About

Rishu Aggarwal is a highly skilled Engineering Management professional with a strong Agile background and a passion for technology. With over 15 years of relevant experience, Rishu has worked on solution designing and developing a diverse range of products in Finance, Analytics, and Telecom domains. He is an IIMB post-graduate with deep expertise in Technical Product Leadership, team management, E2E Architecture, and Solution designing. Rishu has a proven track record of leading development teams on full stack development comprising Java/J2EE stack, UI like Angular/Ext JS, Progressive Web Applications, and Cloud/SaaS based products. He has a deep interest and experience in Big Data, Machine learning, and Cloud and strives to leverage the same to transform customer experience and revolutionize the way current offerings operate. Rishu has been the leading member of his college's (Graduation) Training and Placement cell, founded the Electrical Engineers Society (a college social group), and has been the Secretary (External Relations) in IIM-Bangalore's SAC (Student affairs Council). He has also led product development teams and startup teams, built from scratch by hiring, mentoring, and nurturing the best talents. Currently, Rishu is the Senior Manager of Software Engineering at VMware, working on building the next generation Skyline SaaS platform 2.0 in Java, Microservices, Angular, Bigdata, Solr, MongoDB. He has previously worked as an Engineering Manager at VMware Skyline, Cloud Management BU, where he set up the 12-member development team from ground zero in VMware Bangalore of highly passionate, energetic, and tech geek top-class engineers to help revolutionize customer support from reactive to proactive. Rishu's expertise lies in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Microservices, RESTful architecture, Angular, Big Data, NoSQL (MongoDB), RDBMS, Solr, Bigdata - Kafka, Spark, Storm, Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Yarn, AWS S3, IMDC - REDIS, Hazelcast, Scrum Project Management, Cross-functional teams Collaboration, and Product Development Lifecycle Management. He is proficient in ML, AI, Kubernetes, Salesforce, and RabbitMQ, among others. Rishu is a highly motivated individual who takes interests in extracurricular activities at work and has won accolades in many presentations, creating applications for intra-team and intra-office use. In his leisure time, he