Hrishikesh Pardeshi

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded two successful startups.
Achieved $3 million annual revenue at Flexiple.
Innovated gamified learning with buildd.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech entrepreneur with strong software development expertise.

Contact

hrishikeshpardeshi@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentProduct Management

Other Skills

AlgorithmsC++Data StructuresHTMLProgramming

About

I began my career working for 3 years at Adobe and Amazon. I learned a lot but realised that: 1/ Big companies aren't for me 2/ I want to make money, but on my own terms I joined the top MBA school in India, IIM Ahmedabad, and immediately after, set out to buildd my own startup. That was the beginning of Flexiple - a 1-stop solution to hire dream developers for full-time or contract roles. Along with Flexiple, I’m also building buildd - the best and most fun way to learn a business skill for free. I love building businesses from first principles and side projects where I put my newly learnt skills to test. My goal is to buildd my companies to $100 million in revenue. My current results: → Flexiple: $3 million in annual revenue → buildd: 100,000+ downloads (to monetise soon) → Side projects: $250,000 in annual revenue

Experience

Buildd

Co-Founder

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

TL;DR: “The best & most fun way to learn a business skill for free.”
We love building companies and well, the entire world of business. buildd is just our way of expressing that love :P.
Learning has become boring and painful. That will be changed with buildd where you can learn any business skill as if you were playing a game.
GOAL
buildd’s goal is to help a million people each year with their learning goals. Soon, when people want to learn a skill, their friends will ask them whether they are going to “buildd it”.
METRICS
100,000+ downloads
1000+ hours of content
100s of gamified learning paths

Side projects

Co-Founder

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Remote

TL;DR: “Powering our dreams with ambitious side hustles”
The side projects started for fun & experimentally while we were trying to build our other companies. As we got better at certain skills such as content production, SEO and building products, we realized that these could actually be monetized and so we did!
GOAL
The goal in the short-term is to fund buildd with the money we make from these side projects. Long-term we want these side projects to be a way to hone certain skills of ours further and also as solid cash cows.
METRICS
1st Niche website: $180,000 (~INR 1.4 crores)
Private ads: $60,000 (~INR 50 lakhs)
Affiliate revenue: $12,000 (~INR 10 lakhs)

Flexiple

Co-Founder, CTO, Product Manager

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos · Remote

TL;DR: “Your 1-stop solution to hire dream developers for full-time or contract roles.”
Flexiple is the first company we set out to build. It has been a long journey of ~7 years where we began immediately after graduating from IIM Ahmedabad and have bootstrapped our company to $3 million in revenue.
The tech hiring industry is so complex and fun that we are still enjoying the process of continuously innovating to build a world-class talent-hiring solution.
GOAL
We spend every minute each day to build the best tech talent network in the world. We are & will be the best way for companies to hire dream developers for any type of role.
METRICS
$6 million talent payments
100,000+ engineers vetted
72 Hrs Average time-to-hire

Software DevelopmentProgrammingAlgorithmsData StructuresProduct Management

The boston consulting group

Summer Associate

Apr 2016 – Jun 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Awarded Pre-placement offer (PPO) in recognition of outstanding contribution during summer internship
Single-handedly drove to completion the growth strategy for one of four verticals ($20 mn revenue) for CSS Corp

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2014 – May 2015 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Impact
Resolved critical issues impacting 2 million+ sellers across Amazon Worldwide (Seller Identity Verification)
$500 million saved annually through fraud detection: Instrumental in building features for the product
Pitched the Rule Platform (RMP) to 9 clients, 100% adoption rate; Exceeded target by 80%
Leadership
Single point of contact for clients using RMP library across North America, Europe & Asia
Led & owned the project to improve rule life-cycle; resolved 14 issues (100% resolution) identified previously
Avoided 187 potential client issues by leading the project to improve user experience for the product

Software DevelopmentProgramming

Adobe

Software Research Development

Jul 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Research & develop solutions for challenges faced in existing products; Develop ideas for new products
Worked on all projects independently from conceptualisation/ideation phase through to implementation phase
Awards & Recognition
Patents: Filed three invention disclosures with the Adobe Patent Practice Group (Gesture recognition)
Youngest Innovator (three ideas selected on Edison – Internal Innovation Leaderboard)
Among top 2% (out of 2000) nominated for Young Engineer Award at Adobe (Youngest Nomination)
Awarded $1000 in recognition of the research paper ‘Heuristic-based approach to detect touch gestures’
Achievements
Conceptualized & implemented a solution to improve video quality in e-learning suite of products
Achieved theoretically perfect video quality at 20% less processing power & same memory usage

Software DevelopmentProgramming