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RITOM
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
I usually work on projects related to any or all of my 3 interests:
building tech products, enabling people interaction, or satisfying my own curiosity on a variety of topics.
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WORK & EXPERIENCE
Founding Engineer at [Friendi.fi](https://friendi.fi)
- Apr 2025 - current
- San Francisco Bay Area, California
- Engineering healthy relationships
- Skills: Leadership, Agentic Automation, Generative AI, Python, JavaScript, React.js, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Cursor, Claude
Software + AI Engineer at [care.coach](https://care.coach)
- Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
- San Francisco Bay Area, California
- Working on custom healthcare AI products and agents.
- Advancing senior healthcare through technology
- As an engineer, I focused on:
- Building end-to-end protocol data measures
- Implemented CV estimation
- Improved ML model performance and generative AI summarization
- Adding new features, product development & design, testing, and more.
- Skills: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Android SDK, Android, Django, Python, OpenAI GPT
Digital Development Lead at [USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/author/ritom-gupta/)
- Jan 2023 - May 2024
- Los Angeles, California
- Developing web and app features for a better student news experience.
- Enabling Annenberg Media Centre's web team to get started on development projects using ArcXP, JavaScript for article pages, and Figma for design elements.
- Skills: Arc XP, Communication, Figma, Leadership, Web Applications
Course Producer at [USC Viterbi School of Engineering](https://viterbischool.usc.edu/)
- Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
- Los Angeles, California
- For Databases - CSCI585
Founding Software Engineer at [GrowthX](https://growthx.club)
- Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
- Bengaluru, India
- Built a social learning community tech for the top 1% founders & growth leaders.
- As the founding engineer, I focused on a bunch of things:
- Taking decisions on what tech stack we build on.
- Defining the engineering org structure with founders.
- Implementing engineering & development processes.
- Building growth tools & the core platform experience across community, learning & upskilling functions.
- Tech Stack: React, MongoDB, Node, Amplitude, Make.com, Zapier, Razorpay, and many more!
- This involved working with cross-functional teams & learning those business pieces in the process, very new yet tremendously fun!
- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Cloud Computing, Full-Stack Development, Leadership
Web Developer at [LookUp Incubator Inc.](https://lookup.live)
- Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
- Oakland, California
- Developed custom brand pages atop CMS technologies (Wix, Squarespace) to optimize for user interactions
- Implemented Linktree-like social bio tool to increase domain visits & increase retention
- Built a from-scratch Whova widget to showcase conference speakers on discovery pages
- Worked on SEO optimizations for the LookUp homepage
- Built community tools, widgets, engaged in conversations on tech life balance & mental wellbeing
SEO & Content Lead at [bitgrit Inc.](https://bitgrit.com)
- May 2020 - Oct 2020
- Tokyo, Japan
- Developed strategies to increase website ranking, and attract engaging users
- Created email campaign content, some resulting in highest open and click-through rates
- Designed graphics for social posts
- Tools used: Google Analytics, Webmaster, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Mailchimp
- Skills: JavaScript
Technology Specialist at Skylark Automation
- Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
- Pune, India
- Built backend systems for Skylark Group's web products
- Designed templates for dynamic webpages
- Strategized product addition mechanisms for site traffic
- Deployed end-to-end hosting for technical assets
- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, HTML
**Co-Founder** at [The SCRIPT Group](https://the-script-group.github.io)
- Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
- Pune, India
- Created and led a community for college students to learn technology, conducting live workshops and coding contests
- Oversaw club operations including events and necessary software
- Developed media assets and creatives for early events
- Skills: JavaScript
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ACADEMIA
#### Aug 2022 - May 2024
- M.S. Computer Science, University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, California
#### May 2020 - May 2022
- Paper on [Major Depressive Disorder Detection](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003227595-6/major-depressive-disorder-detection-monitoring-using-smart-wearable-devices-multi-feature-sensing-shamla-mantri-seema-nayak-ritom-gupta-pranav-bakre-pratik-gorade-vignesh-iyer)
- Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare : Chapman and Hall/CRC
#### Jul 2017 - Oct 2021
- B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, MIT World Peace University
- Pune, India
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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 / finished the following set:
- The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust
- Confessions of an Advertising Man
- Magician of the Movies: The Life of Walt Disney
- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
- An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California
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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.
[Why recruiters don't find your LinkedIn profile](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-recruiters-dont-find-your-linkedin)
[Why Threads by Meta is hot](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-threads-by-meta-is-hot)
[Why the Apple Vision Pro is insane](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-the-apple-vision-pro-is-insane)
[Gmail’s spam filters hurt indie email](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/gmails-spam-filters-hurt-independent)
I also wrote a few short stories in the past, which I republished [here](/stories/)
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PRESS
Featured in
[YES! Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/yes-magazine-gen-z-big-tech)
[Alternet.org](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/alternet-gen-z)
[ZNetwork](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/znetwork-how-gen-z)
[Spirit of Change Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/spirit-of-change-genz-big-tech)
[USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/02/27/annenberg-media-launches-new-digital-app/)
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CONTACT
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[INSTAGRAM](https://go.rightonrittman.in/instagram)
[SUBSTACK](https://substack.com/@rittmang)
[CRUNCHBASE](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ritom-gupta)
[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/user/ritomgupta)
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Ritom Gupta 2026