About

Rishikesh Kumar is a seasoned technology leader with over 10 years of experience in software development and engineering. He is currently working as a Technology Leader at Wheelseye, where he is responsible for building the company's technology infrastructure. Rishikesh has previously worked with Oyo and Snapdeal in senior software development roles and has gained extensive experience in the backend systems of these companies. At Oyo, Rishikesh was part of the backend team that formed the core of the business. He worked on developing and optimizing critical systems such as pricing, inventory, payments, coupons, search, and sort. He also developed a Q&A microservice from scratch, which enabled users to ask and answer questions on City/Locality/Hotel pages. This feature helped improve SEO by introducing user-generated content and long-tail keywords by users, resulting in a 90-95% improvement in SEO. Rishikesh has hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as New Relic and Cloudwatch and has worked with technologies such as Java, ROR, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, and Kafka. Rishikesh has a B-Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from NIT Tiruchirappalli and has completed his Class XII and Class X from Kendriya Vidyalaya and Premalok Mission School, respectively. He has a diverse tech stack that includes Spring, AWS, Ruby, Microservices, Jenkins, Search, Backend, Infra, Javascript, MySQL, Mobile, and Web. Rishikesh's experience and expertise make him a valuable asset to any organization looking for a talented technology leader.