Rishu Aggarwal

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

19 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Led the development of Salesforce Einstein AI Platform.
Expert in building high-performance, scalable AI platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Big Data expert with strong leadership in AI-driven product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningData EngineeringBig DataJavaProduct ManagementAgile MethodologiesUi DevelopmentCloud ServicesWeb Services

Other Skills

AI & Data PlatformAJAXAWSAWS BedrockAWS SagemakerAgileAgile coachingAngularAngularJSApache SparkArchitecture creationAssets ManagementBDDBusiness ForecastingC

About

Engineering leader with 19 years of experience and has lead the cutting edge products in companies like Salesforce, Vmware, Societe Generale in Machine Learning, Big data, Realtime data pipelines and Analytics applications. currently the Site Lead for Salesforce AI Platform, spearheading the Generative AI capabilities for Salesforce AI- I have built from ground zero, scale up and run the high-performance, greenfield teams across Salesforce, VMware, Societe Generale- Led the start-up products like VMware Skyline and Salesforce Einstein AI Platform from the initial conception stage to the design and development and till product maturity- Core Java programmer, RDBMS and NoSQL Databases, ML platforms like TensorFlow, Scikit learn, Big Data systems in Kafka, Solr and built Data pipelines and LakeHouses & Datalake using Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Hudi, Hadoop, Spark, HBase- Believes in Happy and Motivated teams, objectives will be achieved as such if team is taken care. - Partnering with Product Management, Program Management, UX, HR, Operations, Talent Acquisition, Marketing and Sales team to create India/Bangalore as major APAC hub for organizations - Customer meetings and supporting Marketing & Sales organizations to increase footprints of enterprise products

Experience

Salesforce

Director of Software Engineering

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru

Site Leader for the Salesforce AI Platform Engineering
Machine Learning | AWS Sagemaker | AWS Bedrock | Google GCP | Vertex.AI | Python | PySpark | Data Engineering | Kubernetes
Platform & foundational AI & Data services for Agentforce, flagship Agentic AI product suite for Salesforce
Building the next generation Salesforce AI platform which can process billions of transactions per day including generating inferencing at scale for Large Language Models for Generative.AI capabilities
Research new capabilities for Inference optimizations and build capabilities into the AI Platform
Building the Scalable, Highly Available and low latency services for Agentforce
Building AI Gateway services for processing billions transactions at scale, security, Trust and Rate Limit with multi modal support

Machine LearningAWS SagemakerAWS BedrockGoogle GCPVertex.AIPython+3

Vmware

2 roles

Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2020 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Skyline 2.0
Predictive Analytics | Big data | Machine Learning | AI & Data Platform
Building the next generation Skyline SaaS platform 2.0 in Java, ML, Microservices, Angular, Bigdata, Solr, MongoDB
Scales to 20k+ customers for Skyline with hundreds of billions events processing per day

Predictive AnalyticsBig DataMachine LearningAI & Data PlatformJavaMicroservices+3

Engineering Manager

Feb 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

VMware Skyline, Cloud Management BU
Proactive customer support | Virtualization | Machine learning | Big data | Predictive Analytics
VMware is transforming customer experience leveraging technology - Machine learning and Bigdata. Set up the 12-member development team from ground zero in VMware Bangalore of highly passionate, energetic and tech geek top class engineers to help revolutionise customer support from reactive to proactive. Skyline is a greenfield, next generation product, integrated with VMware major productlines like vSphere, vSAN, VMC. Skyline is one of the fastest growing SaaS services in VMware, to intelligently collect telemetry, configuration and logs data from customer environments and generate predictive analytics out of it to proactively identify/fix potential issues in data-centers.
Technology stack - Big-data, AI/ML, Java, Angular, MicroServices, REST, AWS, Solr, REDIS, MongoDB, MySQL, RabbitMQ

Proactive customer supportVirtualizationMachine LearningBig DataPredictive AnalyticsJava+8

Société générale

Senior Technical Lead

Jul 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Leading critical business applications development & strategic initiatives for state-of-the-art GBIS Datalake and Risk Analytics team co-located in Bangalore, Chicago and Paris.
Involves in Product Roadmap, Architecture creation
Providing leadership and mentoring to the team
Process streamlining, BDD/Agile coach, Technical Innovations
Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST Web services, Big Data technologies - Apache Spark, Hadoop/ Kafka, Hive, HBase, AngularJS, HTML5, Gemfire cache

Product RoadmapArchitecture creationLeadershipMentoringBDDAgile+13

Tangoe

Technical Lead

Feb 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Tangoe Matrix suite is a end-to-end solution for enterprises communication lifecycle management comprising Mobile Device Management, Assets Management, Expense Management, Business Forecasting to name few. Matrix is a SaaS and Cloud based solution, built on a new innovative software architecture through a single solution, Matrix enables organizations to turn-on, manage, secure and support various connections, while more effectively managing the strategy, risks, expense, productivity, visibility, and expanded potential of connections, and associated assets across the enterprise, and throughout the ecosystem (supply chain) including carriers, suppliers, partners and
customers.
Manages and lead 12 members product development team comprising senior developers, software engineers and interns. People management, coaching and mentoring
Involve in Product architecture, solution designing
Scrum Master and agile coach for 2 Scrum teams
Project management, planning, estimations and risk management
Coding, Designing and POCs for new technologies, framework enhancements

Mobile Device ManagementAssets ManagementExpense ManagementBusiness ForecastingProduct architectureSolution designing+8

Polycom

Senior Software Development Engineer

Nov 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

Doing Research and Development in Immersive TelePresence for UI technologies. Architecting, Designing and Development of UI for Polycom's Immersive telepresence suite in Java, Android and Cloud services
Design and develops Cloud based services for Conferencing data management
Design and develops intuitive Mobile based web application for cloud based HD Video conferencing
Scrum Master and leads product development team

Research and DevelopmentUI technologiesCloud servicesMobile based web applicationUI DevelopmentCloud Services

Intuit

Software Engineer-II

Jan 2009 – Nov 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Intuit - CustomerCentral Engineering team do data aggregation for various customer facing products Mint, Money Manager, FinanceWorks etc.
Design and Develop Intuit-PayPal web-services integration project
Architect and design web based solution for financial sites health data management
Developing scripts for covering 90% of Intuit's customers financial data scrapping for Intuit's Data aggregation engine

Data aggregationWeb-services integrationFinancial data managementData EngineeringWeb Services