Rishi Kundargi

San Francisco, CA

I'm a developer relations engineer and software engineer based in San Francisco. I studied Computer Science and Economics at UC Berkeley (GPA: 3.9), where I also competed on the Cal Ski Team at Nationals. I've worked across payments infrastructure at Coinbase, ML platform product management at Chime, and Android engineering at AWS. Currently at Chalk, working at the intersection of developer experience and production ML infrastructure. I also play a lot of poker.

Experience

Chalk

San Francisco, CA
Developer RelationsMarch 2026 – Present
  • Led go-to-market content for the Chalk Compute launch — launch page, technical documentation, and runnable examples to give developers a self-serve path from first touch to active use.
  • Authored technical thought-leadership content including deep-dive blogs on data drift and a public performance benchmark, establishing Chalk's voice on production ML infrastructure.
  • Built Chalk's competitive intelligence and social listening practice from scratch, mapping the feature platform landscape for internal GTM and product teams.

Coinbase

San Francisco, CA
Backend Software Engineer, PaymentsAug 2024 – Feb 2026
  • Resolved ~90% of incomplete payments (~500/month) and saved ~40 ops hours/month by replacing a manual credit process with an automated BAU-aligned reprocessing flow.
  • Eliminated ~$1.1B in monthly finance reconciliation breaks by implementing automated full-platform entries for funds moved manually.
  • Cut payment-rail onboarding time by ~10 eng weeks with a new extensible API primitive and redirect-payment workflows.
  • Reduced stuck-payment debugging time by 40% by emitting standardized status events across all payment rails.

Chime

San Francisco, CA
Product Management Intern, ML PlatformMay – Aug 2023
  • Spearheaded ROI tooling saving $400K/yr by identifying ML infra inefficiencies and driving data-backed cost reduction.
  • Managed cross-functional projects through user interviews, stakeholder alignment, and data analysis (Snowflake, Looker).
  • Standardized feature/model deprecation process, tripling usability and adoption.

Amazon Web Services

New York, NY
Software Development Engineer Intern, Wickr AndroidMay – Aug 2022
  • Designed and implemented live, in-line, scalable markdown rendering of text (Kotlin).
  • Collaborated with Design to create onscreen layout designs; ensured cross-platform consistency with a comprehensive suite of unit tests.

UC Berkeley EECS

Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Student Instructor — Designing Information SystemsJan 2021 – Dec 2022
  • Directed lab for 80 students per semester, adapting to varied strengths and managing 6 Academic Student Employees.

Education

University of California, Berkeley2024

B.S. Computer Science & Economics · GPA: 3.9

Cabin Manager, Cal Ski Team — competed at Nationals in 3 disciplines (team sponsored by Red Bull)