Rishi Patidar

I'm Rishi, a software engineer at Zenskar. I work on backend infrastructure, keeping the product stable, and the customer side of things: product feedback, and understanding what people actually run into when they use what we build.

I'm not an expert. I write down what I learn as I go, usually after something has broken.

Writing, in progress

Evals in practice

Everything I'm learning trying to get an LLM document pipeline to hold up on documents I didn't pick. Written in order, as I go.

  1. It worked on every PDF we had 17 Sep 2026  /  4 min
  2. What we actually measured next

I post shorter things on X.