Rishi Papani | Work
How I pay for hosting fees & sandwiches
We make the world's only year-long CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor), we're making the world's first transmitterless CGM (an implantable sensor), and we integrate with insulin pumps to make an artificial pancreas.
I work on the Algorithm team, we convert sensor data into an actual glucose number. I'm in charge of model deployment - i.e. converting a collection of Jupyter Notebooks and Matlab scripts into production code. I get to integrate these changes onto our firmware, and as of late our mobile app too. Additionally, I maintain a glucose simulation which we use to run experiments on changes to our calculation algorithm.
I also built a custom supply chain analysis tool for our ops + process eng team, this tracks every component of our sensors, transmitters, and even instruction booklets across the world and through every stage of manufacturing, warehousing, and sales. This inspired me to make an even better, Agent based version outside of work, something we grew to 20k ARR .
When I do get some downtime, I volunteer on our infrastructure + backend services teams, this means building data pipelines to collect the 100s of gigabytes daily that our 10s of thousands of users generate, as well as process them and make them readily available to the algorithm team to analyze.
When you're ready to track your glucose check us out.
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson. Similarly, everyone knows how to ship until they see scale, and Target had scale.
Retail giant, I got to intern on the backend for the stores team - mainly streamlining our returns process. I even got to add a screen to our registers! Turns out a rest API and react UI is a lot harder when you're not deploying on localhost.
Hanging out in Minneapolis was definitely the highlight of my summer, even though I lost a dollar in our mock self-checkout machine.
I also interned there the previous summer, working on the Data Engineering team was my first non-college work. Was super fun, I got to build monitoring and data validation systems for our payment data pipelines. Definitely a step up from just using print statements like I was used to.
I got to work with Hadoop, Spark, and loved functional programming in Scala (I'm a big fan of Haskell).