Rishi Thakkar is a Computer Science student (minor in Entrepreneurship) at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO), graduating June 2028. AI Engineer Intern at AHEAD, 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 200+ applicants, 50+ admitted builders, and five products that reached 700+ registered users in their first week.
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).