About

Rishi Gargi is an accomplished Lead Software Engineer at Agoda and co-founder of Thingify, an angel-funded AI and IoT product startup. He is also the founder of IoT-NCR, the world's third-largest open IoT community with over 8,000 members, and Data Science Delhi, one of the fastest-growing AI communities. With over eight years of experience at firms such as Agoda, JP Morgan, Rate Gain, Airtel, and IBM, Rishi is an expert data scientist and IoT evangelist with a patent pending. He has been commended as a thought leader in AI and IoT by various forums. Rishi has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering & Technology, Bathinda, and an AMPBA in Business Analytics from ISB Hyderabad. At Agoda, Rishi is a key member of the fintech team, managing payouts related to affiliate hotels. Previously, he served as AVP at JP Morgan in Corporate & Investment Banking. Rishi is also a founder of Thingify, which was acquired. Rishi's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, Research Science, AWS, ML, MySQL, MongoDB, Spring Boot, Spring, Corpus, AngularJS, Spark, Scikit, test, NodeJS, Javascript, Typescript, Tensorflow, Neural Networks, Mobile, UI, Frontend, and Backend. Rishi has relevant experience of 5.95 years. Rishi has been a finalist of IBM TGMC 2012 and has advanced in Google Code Jam & Facebook Hacker Cup.