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

Getting document extraction to work

Building an LLM pipeline that reads documents, and everything it took to make it hold up on files I didn't pick. Written in order, as I go.

  1. Overfitting by hand 17 Sep 2026  /  4 min
  2. The grunt work 18 Sep 2026  /  4 min
  3. Trust me, check me next

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