About

Rishi Pahuja is a highly experienced Senior Manager in Data and Software Engineering at Apple, with over 21 years of relevant experience in the field. He possesses great technical skills and a passion for resolving complex problems with ease. Rishi is adept at maintaining focus on achieving the right end results while formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of business needs. Rishi has an impressive professional background, having previously worked as Manager Data Engineering, Business Intelligence & Analytics at Amazon, where he led the Finance Technology Data Engineering team responsible for building scalable solutions for finance functions such as Account Payables, Account Receivables, Accounting, Procurement, and Payroll. During his tenure, he defined the vision and owned charters of teams and tied them to business goals, served as a Delivery Manager for all project deliveries, and conducted Design & Architecture reviews. Rishi also ensured all key audit & policy compliance for all products were met, acted as an innovation catalyst, and motivated the team to innovate. He also built and scaled the data engineering team at Hyderabad and led the transformation project with the delivery of the world's largest finance data warehouse for e-commerce with trillions of transactions using AWS Stack. Before joining Amazon, Rishi worked as Head Reporting Shared Services, India at RBS, where he was responsible for multiple bespoke BI applications across Business Units supporting 35+ apps with assistance from 30+ team members. He was also the Shared BI Platforms owner where multiple apps were hosted, ensuring reliability, availability, resiliency, and upkeep of these platforms. Rishi formulated product & applications roadmap, budget procurement, arranged PoC for stakeholders, assisted the team with technical design & architecture reviews, identified improvisation areas, and improved on existing processes to maximize ROI. He also managed the team, conducted people management, performance reviews & pay reviews. Rishi holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Finance and Strategy from the Management Development Institute. He is skilled in Data Engineering, AWS, Data Warehouse, and Search. Rishi's highly effective interpersonal and communication style makes him an asset to any team.