Hey, I'm Rishav! 👋

I'm a software engineer in Austin, TX, currently at Visa building real-time alert resolution and notification systems for on-call teams, AI agents that automatically detect problems across server fleets, and observability infrastructure with ClickHouse and Kafka — all so production incidents get caught and resolved before customers feel them.

I also write about software engineering, system design, and personal finance — because nobody teaches you how money works in a CS degree, and they really should.

This is my little corner of the internet. Everything here is written by me. 🌱

Rishav Kumar

About Me

I'm Rishav, a software engineer and the person behind this blog. I grew up in India, moved to the US for college, and have been building things at Visa ever since graduating. I write about tech and money.

MS & BS in Computer Science from Arizona State University (Graduated 2024). Dean's List, Apple WWDC Scholar (2019, 2020), TEDx Speaker.

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Senior Software Engineer
Visa · Austin, TX · 2024 – Present
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MS & BS, Computer Science
Arizona State University · Graduated 2024

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Senior SWE @ Visa, Austin TX
Building real-time incident alerting & resolution systems
AI agents for automated server health checks
Writing about systems, finance & tech

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Thoughts on software engineering, distributed systems, and personal finance.

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