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Ritom Gupta

Software Developer ↗

Los Angeles / San Francisco, California

Hey, I'm Ritom!

I create systems, tools and methods to help improve experiences 🌱


Prefer in-depth & precise insights?
Like functional tools & designs?
Love to enable people interactions?

I do too!


The best way to reach out to me is Twitter ↗ or LinkedIn ↗ DM. I might take some time to respond though!

Current Work ✏️

I usually work on projects related to any or all of my 3 interests above : building tech products, enabling people interaction, or satisying my own curiosity on a variety of topics.

  • I'm stealth-building an edu-travel product on the weekends.
  • I build web features on USC Annenberg Media's news site.
  • At USC, I study Multimedia Systems and Security Systems this semester (Fall '23).

4 other epic projects ↗

Past Work 🚀

May - Aug 2023
Software + AI Engineer at care.coach ↗

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Worked on custom healthcare AI model workflows and interactive agents.

Jan 2023 - current
Digital Development Lead at USC Annenberg Media ↗

Los Angeles, California

Developed web features over Arc XP CMS for a better news experience.

Dec - Jul 2022
Founding Software Engineer at GrowthX ↗

Bengaluru, India

Built a social learning community for the top 1% founders & growth leaders, as a full stack developer.

Aug - Nov 2021
Web Developer at LookUp Incubator Inc. ↗

Oakland, California

Built community tools, widgets, engaged in conversations on tech life balance & mental wellbeing.

May - Oct 2020
SEO & Content Lead at bitgrit Inc. ↗

Tokyo, Japan

Created email, social and SEO optimizations.

Jun - Sep 2020
Technology Specialist at Skylark Automation ↗

Pune, India

Built webpages and backend systems.

2018 - 2020
Co-Founder at The SCRIPT Group ↗

Pune, India

Created a community for college students to learn technology, conducting live workshops and coding contests.

Academia 🎓

2022 — 2024
M.S. Computer Science, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

Fight on, fellow Trojans ✌🏼
2020 — 2022
Paper on Major Depressive Disorder Detection ↗

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare : Chapman and Hall/CRC

2017 — 2021
B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, MIT World Peace University

Pune, India

Reading 📚

I've been reading books ever since the wee age of 8. Only recently did I switch from fiction to business and history titles, something I never thought I'd do. The primary motivator was the dearth of insightful and comprehensive content available online on these topics.


I'm currently reading the following set of books.

Writing ✍️

I've written a few articles on my not-so-periodic newsletter. I try to write about topics which really helped me or really capture my intrigue. Like these:

I also wrote a few short stories in the past, which I have republished here.

Questions 🧢

Here are a few questions I currently think of, in a rough sense and no particular order:

  • Can mega corporations co-exist with smaller competing enterprises?
  • Is AI (and by extension systems enabled by AI) fundamentally flawed? Why are some groups of people highly invested in it, and others completely detest it?
  • How do you ensure and validate trust in a service or product, even at scale?

Press 🗞️

Platforms ▲

X / Twitter
LinkedIn
GitHub
Instagram


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