About

Rishu Mehrotra is a highly skilled and experienced technology consultant, currently serving as a Principal at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). With over 15 years of relevant experience, Rishu has a proven track record of building high-performance teams, scalable systems, and automation for optimal quality. Rishu's current role at BCG involves leading technology-enabled business transformations, with a particular focus on fintech and media. He is responsible for developing and implementing strategies that help clients leverage technology to achieve their business objectives. Prior to joining BCG, Rishu held several key positions at leading companies such as Visa and LinkedIn. At Visa, he served as Director of Tools Engineering & Security, Data Platform, where he led developer productivity, SRE, and cybersecurity initiatives for Visa's data platform teams. He also built and grew a strong engineering team across the US and India offices, focusing on self-service systems, tools, and automation capabilities. Rishu and his team were granted multiple trade secrets for their work in the area. At LinkedIn, Rishu was SRE Manager for DWH and Grid, where he managed an SRE team for DWH and Hadoop infrastructure. His primary responsibilities included driving and evangelizing SRE culture in the teams, growing and mentoring the team, identifying and culling down on operational heavy tasks by replacing them with relevant automation, putting in tooling in place for deployments, best practices, and influencing stakeholders, and cost and resource optimizations. Rishu holds a Bachelor's degree in Computers from Manipal Institute of Technology. He also attended BHS, Pilani, and St. Francis College. His technical expertise includes SRE, Hadoop, and infra. Overall, Rishu Mehrotra is a highly skilled and accomplished technology consultant with a proven track record of delivering results. He is passionate about building high-performance teams and leveraging technology to drive business transformations.