CA Partner Homelab Tinkerer

CA. Rishabh Sharma.

I reconcile P&L, convince people to pay taxes, build local AI pipelines, and ask too many "why" questions. Sometimes the numbers make sense, sometimes I pretend they do and nod.

Taxes, audits, P&L, automation. Proxmox, Python, local AI.

01 / Summary

This page is a record. Not a pitch.

I am a 26 year old CA practicing in Guwahati, Assam.

I reconcile P&L, convince people to pay taxes, build local AI pipelines, and ask too many "why" questions. Somehow that took me from Goldman Sachs to a CA practice in Guwahati.

02 / Work

Serious work. Lightly held ego.

Employment

Mahendra Pareek & Co.

Guwahati

2021 – Present

Partner

2024 – Present

My dad's firm. Which means the expectations were either zero or infinite, never anything in between. Handle advisory, compliance, and the occasional client who still thinks GST is optional.

Article Assistant

2021 – 2022

Where I actually learned CA work — tax audits, GST filings, TDS, and clients with 100Cr+ turnovers who explained their "creative" accounting like it was completely normal.

Goldman Sachs

Industrial Trainee · Equities EMEA Product Control · Bengaluru

2022 – 2024

Cut a 30-hour monthly process to 2 hours. Closed 700+ dormant trading accounts. Managed P&L on derivative portfolios exceeding USD 300Mn. Did all of this before passing CA Finals.

2h 30h

The process improved. So did the intern's (mine) sleep schedule, allegedly.

Dormant accounts 700+

Nothing says junior analyst like cleaning up everyone's leftovers.

Words

ICAI Guwahati Branch Newsletter

2025

14 editions — 12 monthly plus 2 specials. Designed every one. Turns out CA content can have a personality if you let it.

EICASA Guwahati Newsletter

2025

Designed 12 editions running parallel to the branch newsletter. Yes, both at the same time.

Souvenir Co-Editor

2025

Co-editor for Crescendo, and editor for Parivriddhi and Lakshya. Herding contributors and their Word documents is its own kind of audit.

Also

ICAI Elocution · CA Mega Conference

Delhi · Guwahati

Represented Eastern Region at the National Talent Hunt Elocution in Delhi. Presented a paper on the ₹5 Trillion Economy at the CA Students' Mega Conference. Because didn't want to bury myself with articleship and classes.

03 / Systems

By day, I audit books. By night, I audit logs.

RishberryTV

2025 – Present

A private streaming server for friends and family. Request something, it appears. Don't ask how.

Uptime: waiting for status.json

Jellyfin · Sonarr · Radarr · Prowlarr · SABnzbd · Jellyseerr · Bazarr

Compass

2025 – Present

Personal finance and task management, self-hosted. Logs expenses via Telegram, manages todos, runs local AI, and backs itself up encrypted at 3AM without being asked.

Ollama · Gemma · Firefly III · Vikunja · PostgreSQL · python-telegram-bot · rclone

Patra

2025

Rent and lease agreement generator. 27 legal clauses, live rupee-to-words, PAN/Aadhaar/GSTIN validators, DOCX export. Single HTML file.

HTML · JavaScript · DOCX

rish.pw

2025 – Present

The site you are reading right now. Hand-written HTML, one small FastAPI service, and a payment page. No frameworks were harmed — none were used.

HTML · CSS · JavaScript · FastAPI · Nginx · Razorpay · Resend

print.rish.pw

2025 – Present · source

Instant 3D-printing quotes. Upload an STL, 3MF, OBJ, or AMF and every model is actually sliced with OrcaSlicer — no guessing. Out comes a live, itemised quote, a PDF, and a WhatsApp handoff.

Next.js · TypeScript · three.js · OrcaSlicer · BullMQ · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker

04 / Education

Credentials, since you asked.

ICAI

Chartered Accountancy · 2024

The one that took the longest, cost the most, and is somehow still the first thing anyone asks about at family gatherings.

Attempts

Classes

Sleep debt

Self doubt

St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

B.Com Hons · 2021 · Top 5%

Three years in Kolkata learning commerce, debating everything, and occasionally attending class.

IGNOU

M.Com, Accounting and Finance · Pursuing

Because apparently one postgraduate qualification wasn't enough of a conversation starter.

Also on record

2nd Best Presenter · ICAI Advanced MCS

Came second. The trophy is smaller but the story is better.

Anundoram Barooah Award

Chief Minister's award for Class X. The last time I was genuinely good at exams without questioning why.

Published · Youthink Legacy Vol. XIII

Wrote about the largest e-commerce deal for a peer-reviewed journal at 18. ISSN: 2347-6222. Still counts.

2347-6222

05 / CONTACT

Say hello. Or ask why.

Whether it's a compliance question, a systems conversation, or just someone who also thinks self-hosting is a personality trait — the inbox is open.

Sent. I'll get back to you.