Rishi Rais
C-323 Defence Colony, New Delhi, India | - |-
About Me
Technologist, Entrepreneur, Data driven product developer, Educator, Learner, AWS & Author
Education
MSE – COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION SCIENCE |2010 | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, USA
BTECH – COMPUTER SCIENCE | 2008 | INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY, DELHI, INDIA
Experience
CO-FOUNDER | MYQS | INDIA | 2018 - PRESENT
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Launched an Android application for skill sharpening in India and expanding to other S E Asian countries
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Responsibilities – Market survey, product development, product market fit, scaling, gamification,
customer feedbacks and building strong teams.
CO-FOUNDER (DIRECTOR - TECHNOLOGY) | DIGNITAS DIGITAL | INDIA & USA | 2014 – PRESENT
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An award winning digital agency with clients based out of India and North America. Serviced more than
100 clients in the past 5 years.
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Developed an internal communication tool suite for a fortune 100 company comprising of 10
applications
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Assisted 4 clients in successful fund raising (2 India, 2 USA)
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Contributor on the company blog with over 50 original blogs
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Built a team of 25 strong professionals defining the company culture and the processes
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Been running a program called DDLabs since 2014 for summer and winter internships, more than 50
students have gone through the program and are successfully placed, or running their own companies.
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Built a profitable business from $0 to $0.6MM annual revenue
CO-FOUNDER | MYISH | INDIA & USA| 2014 – 2017
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Built a photo sharing review network in 2014, was able to secured angel investment for the same and
was declared “top 20 startups in India” by Exhibit Group - http://bit.ly/2lL0crp. Low revenue per
customer led to us closing that business.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE – TECHNOLOGY | ZAIS GROUP | USA |-
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Developed an application ZAR responsible for GAAP and Tax accounting for the REIT funds. Used
extensively by the company for the its publically held fund.
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Developed and maintained critical applications used for trading purposes. Along with that maintained
cash management systems, mark to market systems as well as API’s interacting with Bloomberg
Terminal.
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Coordinated with the remote team in Shanghai to develop a tool for portfolio balancing
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Developed preventive workflows to detect cross trades across funds using Microsoft SharePoint
HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY | FAIROBSERVER | USA |-
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Led a team of 4 developers across India and USA to build the first cut of fairobserver.com. Maintained the
application for 2 years.
WEB MANAGER | PENN STUDENT AGENCIES | USA |-
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Relaunched the website pennstudentagencies.com with a completely new User Experience using modern
design techniques and development paradigms. Developed new features and maintained the website for
1 year.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER | HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | USA | 2008
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Interned for 2 months at HUP, built a scheduling calendar for the Doctors in the Neuro department.
OTHERS
FELLOW | STARTING BLOC | 2012 – PRESENT
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Selected amongst 100 strongly motivated individuals from across the world for the 2012 Los Angeles
fellowship
PRESIDENT | SSANJB SOCIETY (REGD. UNDER 80G) | 2017 – PRESENT
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Society to assist unprivileged students in government schools in India
AUTHOR | THE YEAR WE GOT BLOCK CHAINED (WORK IN PROGRESS) | 2019
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Part 1 of the book is available on amazon - https://amzn.to/2lKZIS5
TABLEAU DESKTOP SPECIALIST | TABLEAU CERTIFICATION | 2019
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Certified as a tableau desktop specialist by tableau
MEMBER | PENN ALUMNI INTERVIEW PROGRAM | 2019
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Conducted preliminary interviews of 2 candidates from the NCR region of India
EMINENT SPEAKER | IT SUMMIT AMITY UNIVERSITY, NOIDA, INDIA | 2018
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Spoke on “Expectations from youth” & “how to succeed as a startup”
STUDENT | PURSUING LLB | 2017 – PRESENT
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Hobby
CO-AUTHOR (WITH MS. KIRAN BEDI – LT. GOVERNOR PUDUCHERRY) | PAPER ON 11 POINT AGENDA
FOR POLICE & CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS IN INDIA – FAIROBSERVER.COM | 2014
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1 of 7 authors with police officers (IPS) and scholars - http://bit.ly/2lOCzyd
