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Rishi Anand

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Director of Engineering at Spectro Cloud
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Rishi Anand is the Director of Engineering at Spectro Cloud, driving innovation in Agentic AI, Physical AI, and LLM-powered edge compute. A Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, colleagues describe him as highly technical, sincere, and innovative. He holds a Bachelor of Technology from UPES.

His academic work shows a deep-seated interest in creating practical, technology-driven solutions for everyday life. He has co-authored research papers on developing IoT-based smart parking systems and sustainable, energy-efficient applications for smart homes, reflecting a passion for efficiency and connectivity.

Unique fact: Rishi co-authored a research paper on a "Sustainable Energy Efficient Low Power Smart Home Application" aimed at reducing energy wastage in homes.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Rishi shows up

Demanding
Hard To Convince
Judgemental

They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value.

Priorities

Topics Rishi cares about

Agentic & Physical AI
His professional focus involves enabling Agentic and Physical AI across diverse sectors like robotics, retail, healthcare, and factories.
Edge Computing
He frequently discusses practical applications of edge AI, minimal OS footprints for edge devices, and managing Kubernetes at the edge.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Director of Engineering
Spectro Cloud
2-2025 - 2-2026
Senior Software Engineering Manager & AI Advocate
Spectro Cloud
3-2024 - 2-2025
Software Engineering Manager
Spectro Cloud
8-2023 - 2-2024
Principal Software Engineer
Spectro Cloud
8-2022 - 7-2023
Technical Lead
Spectro Cloud
In the press

Media appearances

Rishi Anand: Kubernetes insights, blogs & publications. Featured in Spectro Cloud Blog
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Education
2012 - 2016
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
UPES
2004 - 2009
Senior Secondary
D A V Public School, HFC Barauni, Begusarai
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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