Hi, I'm Rishabh Rao.

I'm a 23 year old engineer in Mumbai. I've been building things since I was 13, starting with custom kernels and ROMs for Android phones.

Most of it has been software. I rebuilt codedamn's online IDE from scratch to find out whether I could, custom DNS server and container orchestrator and all. They read the code and hired me, and I spent the next few years making it fast: Firecracker VMs, sub-second playground boots, and live streaming that served millions of people on Fermion, its B2B arm.

These days I'm a Software Engineer at invideo, working on agentic video. Increasingly I'm back on hardware in my own time too: a home lab, ESP32s and sensors wired around the flat, and fun little projects I build because I want to use them.