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\n\nFounding Engineer at [Friendi.fi](https://friendi.fi)\n- Apr 2025 - current\n- San Francisco Bay Area, California\n- Engineering healthy relationships\n- Skills: Leadership, Agentic Automation, Generative AI, Python, JavaScript, React.js, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Cursor, Claude \n\n
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\n\nDigital Development Lead at [USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/author/ritom-gupta/)\n- Jan 2023 - May 2024\n- Los Angeles, California\n- Developing web and app features for a better student news experience.\n- Enabling Annenberg Media Centre's web team to get started on development projects using ArcXP, JavaScript for article pages, and Figma for design elements.\n- Skills: Arc XP, Communication, Figma, Leadership, Web Applications\n\n
\n\nCourse Producer at [USC Viterbi School of Engineering](https://viterbischool.usc.edu/)\n- Sep 2023 - Dec 2023\n- Los Angeles, California\n- For Databases - CSCI585\n\n
\n\n\nFounding Software Engineer at [GrowthX](https://growthx.club)\n- Dec 2021 - Jul 2022\n- Bengaluru, India\n- Built a social learning community tech for the top 1% founders & growth leaders.\n- As the founding engineer, I focused on a bunch of things:\n - Taking decisions on what tech stack we build on.\n - Defining the engineering org structure with founders.\n - Implementing engineering & development processes.\n - Building growth tools & the core platform experience across community, learning & upskilling functions.\n - Tech Stack: React, MongoDB, Node, Amplitude, Make.com, Zapier, Razorpay, and many more!\n- This involved working with cross-functional teams & learning those business pieces in the process, very new yet tremendously fun!\n- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Cloud Computing, Full-Stack Development, Leadership\n\n
\n\nWeb Developer at [LookUp Incubator Inc.](https://lookup.live)\n- Aug 2021 - Nov 2021\n- Oakland, California\n- Developed custom brand pages atop CMS technologies (Wix, Squarespace) to optimize for user interactions\n- Implemented Linktree-like social bio tool to increase domain visits & increase retention\n- Built a from-scratch Whova widget to showcase conference speakers on discovery pages\n- Worked on SEO optimizations for the LookUp homepage\n- Built community tools, widgets, engaged in conversations on tech life balance & mental wellbeing\n\n
\n\nSEO & Content Lead at [bitgrit Inc.](https://bitgrit.com)\n- May 2020 - Oct 2020\n- Tokyo, Japan\n- Developed strategies to increase website ranking, and attract engaging users\n- Created email campaign content, some resulting in highest open and click-through rates\n- Designed graphics for social posts\n- Tools used: Google Analytics, Webmaster, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Mailchimp\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n
\n\nTechnology Specialist at Skylark Automation\n- Jun 2020 - Sep 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Built backend systems for Skylark Group's web products\n- Designed templates for dynamic webpages\n- Strategized product addition mechanisms for site traffic\n- Deployed end-to-end hosting for technical assets\n- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, HTML\n\n
\n\n**Co-Founder** at [The SCRIPT Group](https://the-script-group.github.io)\n- Sep 2018 - Jun 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Created and led a community for college students to learn technology, conducting live workshops and coding contests\n- Oversaw club operations including events and necessary software\n- Developed media assets and creatives for early events\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n---\n\nACADEMIA\n#### Aug 2022 - May 2024\n- M.S. Computer Science, University of Southern California\n - Los Angeles, California\n\n#### May 2020 - May 2022\n- Paper on [Major Depressive Disorder Detection](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003227595-6/major-depressive-disorder-detection-monitoring-using-smart-wearable-devices-multi-feature-sensing-shamla-mantri-seema-nayak-ritom-gupta-pranav-bakre-pratik-gorade-vignesh-iyer)\n - Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare : Chapman and Hall/CRC\n\n#### Jul 2017 - Oct 2021\n- B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, MIT World Peace University\n - Pune, India\n\n---\n\nREADING \n \nI've been reading books ever since the wee age of 8. Only recently did I switch from fiction to business and history titles, something I never thought I'd do. The primary motivator was the dearth of insightful and comprehensive content available online on these topics.\n\nI'm currently reading / finished the following set:\n- The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust\n- Confessions of an Advertising Man\n- Magician of the Movies: The Life of Walt Disney\n- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies\n- An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California\n\n---\n\nWRITING \n \nI've written a few articles on my not-so-periodic newsletter. I try to write about topics which really helped me or really capture my intrigue. \n[Why recruiters don't find your LinkedIn profile](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-recruiters-dont-find-your-linkedin) \n[Why Threads by Meta is hot](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-threads-by-meta-is-hot) \n[Why the Apple Vision Pro is insane](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-the-apple-vision-pro-is-insane) \n[Gmail’s spam filters hurt indie email](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/gmails-spam-filters-hurt-independent) \n\nI also wrote a few short stories in the past, which I republished [here](/stories/)\n\n---\n\nPRESS \n \nFeatured in \n[YES! Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/yes-magazine-gen-z-big-tech) \n[Alternet.org](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/alternet-gen-z) \n[ZNetwork](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/znetwork-how-gen-z) \n[Spirit of Change Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/spirit-of-change-genz-big-tech) \n[USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/02/27/annenberg-media-launches-new-digital-app/) \n\n---\n\nCONTACT \n \n[X / TWITTER](https://go.rightonrittman.in/twitter) \n[LINKEDIN](https://go.rightonrittman.in/linkedin) \n[GITHUB](https://go.rightonrittman.in/github) \n[INSTAGRAM](https://go.rightonrittman.in/instagram) \n[SUBSTACK](https://substack.com/@rittmang) \n[CRUNCHBASE](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ritom-gupta) \n[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/user/ritomgupta) \n\n---\n\nRitom Gupta 2026\n"
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\n\nFounding Engineer at [Friendi.fi](https://friendi.fi)\n- Apr 2025 - current\n- San Francisco Bay Area, California\n- Engineering healthy relationships\n- Skills: Leadership, Agentic Automation, Generative AI, Python, JavaScript, React.js, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Cursor, Claude \n\n
\n\nSoftware + AI Engineer at [care.coach](https://care.coach)\n- Jun 2024 - Apr 2025\n- San Francisco Bay Area, California\n- Working on custom healthcare AI products and agents.\n- Advancing senior healthcare through technology\n- As an engineer, I focused on:\n - Building end-to-end protocol data measures\n - Implemented CV estimation\n - Improved ML model performance and generative AI summarization\n - Adding new features, product development & design, testing, and more.\n- Skills: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Android SDK, Android, Django, Python, OpenAI GPT\n\n
\n\nDigital Development Lead at [USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/author/ritom-gupta/)\n- Jan 2023 - May 2024\n- Los Angeles, California\n- Developing web and app features for a better student news experience.\n- Enabling Annenberg Media Centre's web team to get started on development projects using ArcXP, JavaScript for article pages, and Figma for design elements.\n- Skills: Arc XP, Communication, Figma, Leadership, Web Applications\n\n
\n\nCourse Producer at [USC Viterbi School of Engineering](https://viterbischool.usc.edu/)\n- Sep 2023 - Dec 2023\n- Los Angeles, California\n- For Databases - CSCI585\n\n
\n\n\nFounding Software Engineer at [GrowthX](https://growthx.club)\n- Dec 2021 - Jul 2022\n- Bengaluru, India\n- Built a social learning community tech for the top 1% founders & growth leaders.\n- As the founding engineer, I focused on a bunch of things:\n - Taking decisions on what tech stack we build on.\n - Defining the engineering org structure with founders.\n - Implementing engineering & development processes.\n - Building growth tools & the core platform experience across community, learning & upskilling functions.\n - Tech Stack: React, MongoDB, Node, Amplitude, Make.com, Zapier, Razorpay, and many more!\n- This involved working with cross-functional teams & learning those business pieces in the process, very new yet tremendously fun!\n- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Cloud Computing, Full-Stack Development, Leadership\n\n
\n\nWeb Developer at [LookUp Incubator Inc.](https://lookup.live)\n- Aug 2021 - Nov 2021\n- Oakland, California\n- Developed custom brand pages atop CMS technologies (Wix, Squarespace) to optimize for user interactions\n- Implemented Linktree-like social bio tool to increase domain visits & increase retention\n- Built a from-scratch Whova widget to showcase conference speakers on discovery pages\n- Worked on SEO optimizations for the LookUp homepage\n- Built community tools, widgets, engaged in conversations on tech life balance & mental wellbeing\n\n
\n\nSEO & Content Lead at [bitgrit Inc.](https://bitgrit.com)\n- May 2020 - Oct 2020\n- Tokyo, Japan\n- Developed strategies to increase website ranking, and attract engaging users\n- Created email campaign content, some resulting in highest open and click-through rates\n- Designed graphics for social posts\n- Tools used: Google Analytics, Webmaster, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Mailchimp\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n
\n\nTechnology Specialist at Skylark Automation\n- Jun 2020 - Sep 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Built backend systems for Skylark Group's web products\n- Designed templates for dynamic webpages\n- Strategized product addition mechanisms for site traffic\n- Deployed end-to-end hosting for technical assets\n- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, HTML\n\n
\n\n**Co-Founder** at [The SCRIPT Group](https://the-script-group.github.io)\n- Sep 2018 - Jun 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Created and led a community for college students to learn technology, conducting live workshops and coding contests\n- Oversaw club operations including events and necessary software\n- Developed media assets and creatives for early events\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n---\n\nACADEMIA\n#### Aug 2022 - May 2024\n- M.S. Computer Science, University of Southern California\n - Los Angeles, California\n\n#### May 2020 - May 2022\n- Paper on [Major Depressive Disorder Detection](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003227595-6/major-depressive-disorder-detection-monitoring-using-smart-wearable-devices-multi-feature-sensing-shamla-mantri-seema-nayak-ritom-gupta-pranav-bakre-pratik-gorade-vignesh-iyer)\n - Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare : Chapman and Hall/CRC\n\n#### Jul 2017 - Oct 2021\n- B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, MIT World Peace University\n - Pune, India\n\n---\n\nREADING \n \nI've been reading books ever since the wee age of 8. Only recently did I switch from fiction to business and history titles, something I never thought I'd do. The primary motivator was the dearth of insightful and comprehensive content available online on these topics.\n\nI'm currently reading / finished the following set:\n- The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust\n- Confessions of an Advertising Man\n- Magician of the Movies: The Life of Walt Disney\n- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies\n- An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California\n\n---\n\nWRITING \n \nI've written a few articles on my not-so-periodic newsletter. I try to write about topics which really helped me or really capture my intrigue. \n[Why recruiters don't find your LinkedIn profile](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-recruiters-dont-find-your-linkedin) \n[Why Threads by Meta is hot](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-threads-by-meta-is-hot) \n[Why the Apple Vision Pro is insane](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-the-apple-vision-pro-is-insane) \n[Gmail’s spam filters hurt indie email](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/gmails-spam-filters-hurt-independent) \n\nI also wrote a few short stories in the past, which I republished [here](/stories/)\n\n---\n\nPRESS \n \nFeatured in \n[YES! Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/yes-magazine-gen-z-big-tech) \n[Alternet.org](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/alternet-gen-z) \n[ZNetwork](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/znetwork-how-gen-z) \n[Spirit of Change Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/spirit-of-change-genz-big-tech) \n[USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/02/27/annenberg-media-launches-new-digital-app/) \n\n---\n\nCONTACT \n \n[X / TWITTER](https://go.rightonrittman.in/twitter) \n[LINKEDIN](https://go.rightonrittman.in/linkedin) \n[GITHUB](https://go.rightonrittman.in/github) \n[INSTAGRAM](https://go.rightonrittman.in/instagram) \n[SUBSTACK](https://substack.com/@rittmang) \n[CRUNCHBASE](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ritom-gupta) \n[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/user/ritomgupta) \n\n---\n\nRitom Gupta 2026\n"
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\n\nFounding Engineer at [Friendi.fi](https://friendi.fi)\n- Apr 2025 - current\n- San Francisco Bay Area, California\n- Engineering healthy relationships\n- Skills: Leadership, Agentic Automation, Generative AI, Python, JavaScript, React.js, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Cursor, Claude \n\n
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\n\nSEO & Content Lead at [bitgrit Inc.](https://bitgrit.com)\n- May 2020 - Oct 2020\n- Tokyo, Japan\n- Developed strategies to increase website ranking, and attract engaging users\n- Created email campaign content, some resulting in highest open and click-through rates\n- Designed graphics for social posts\n- Tools used: Google Analytics, Webmaster, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Mailchimp\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n
\n\nTechnology Specialist at Skylark Automation\n- Jun 2020 - Sep 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Built backend systems for Skylark Group's web products\n- Designed templates for dynamic webpages\n- Strategized product addition mechanisms for site traffic\n- Deployed end-to-end hosting for technical assets\n- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, HTML\n\n
\n\n**Co-Founder** at [The SCRIPT Group](https://the-script-group.github.io)\n- Sep 2018 - Jun 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Created and led a community for college students to learn technology, conducting live workshops and coding contests\n- Oversaw club operations including events and necessary software\n- Developed media assets and creatives for early events\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n---\n\nACADEMIA\n#### Aug 2022 - May 2024\n- M.S. Computer Science, University of Southern California\n - Los Angeles, California\n\n#### May 2020 - May 2022\n- Paper on [Major Depressive Disorder Detection](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003227595-6/major-depressive-disorder-detection-monitoring-using-smart-wearable-devices-multi-feature-sensing-shamla-mantri-seema-nayak-ritom-gupta-pranav-bakre-pratik-gorade-vignesh-iyer)\n - Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare : Chapman and Hall/CRC\n\n#### Jul 2017 - Oct 2021\n- B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, MIT World Peace University\n - Pune, India\n\n---\n\nREADING \n \nI've been reading books ever since the wee age of 8. Only recently did I switch from fiction to business and history titles, something I never thought I'd do. The primary motivator was the dearth of insightful and comprehensive content available online on these topics.\n\nI'm currently reading / finished the following set:\n- The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust\n- Confessions of an Advertising Man\n- Magician of the Movies: The Life of Walt Disney\n- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies\n- An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California\n\n---\n\nWRITING \n \nI've written a few articles on my not-so-periodic newsletter. I try to write about topics which really helped me or really capture my intrigue. \n[Why recruiters don't find your LinkedIn profile](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-recruiters-dont-find-your-linkedin) \n[Why Threads by Meta is hot](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-threads-by-meta-is-hot) \n[Why the Apple Vision Pro is insane](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-the-apple-vision-pro-is-insane) \n[Gmail’s spam filters hurt indie email](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/gmails-spam-filters-hurt-independent) \n\nI also wrote a few short stories in the past, which I republished [here](/stories/)\n\n---\n\nPRESS \n \nFeatured in \n[YES! Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/yes-magazine-gen-z-big-tech) \n[Alternet.org](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/alternet-gen-z) \n[ZNetwork](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/znetwork-how-gen-z) \n[Spirit of Change Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/spirit-of-change-genz-big-tech) \n[USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/02/27/annenberg-media-launches-new-digital-app/) \n\n---\n\nCONTACT \n \n[X / TWITTER](https://go.rightonrittman.in/twitter) \n[LINKEDIN](https://go.rightonrittman.in/linkedin) \n[GITHUB](https://go.rightonrittman.in/github) \n[INSTAGRAM](https://go.rightonrittman.in/instagram) \n[SUBSTACK](https://substack.com/@rittmang) \n[CRUNCHBASE](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ritom-gupta) \n[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/user/ritomgupta) \n\n---\n\nRitom Gupta 2026\n"
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\nI usually work on projects related to any or all of my 3 interests:\nbuilding tech products, enabling people interaction, or satisfying my own curiosity on a variety of topics.\n\n---\n\nWORK & EXPERIENCE\n
\n\nFounding Engineer at [Friendi.fi](https://friendi.fi)\n- Apr 2025 - current\n- San Francisco Bay Area, California\n- Engineering healthy relationships\n- Skills: Leadership, Agentic Automation, Generative AI, Python, JavaScript, React.js, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Cursor, Claude \n\n
\n\nSoftware + AI Engineer at [care.coach](https://care.coach)\n- Jun 2024 - Apr 2025\n- San Francisco Bay Area, California\n- Working on custom healthcare AI products and agents.\n- Advancing senior healthcare through technology\n- As an engineer, I focused on:\n - Building end-to-end protocol data measures\n - Implemented CV estimation\n - Improved ML model performance and generative AI summarization\n - Adding new features, product development & design, testing, and more.\n- Skills: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Android SDK, Android, Django, Python, OpenAI GPT\n\n
\n\nDigital Development Lead at [USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/author/ritom-gupta/)\n- Jan 2023 - May 2024\n- Los Angeles, California\n- Developing web and app features for a better student news experience.\n- Enabling Annenberg Media Centre's web team to get started on development projects using ArcXP, JavaScript for article pages, and Figma for design elements.\n- Skills: Arc XP, Communication, Figma, Leadership, Web Applications\n\n
\n\nCourse Producer at [USC Viterbi School of Engineering](https://viterbischool.usc.edu/)\n- Sep 2023 - Dec 2023\n- Los Angeles, California\n- For Databases - CSCI585\n\n
\n\n\nFounding Software Engineer at [GrowthX](https://growthx.club)\n- Dec 2021 - Jul 2022\n- Bengaluru, India\n- Built a social learning community tech for the top 1% founders & growth leaders.\n- As the founding engineer, I focused on a bunch of things:\n - Taking decisions on what tech stack we build on.\n - Defining the engineering org structure with founders.\n - Implementing engineering & development processes.\n - Building growth tools & the core platform experience across community, learning & upskilling functions.\n - Tech Stack: React, MongoDB, Node, Amplitude, Make.com, Zapier, Razorpay, and many more!\n- This involved working with cross-functional teams & learning those business pieces in the process, very new yet tremendously fun!\n- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Cloud Computing, Full-Stack Development, Leadership\n\n
\n\nWeb Developer at [LookUp Incubator Inc.](https://lookup.live)\n- Aug 2021 - Nov 2021\n- Oakland, California\n- Developed custom brand pages atop CMS technologies (Wix, Squarespace) to optimize for user interactions\n- Implemented Linktree-like social bio tool to increase domain visits & increase retention\n- Built a from-scratch Whova widget to showcase conference speakers on discovery pages\n- Worked on SEO optimizations for the LookUp homepage\n- Built community tools, widgets, engaged in conversations on tech life balance & mental wellbeing\n\n
\n\nSEO & Content Lead at [bitgrit Inc.](https://bitgrit.com)\n- May 2020 - Oct 2020\n- Tokyo, Japan\n- Developed strategies to increase website ranking, and attract engaging users\n- Created email campaign content, some resulting in highest open and click-through rates\n- Designed graphics for social posts\n- Tools used: Google Analytics, Webmaster, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Mailchimp\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n
\n\nTechnology Specialist at Skylark Automation\n- Jun 2020 - Sep 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Built backend systems for Skylark Group's web products\n- Designed templates for dynamic webpages\n- Strategized product addition mechanisms for site traffic\n- Deployed end-to-end hosting for technical assets\n- Skills: CSS, JavaScript, HTML\n\n
\n\n**Co-Founder** at [The SCRIPT Group](https://the-script-group.github.io)\n- Sep 2018 - Jun 2020\n- Pune, India\n- Created and led a community for college students to learn technology, conducting live workshops and coding contests\n- Oversaw club operations including events and necessary software\n- Developed media assets and creatives for early events\n- Skills: JavaScript\n\n---\n\nACADEMIA\n#### Aug 2022 - May 2024\n- M.S. Computer Science, University of Southern California\n - Los Angeles, California\n\n#### May 2020 - May 2022\n- Paper on [Major Depressive Disorder Detection](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003227595-6/major-depressive-disorder-detection-monitoring-using-smart-wearable-devices-multi-feature-sensing-shamla-mantri-seema-nayak-ritom-gupta-pranav-bakre-pratik-gorade-vignesh-iyer)\n - Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare : Chapman and Hall/CRC\n\n#### Jul 2017 - Oct 2021\n- B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, MIT World Peace University\n - Pune, India\n\n---\n\nREADING \n \nI've been reading books ever since the wee age of 8. Only recently did I switch from fiction to business and history titles, something I never thought I'd do. The primary motivator was the dearth of insightful and comprehensive content available online on these topics.\n\nI'm currently reading / finished the following set:\n- The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust\n- Confessions of an Advertising Man\n- Magician of the Movies: The Life of Walt Disney\n- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies\n- An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California\n\n---\n\nWRITING \n \nI've written a few articles on my not-so-periodic newsletter. I try to write about topics which really helped me or really capture my intrigue. \n[Why recruiters don't find your LinkedIn profile](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-recruiters-dont-find-your-linkedin) \n[Why Threads by Meta is hot](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-threads-by-meta-is-hot) \n[Why the Apple Vision Pro is insane](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/why-the-apple-vision-pro-is-insane) \n[Gmail’s spam filters hurt indie email](https://newsletter.rittmang.xyz/p/gmails-spam-filters-hurt-independent) \n\nI also wrote a few short stories in the past, which I republished [here](/stories/)\n\n---\n\nPRESS \n \nFeatured in \n[YES! Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/yes-magazine-gen-z-big-tech) \n[Alternet.org](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/alternet-gen-z) \n[ZNetwork](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/znetwork-how-gen-z) \n[Spirit of Change Magazine](https://go.rightonrittman.in/press/spirit-of-change-genz-big-tech) \n[USC Annenberg Media](https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/02/27/annenberg-media-launches-new-digital-app/) \n\n---\n\nCONTACT \n \n[X / TWITTER](https://go.rightonrittman.in/twitter) \n[LINKEDIN](https://go.rightonrittman.in/linkedin) \n[GITHUB](https://go.rightonrittman.in/github) \n[INSTAGRAM](https://go.rightonrittman.in/instagram) \n[SUBSTACK](https://substack.com/@rittmang) \n[CRUNCHBASE](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ritom-gupta) \n[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/user/ritomgupta) \n\n---\n\nRitom Gupta 2026\n"
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