About

Rishabh Saxena is an accomplished Engineering Manager at Yelp, a people-first organization with an agile, product-focused mindset. With over 7 years of relevant experience, he has previously worked with BrowserStack, Intel, Mozilla WoS, and Google SoC. Rishabh is passionate about problem-solving and has created multiple products on the side, including osem, a conference management tool widely used by open-source organizations, ssh-scan, an SSH security auditing tool with 120k+ downloads, and s-evak, a low-cost emergency ventilator for people in need in under-developed countries during the pandemic. He has also collaborated with a hardware engineering team to create tuRing, a low-energy pulse oximetry smart ring for asthmatic patients. As an engineering leader, Rishabh emphasizes building fair and inclusive teams with a people-first approach. He enjoys solving strategic and organizational problems, including hiring, improving processes, strategic alignment, and stakeholder management. He is also passionate about scalable engineering architecture, career mentorship, businesses, entrepreneurship, and investments. Currently, Rishabh is an Engineering Manager at Yelp, where he focuses on business demand generation, signup, and claims. His team specializes in the claim flow experiences to onboard business owners to Yelp and help them find, claim, or add their business to Yelp, maximizing success on the platform. Rishabh's past experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Yelp, where he shipped multi-million dollar revenue projects with the team to maximize the impact for local business onboarding journey on Yelp. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at BrowserStack, where he specialized in backend platform engineering for mobile infrastructure. Rishabh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, and an Intermediate degree from Kendriya Vidyalaya, where he studied science, mathematics, and computer science. His tech stack includes senior software engineer, software engineer, test, mobile, backend, and infra.