Rishi Kant

Full Stack Developer

Hey, I'm Rishi, a full stack developer at AppX based in Noida, India 🇮🇳 where I build backend systems that hold up at scale, and the product interfaces that sit on top of them.

Experience

A short overview of where I've worked so far: mostly backend systems built to stay up under load, and the product interfaces sitting on top of them.

NOV 2025 – NOW

Full stack developer at AppX

Building applications and dashboards from the ground up for educators and creators, and the backend behind them, which serves 400 million requests a day with high availability.

2025

Open-source contributor at Twenty

Fixed UI bugs across the codebase, improving layout and responsiveness, and worked with the community to keep the design consistent across the platform.

Projects

Nocturn

A real-time quiz platform where players compete for on-chain rewards, with rooms synced over WebSockets and Redis Pub/Sub, and an orchestrator service driving question transitions.

Winterfell

An AI-powered platform for writing, testing and deploying Anchor smart contracts on Solana, straight from the browser. Won 1st place at the Superteam India Hackathon.

Skills

FRONTEND

ReactJS, NextJS, Recoil, Tailwind CSS

BACKEND

NodeJS, ExpressJS, WebSockets, Redis, Pub/Sub, Kafka

DEVOPS

Docker, Git, AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudFront), CI/CD, GitHub Actions, NginX

TOOLS

Linux, VSCode, GitHub, Postman

Extras

SUPERTEAM INDIA

1st place, Superteam India Hackathon

Won first prize for Winterfell. The product picked up real users after launch.

SPEAKER

Project vs Product Mindset

Ran a session on the difference between building a project and building a product: intent, user empathy, and thinking past the demo.