Rishi Thakkar is a Computer Science student (minor in Entrepreneurship) at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO), graduating June 2028. Former AI Engineer Intern at AHEAD (June–August 2026), where he shipped a source-attributed RAG onboarding assistant for a municipal government and deployment workflows for models on RunAI-managed NVIDIA B300 clusters with KServe and Triton Inference Server. Previously Founding Software Engineer at Scoop and Co-founder & Lead Engineer of Vectr (seed grant from RedBrick VC). Technical Lead & President of CodeBox — Cal Poly's first student project accelerator, with two 50-person cohorts selected from 400+ applicants and five products that have reached 2,400+ registered users.
Skills: Python, TypeScript, Rust, SQL, KServe, Triton Inference Server, RunAI, Ollama, RAG, embedding pipelines, FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Neo4j, Prisma, Supabase, React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Tauri, SWC, ts-morph, WebAssembly, AWS (S3, Lambda), Docker, Linux, CI/CD, Git.
Projects: NextCanvas (drop-in Next.js visual editor built on a Rust/WebAssembly SWC plugin, 2,500+ downloads in its first month), Haggle (winner of the Sponge track at Y Combinator's Call My Agents Hackathon), Locus (100% local GraphRAG engine on Neo4j and Ollama), Assigned (internal operations platform used daily by 50+ CodeBox members).