Kartikay Sharma

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Built one of India's largest developer communities.
  • Mentored over 25 entrepreneurs across 10 countries.
  • Executed multiple community growth initiatives successfully.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Community and Growth Manager in the Tech and Education sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Community ManagementProgram ManagementMentorshipPublic Speaking

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsArtificial IntelligenceBusiness AnalyticsBusiness Intelligence (BI)Community BuildingCommunity EngagementCommunity OutreachCreative Problem SolvingData AnalysisData AnalyticsDeep LearningDeveloper RelationsEntrepreneurshipEvent ManagementEvent Planning

About

๐Ÿ‘‹ Hey there! I'm a community and growth manager, and I believe the best way to predict the future is to create it! ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿš€ Currently, I'm busy building and growing communities at Airtribe, focused on the Tech, Product, Design, and Marketing domains. I'm constantly seeking ways to contribute to the company's growth and foster community and cohort expansion. ๐Ÿ”ฅ In my previous role, I headed the Forever Community at Scaler & InterviewBit.com. I built, engaged, and retained one of India's largest Dev communities across Engineering, Management (Engineering), and Product domains. I was also responsible for paid user engagement for Scaler Academy's flagship courses. ๐Ÿคฉ Let's chat about Product, Community, and Growth Strategy! I'm always excited to discuss new ideas and build products that serve the community and humanity. โญ๏ธ In my free time, I mentor budding entrepreneurs at ADPList and Mentor for Change under the Atal Innovation Mission (NITI Aayog). ๐Ÿ˜ I'm an enthusiastic and creative thinker, skilled in managing projects from inception to completion. My ability to motivate, excite, and keep team members focused, along with my event management, time management, and PR skills, make me an asset to any team. ๐Ÿš€ Let's connect and explore how we can create a better future together!

Experience

Elastic

Community Programs Specialist (APJ)

Aug 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 7 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ยท Hybrid

Program ManagementCommunity EngagementCommunity BuildingDeveloper RelationsEvent ManagementEvent Planning+1

Outsystems

Developer Community & Growth Programs (APAC)

Sep 2023 โ€“ Jun 2025 ยท 1 yr 9 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ยท Hybrid

Flow blockchain

Buidling - Flow India Community

Apr 2023 โ€“ Oct 2024 ยท 1 yr 6 mos ยท Remote

Community ManagementDeveloper RelationsKey Performance IndicatorsPresentationsPublic Speaking

0xhash

Building Hash Blocks

Nov 2022 โ€“ Feb 2024 ยท 1 yr 3 mos ยท India

Key Performance IndicatorsPublic Speaking

Airtribe

Founding Member (Community & Growth)

Jul 2022 โ€“ Sep 2023 ยท 1 yr 2 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Responsible for executing initiatives to build top-funnel leads.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Owner of multiple community-growth initiatives like Expert talks and many more.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Owner of all kinds of IRL networking events and meet-ups.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Leading multiple cohort communities with significant growth in activation and retention.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Responsible for user engagement, retention and activation, including paid+free communities.
Community ManagementDeveloper RelationsKey Performance IndicatorsPresentationsPublic Speaking

Niti aayog

Mentor for Change

Mar 2022 โ€“ May 2025 ยท 3 yrs 2 mos

  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Mentoring budding entrepreneurs to build scalable products
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Mentoring them on the 0 to 1 journey of a product. How to get the first 1000 users to your product.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Working closely with the Govt. of India (the NITI Aayog team) to bring more and more start-ups out of college students.
PresentationsPublic SpeakingMentorship

Scaler

3 roles

Developer Community (Internal)

Feb 2022 โ€“ Jul 2022 ยท 5 mos

  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Understanding user persona & helping them with suitable content for
  • engagement and improving user exp. for learners.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Getting scalable ideas to productise for a better and consistent experience.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Creating multiple engagement events and tracking the success points
  • and documentation.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Majorly focusing on Community engagement and retention.
Community ManagementDeveloper RelationsKey Performance IndicatorsPresentationsPublic Speaking

Developer Community (Product: Forever)

Promoted

Sep 2021 โ€“ Feb 2022 ยท 5 mos

  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป I Head - Forever Developer Community at Scaler Academy by InterviewBit, under the umbrella of Scaler Forever.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป I build Tech Tales from the ground. Tech Tales by Scaler Forever is a weekly event featuring the who's who of the tech world narrating their journeys and learnings for our community of developers, where we host tech leaders, influencers, problem solvers and enthusiasts.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป In the past five months, we have successfully hosted 17 events and were able to get 15K+ unique registrants. The speakers for these events were Principal Engineer, Vice President of AI, Engineering Manager, CEO's, Founder and Senior Product Manager etc., from companies like Microsoft, Razorpay, Unacademy, and Byjus.
Community ManagementDeveloper RelationsKey Performance IndicatorsPresentationsPublic Speaking

Operations Associate

May 2021 โ€“ Sep 2021 ยท 4 mos

Key Performance IndicatorsPresentations

Adplist.org

Mentor

Jun 2021 โ€“ Present ยท 4 yrs 9 mos ยท India

  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป I have mentored over 25+ mentees across 10 countries.
  • ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป I enjoy discussing Product, Community, Growth Strategy and Startups.
Public SpeakingMentorship

Alphaa ai

Fellowship

Oct 2020 โ€“ Jan 2021 ยท 3 mos ยท Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Analogica software dev pvt ltd

Machine Learning Researcher

Jan 2020 โ€“ May 2020 ยท 4 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • At Analogica Software Development Pvt. Ltd. I have closely worked with the team of Machine Learning Engineers and Data Development team. I also contributed as a content developer and technical writer for python and machine learning algorithms.
  • > I worked on the implementation of various machine learning algorithms on the product developing in the company. I worked on regression as well as classification algorithms.
  • > While working with the data development team, my task was to download the required dataset, in the case if the dataset is not available the I had to scrape it using web scrapping.
  • > I also developed dataset manually for a product developed by the company, and when I realised the procedure/technique we were using is quite slow. I started looking for different techniques and methods which can be more efficient and robust. I was able to figure out a technique which helped us by reducing data development time by nearly 1 month and was appreciated by the mentor.
  • > I also worked on building python packages for the company.
  • > I developed content on python (Kind of python tutorials) and also wrote blogs on multiple machine learning algorithms.
  • > I also developed front-end using Tkinter module for various industrial projects.

E-connect solutions pvt. ltd.

Business Analyst Intern

Jun 2019 โ€“ Jul 2019 ยท 1 mo ยท Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Jk agri genetics limited

Software Engineer

Jan 2019 โ€“ May 2019 ยท 4 mos ยท Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Nen foundation university student chapter

Chief Executive Officer

Dec 2018 โ€“ May 2020 ยท 1 yr 5 mos ยท Jaipur

  • I worked as CEO for NEN-Wadhwani Foundation, JK Lakshmipat University Student Chapter. NEN-Wadhwani Foundation supports young entrepreneurs. Being the CEO of student chapter my primary role was to encourage students for entrepreneurship. We use to conduct several activities and sessions/interactions with the CEO of growing start-ups to encourage students. To help them in pitching the idea, development of the idea and many more. It was a pillar for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre.

Centre for entrepreneurship and innovation, jk lakshmipat university

2 roles

President

Nov 2017 โ€“ May 2020 ยท 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Being the President of Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at JK Lakshmipat University, my task was to manage the core team and the smooth functioning of all the departments(Social and Corporate Media, Finance and Logistics, Startups and Alumni, Events and Public Relations). The core team of 10 students and 20 volunteers and around 130 active participants. We use to have nearly 20-25 events per year. These events include multiple awareness drives, E-talk sessions, E-Week(Entrepreneurship-Week), and sessions on investment, trading etc. We also use to organise games like the Treasure hunt, proto-type building etc.

Vice President

Oct 2016 โ€“ Oct 2017 ยท 1 yr

Computer society of india

Head of Events

Oct 2017 โ€“ Jan 2020 ยท 2 yrs 3 mos ยท JKLU, Jaipur

Appirio

Salesforce Developer

May 2017 โ€“ Jul 2017 ยท 2 mos ยท Jaipur, India

Education

JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur

Integrated Dual Degree (Bachelor of Technology + Master of Technology) โ€” Computer Science

Jan 2015 โ€“ Jan 2020

UPES

Bachelor of Technology - BTech โ€” BFSI

Jul 2014 โ€“ Nov 2014

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Engineering Physics โ€” Physics

Jun 2013 โ€“ Oct 2013

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