Rishi Sharma worked as an intern at Intel in 2011 and 2012 where he helped develop new indicator systems to track projects using a centralized database and dashboards. He also worked on virtualizing servers and syncing workstations. As a research assistant, he analyzed smart grid and power industry data. Previous jobs included work as a developer in India. Projects involved designing FIFO buffers in SystemVerilog, developing a PCI master/target handshake, and designing a parallel pipelined matrix multiplier.