Machine learning project
Book Recommendation System
A recommendation engine shaped through exploratory data analysis and a mix of KNN, k-means clustering, and cosine similarity.
PythonEDAKNNk-meansCosine Similarity
every visit begins somewhere new
welcome from a sibling of stardust
A personal site about work, ideas, and the softer signals around both.
Rishi Palivela
Software engineer building thoughtful interfaces with space for wonder.
I am a software engineer drawn to interfaces that feel calm, resilient, and deeply usable. I like the place where product thinking, implementation detail, and human emotion all meet.
Ideas
Writing, notes, and thoughts still in motion.
March 2, 2026
writingpersonal websitereflection
A Room for Thought
Why I want my personal site to hold essays, unfinished questions, and signals from the work behind the work.
February 14, 2026
productengineeringdesign
What Makes a System Feel Kind
A few notes on usability, emotional texture, and why technical quality is often felt before it is seen.
Selected Work
A few places where product thinking and implementation meet.
Applied computer vision
Kushagra
A crop-disease diagnosis mobile app that uses image analysis to help farmers identify issues and get treatment guidance.
React NativeResNetMobile
Mobile product concept
EnSafe
A women’s safety app built around fast location and photo sharing through an NFC-powered interaction flow.
MapKitFirebaseXcodeiOS
Journey
From Hyderabad to Pennsylvania, still learning how to build things that feel calm and alive.
My career has moved through enterprise platforms, graduate school, and product engineering. The thread across all of it is simple: make complexity feel more human.
2024 — present
Software Engineer I
Building Vue-based healthcare product experiences at ZOLL Data Systems.
2022 — 2024
MS in Computer Science
West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
2021 — 2022
Application Developer
ServiceNow-focused product work at Accenture.
2017 — 2021
BTech in Computer Science
CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
Career, lightly held
The work is real. It just does not have to be the only story.
I currently work at ZOLL Data Systems on front-end product experiences, with earlier roots in ServiceNow development at Accenture and graduate work in computer science. This site keeps that journey visible without letting it flatten everything else.
Anchors
- Software Engineer IZOLL Data Systems
- Application DeveloperAccenture
- MS in Computer ScienceWest Chester University of Pennsylvania
- BTech in Computer ScienceCVR College of Engineering