Atherv Rishi

A.S. Electrical Engineering for Transfer, GPA 3.95

High School Diploma, Seal of Biliteracy

Mathematics coursework (Precalculus I and II) during high school

A recovery app for teenagers with eating disorders. Private by design, built solo. 15.5k lines of Swift, 208 tests, fully offline, plus the Next.js and Supabase waitlist site.

Stood up the CRM from scratch at a 16-person seed-stage AI security company: deal stages, qualification criteria, and the pipeline dashboard the founder reviews weekly. 20+ sales meetings covered.

Connected an agentic AI system to Google Workspace over OAuth 2.0, then wrote the success and failure criteria from 100+ conversation logs.

Resold DRAM, CPUs, and GPUs into demand spikes: $3,000+ revenue in the first six weeks at about 50% average ROI.

Taught 50+ students aged 6 to 15 in weekly classes for three years. Belt advancement was the honest measure.

Ran Instagram content strategy, A/B testing formats and adjusting cadence from the analytics.

Research-driven positions in aerospace, AI, and semiconductors, each tracked against a written thesis.

Breakfast service at HomeFirst Emergency Shelter, food distribution with the Muslim Community Association, and conference logistics at PayPal.

A GPS waypoint-guided model rocket. Flight computer, airframe, and control surfaces, all mine. Teensy 4.1, NEO-M9N GPS, C++, Altium Designer, Servos.

A 4-layer power board for battery gear that needs to actually turn off. Altium Designer, 4-layer PCB, MAX16150, TPS62162.

A local AI lab that routes between three models, fully offline, on a laptop's integrated GPU. Python, FastAPI, React, Ollama, LM Studio, Vulkan.

Two 6-DoF arms that follow your hands, about 10 ms end to end. Python, MediaPipe, C++, xArm 1S.

Eight servo-driven fins, a Kalman filter, and five-plus flights of learning. Arduino Nano BLE 33, MG90 servos, Fusion 360, C++.

A two-way-mirror display on a Raspberry Pi 4, in an enclosure I built. Raspberry Pi 4, Electron, Node.js, systemd, I2C.

Fifteen-plus parts, sourced and wired by hand, tuned until it flew clean. Betaflight, C++.

OLED animations and a NeoPixel, ported across two different ESP32 boards. ESP32, OLED, NeoPixel, C++.

Three desktops from part list to OS, plus a Pi-hole on the home network. PC hardware, NVMe, Pi-hole.

Honor society, De Anza College

Silver, for three years teaching Taekwondo

English and Spanish

TG Taekwondo, 7+ years of training

Arm (edX)

Arm (edX)

Cornell University (edX)

University of Colorado Boulder (Coursera)

Federal Aviation Administration

Google (Coursera)

Anthropic Education

Anthropic Education