Hello, I'm Hrishikesh. Software engineer based out of San Francisco with experience building full-stack applications and AI agents. Most recently, I built StrataLens AI, an equity research platform for financial analysts, conducting customer discovery with analysts at private equity and asset management firms. I'm now seeking engineering roles at high-growth companies.
On the side, I built a distributed web search engine in Rust, crawling 10M+ pages across 5 fault-tolerant instances with full-text search via Tantivy and BM25 ranking.
Previously, I was a core contributor to PySyft, one of the most widely used privacy-preserving machine learning libraries, and founding engineer at an Accel-backed startup in India. I recently completed my Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware with research in LLM code generation and hardware security.
I've been an active investor and trader in stock markets for 5–6 years, which sparked my interest in building tools for financial markets. I've experimented with various styles such as value, growth, and a blend of technical and fundamental analysis.
Grew up playing Project IGI. Leveling up to play Project AGI.