# Rishi Goomar

> 👋 Hey! I’m a Chicago‑based Software Engineer driven by relentless curiosity and empathy 🤝. I love empowering people to spark fresh ideas and I’m always learning, both on and off the keyboard. 📚

Personal website and blog of Rishi Goomar, a Chicago-based Software Engineer.

## Writings

- [Building a Culture of Focus in a Distracted World](http://rishigoomar.com/building-a-culture-of-focus-in-a-distracted-world): We live in a world where constant connectivity has become the norm. Slack notifications, email pings, and calendar invites seem to multiply overnight.
- [Why You Should Add Indexes to Foreign Key Refs in PostgreSQL](http://rishigoomar.com/why-you-should-add-indexes-to-foreign-key-refs-in-postgresql): Overview When building a data model for PostgreSQL, you're more than likely to have foreign keys to define relationships between tables. When you have those foreign keys, one quick way to optimize your queries and allow them to be significantly faster is to index on those foreign key references.
- [Why Weekly Updates Matter (and How They Support Your Growth)](http://rishigoomar.com/why-weekly-updates-matter-and-how-they-support-your-growth): Weekly updates are a way to advocate for your work, track your growth, and surface impact that may otherwise go unnoticed.
- [Creating an Effective Technical Project Plan](http://rishigoomar.com/creating-an-effective-technical-project-plan): A step-by-step guide to creating an effective technical project plan
- [Overcoming Imposter Syndrome](http://rishigoomar.com/overcoming-imposter-syndrome): Imposter Syndrome is common in the world of software. I've experienced it over the years and have spoken to many that have felt the same way.
- [My Thoughts on a 4-day Work Week](http://rishigoomar.com/thoughts-on-a-4-day-work-week): There has been a growing interest in a 4-day work week. This goes against what has been "normal" since the industrial age.
- [Jumpstart Your Personal Transformation Through These 5 Books](http://rishigoomar.com/jumpstart-your-personal-transformation): These five books enabled me to establish a morning routine, meditation & exercise habits, improve my relationships, and improve my finances.
- [Do Not Disturb: Truly Disconnecting While Out of Office](http://rishigoomar.com/truly-disconnecting-while-ooo): Am I truly OOO and on vacation? If you’re still thinking about work, then the office has just moved from the physical to living in your head.
- [Gradle Composite Builds for Plugin Development & Debugging](http://rishigoomar.com/gradle-composite-builds): Gradle has recently released a feature called Composite Builds that we use to compose multiple projects.
- [The Half We Don't Measure](http://rishigoomar.com/the-half-we-dont-measure): Ask most companies how AI is going and you'll get a usage number back. Seats filled, tokens burned, percentage of engineers active in the tool, PRs opened. Those are all real numbers. What they don't tell you is whether any customer ended up better off.

## Projects

- [AWS Cost Comparison Tool](http://rishigoomar.com/projects/aws-cost-comparison-tool): A Go CLI that compares AWS service costs month over month and surfaces spending anomalies at a glance.
- [Hype Doc](http://rishigoomar.com/projects/hype-doc): A calm home for tracking your wins, personal and professional. Add to it from work, your AI tools, the web, or mobile.

## Pages

- [Elsewhere](http://rishigoomar.com/elsewhere)
- [Resume](http://rishigoomar.com/resume)
- [About](http://rishigoomar.com/about)

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