Backend engineer in Dallas, TX
I'm a software engineer in Dallas. I finished my M.S. in Computer Science at UT Dallas this year, and I like backend work. At Arkansas Blue Cross I'm an AI developer, building services that read documents with LLMs so people don't have to.
Outside work I go to the gym and build tools for myself, like a way to ask Claude about my workouts.
A Claude connector for my workout app
I log every workout in Hevy. hevy-mcp lets me ask Claude about them from my phone (volume per muscle, PRs, what I did last week) and have it build routines straight into the app.
TypeScript · Python · Cloudflare Workers · SQLite · OAuth
Flags deepfakes from a single reference photo of the person. 84% accuracy, under 3 seconds per item.
PyTorch · OpenCV
Sorted 30,000 tweets by sentiment and flagged bot-driven activity.
Python · Tableau
Building Python services that use LLMs to read incoming documents and pull out the information people used to type in by hand.
Built a Java automation system for Medicare claims pricing, projected to save ~10,000 manual hours a year. It's still in production.
Built Selenium regression tests in C# for payroll workflows, containerized with Docker.
Built and deployed a Flask web app on Linux with dynamic forms and email-based workflows.
The University of Texas at Dallas
M.S. & B.S. Computer Science
National Merit Scholar · CS² Honors
Send me a note here, or email rishik.kanchanapally@gmail.com.