willing to lend a helping hand.