OpenAI
campus lead — student collective (inaugural cohort)
Sep 2026 - Jun 2027
- Selected as 1 of 140 students for the inaugural class of OpenAI Campus Leads.
- Hosting workshops, studio hours, and student showcases at Penn State.
hi i'm rishabh.
i'm an AI engineering student at penn state. this fall i'm joining the inaugural class of OpenAI Campus Leads, one of 140 students picked for the Student Collective. this past summer i worked on infrastructure and platform systems at Cisco in san francisco.
at Cisco, i extended the production simulator behind Nexus One — Hyperfabric. i built deterministic models of switches, servers, BMCs, firmware, optics, interfaces, counters, and Redfish sensors so production collection paths could be exercised before they touch hardware.
outside work, i build agent systems, developer tools, and research demos. lately that includes BYOA, a way for products to run isolated, user-authorized Codex agents in Cloudflare; intentfile, a tiny task-contract format; and Mandate Protocol, a way for agents to carry scoped permission when they act for someone. i'm also exploring LLM caching, an OCT imaging workflows, and tiny tools that should feel obvious once they exist.
want to talk? email . you can also find me on github, hugging face, linkedin, and twitter.
work.
the homepage version of the resume. the full version is on the experience page.
Cisco Nexus One — Hyperfabric
technical intern — ai infrastructure & platform systems
Jun 2026 - Sep 2026
- Extended the production infrastructure simulator across fabric switches, managed servers, and BMCs.
- Built deterministic, model-aware fixtures for firmware, optics, interfaces, counters, and Redfish sensors across production collection paths.
- Coordinated generic-server support across 7 engineers and used contract-tested AI-agent workstreams to cut the planned implementation timeline by 60%.
Mashreq Bank
ai/llm intern
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
- Built 3 internal AI products for code optimization, policy consistency, and document quality.
- Launched a unified MCP server and shipped an intern operations portal with React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.
TrendFlip
founder
Jan 2025 - Mar 2026
- Built AI-assisted sourcing and pricing workflows for collectible resale decisions.
- Scaled the operation to about $30K in annual revenue while keeping the workflow lightweight enough to run alongside school.
Perplexity
campus partner — product growth & gtm
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
- Built a campus UGC network and ran hands-on demos for students exploring AI search and Comet.
- Drove 250+ Comet browser downloads through outreach, events, and peer-led product education.
projects.
i try to keep the work visible. there are 36 public builds on the projects page: research labs, student utilities, developer tools, hackathon hardware, data APIs, and older experiments that still show the path.
Atrax - the agent-native cloud: tell your coding agent what to build — Atrax deploys the app, provisions its database, and shows exactly what is running ($20K funding – AWS credits).
BYOA - an open-source deployment kit that runs each user's Codex agent in an isolated Cloudflare sandbox, authorized through their own ChatGPT account.
NotionBench - a coding-agent benchmark for Notion's developer platform: 38 tasks, 890 program-graded rollouts across 8 agent configurations.
intentfile - a tiny open format for agent task contracts, acceptance criteria, permissions, and proof-of-done.
Mandate Protocol - a protocol for signed delegation between AI agents: scoped mandates, bound tokens, service metadata, and receipts.
mdbar - a macOS menu bar markdown notebook with daily notes, plain .md files, and a global shortcut.
Glance - a macOS screen-understanding SDK that reads app structure, labels, values, and exact coordinates for AI agents.
OCT Copilot Lab - a retinal OCT research demo for scan classification, Grad-CAM++ highlights, and structured draft reports.
PDFSpacer - a no-login PDF editor that adds blank space into worksheets, diagrams, and forms.
SharePen - an AI writing product i built, raised funding for, and sold.
more projects
Vrishn / Cache Atlas / MiniCache PyTorch / Canvas MCP for Poke / Text to Manim / 1000dates / Building Tools for Developers / Nova Home Assistant / Briefly / Centralized Prediction Market API / MCP House Assistant / AURA - Mental Health Chatbot / TrendFlip AI / Royale Recap / Cursor Prompt Enhancer / LinkScope / RishBOT / AI Code Debater / TOS Compliance Checker / AI Hackathon Judge / NittanyEats / JobSync.co / EcoPoints / Solana Marketplace / Hidaya Spirit Guide / Vynn AIO Content.
currently focused on infrastructure simulation and platform systems, plus user-owned agent runtimes, agent task contracts, LLM caching, medical imaging workflows, and small products that people can actually open.
p.s. if you want to contact me, .