With over 25 years of experience, Rishi has led global software organizations in developing large-scale SaaS solutions and products across enterprise, e-commerce, digital industrial, and higher education domains. He possesses strong software design and architecture skills, coupled with extensive experience in working with customers, executive leadership, and business stakeholders to define roadmaps, product strategy, and organization design. Rishi has gained a global leadership perspective through his work across different cultures and geographies. He has demonstrated proficiency in Agile development and operational processes for building and maintaining robust systems. Rishi is deeply passionate about building high-performance organizations, leading with empathy, and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has also played a key role in organization integration activities.
Some of Rishi’s key accomplishments include:
- Leading global teams for the delivery of new capabilities and global features for Ellucian SaaS solutions, collaborating with stakeholders for solution delivery in EMEA and APAC.
- Driving over 50% headcount growth in Ellucian India Center of Excellence.
- Serving as a member of Ellucian’s global DEI Leadership Council.
- Acting as the Global Technology leader for GE Transportation (A Wabtec company) Digital Solutions businesses, leading teams across India, USA, and other geographies. He led the development, delivery, and support of multiple software products focused on the Rail ecosystem, including the EdgeLINC Industrial IoT solution.
- As Engineering leader for Amazon.in, Rishi built and led the core engineering team in Bangalore, driving features and initiatives across all areas, as well as introducing new capabilities like invite-based launches (OnePlus one, Micromax Yu).
- Leading the tech readiness initiative for Amazon.in’s first big peak period during Diwali 2014.
- Developing, deploying, and supporting one of Southeast Asia’s first WAP travel portals, available across 13 countries and reaching 130 million subscribers.
In addition to his professional achievements, Rishi is an experienced public speaker.