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Rishabh Mendiratta

Engineering/ Product | 1x Founder | Prev: Tech @ D. E. Shaw & Co. | GrowthX Club | Writing about (Agri/Climate/Clean)-Tech @ rishabhmendiratta.substack.com

Bengaluru

7+ years of work experience

Multiple Companies
May 20242 y 3 moPresent

India

Foodizen India Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 20231 yr 3 mosMar 2024

Bengaluru

--> Bootstrapped The Baking Club brand as a HoReCa venture with underlying novelty in Product Ops & fusion foods, achieving a 50% M-o-M growth. --> Designed SOPs and marketing strategies eventually becoming a case study in the Zomato growth teams within 3 months with an average of rating 4.3/5 and more than 400 5-star reviews. --> Diversified revenue channels through key partnerships and unconventional strategies, including Draper Startup House, while fostering brand recognition via mentorship and community initiatives. --> Conducted product research and menu engineering to strategically maintain the threshold of manufacturing cost below 30%. --> Engineered food-tech processes to automate kitchen workflow reducing order turnaround time by 80%
Infra.Market
Sep 20221 moSep 2022

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Jul 20193 yrs 1 moJul 2022

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

--> Spearheaded the development, roadmap planning and maintenance of a commodity trading tool, serving as the primary liaison across developers, traders, QA, and stakeholders, for discretionary and quantitative trades. --> Orchestrated automation for multiple exchange data sources (EEX, ICE, CME), saving 40% of developers’ time by eliminating onboarding redundancies and streamlining data ingestion. --> Boosted instrument lookup performance by 300x, halving computational time for complex financial asset classes and enhancing the overall trading experience. --> Optimized trade-processing workflows, reducing application load time by 90%, enabling faster order execution for energy-related commodities (electricity, natural gas, crude oil, etc.).
D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Jan 20196 mosJun 2019

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

-->Selected as 1 of only 7 hired interns nationwide (and the sole hire from my college). --> Developed a full stack application with a generic backend for standalone project which aimed to cater the CRUD features (create, read, update, insert and delete) for different datasets having multiple or singular tables depending upon how they are stored in databases. The platform enabled research teams to handle tasks independently without technology overheads. -->Technologies used Python, ReactJS, Microsoft SQL Server
GitHub
@rishabh9785

Rishabh’s AI Stack

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Education

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Computer

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

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Headline

Engineering/ Product | 1x Founder | Prev: Tech @ D. E. Shaw & Co. | GrowthX Club | Writing about (Agri/Climate/Clean)-Tech @ rishabhmendiratta.substack.com

About

Product-led Growth with Engineering Depth and Founder execution - I'm Rishabh Mendiratta, I started my career as a Software Developer at a hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. - I have built trading technology solutions ( Product + Tech ) that optimized execution speed and automated workflows for energy markets. - After ~4 years, seeking broader ownership, I transitioned to entrepreneurship in the F&B sector. - Scaled the category-creation bootstrapped business to 3M INR ARR, introduced proprietary food-tech workflows, optimized TAT, reduced onboarding time and built strategic partnerships with global brands like Draper Startup House. - The product and execution led to becoming a case study within Zomato growth teams. - I exited the venture due to founding team misalignment. - After my startup journey, to expand my knowledge of Product & Growth levers, I did an immersive learning program at GrowthX Club. - Also, leveraged my post-startup time for a strategic reflection to define my next move and applied to international B-Schools. ( Attempted GRE in Aug 2024 : 317/340 ) - I have been consulting Startups on Engineering & Product Leveraging a combined 5 years of corporate and entrepreneurial expertise, I am seeking impactful roles in the startup ecosystem. I am now looking for the next adventure as Software Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

notebooklm

ChatGPT

Work experience

Fractional ( Engineering / Product ) at Multiple Companies, May 2024 - Present · 2 y 3 mo, India

Co-Founder at Foodizen India Pvt. Ltd., Jan 2023 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, --> Bootstrapped The Baking Club brand as a HoReCa venture with underlying novelty in Product Ops & fusion foods, achieving a 50% M-o-M growth. --> Designed SOPs and marketing strategies eventually becoming a case study in the Zomato growth teams within 3 months with an average of rating 4.3/5 and more than 400 5-star reviews. --> Diversified revenue channels through key partnerships and unconventional strategies, including Draper Startup House, while fostering brand recognition via mentorship and community initiatives. --> Conducted product research and menu engineering to strategically maintain the threshold of manufacturing cost below 30%. --> Engineered food-tech processes to automate kitchen workflow reducing order turnaround time by 80%

Senior Software Engineer at Infra.Market, Sep 2022 - Sep 2022 · 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Software Developer at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited, Jul 2019 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, --> Spearheaded the development, roadmap planning and maintenance of a commodity trading tool, serving as the primary liaison across developers, traders, QA, and stakeholders, for discretionary and quantitative trades. --> Orchestrated automation for multiple exchange data sources (EEX, ICE, CME), saving 40% of developers’ time by eliminating onboarding redundancies and streamlining data ingestion. --> Boosted instrument lookup performance by 300x, halving computational time for complex financial asset classes and enhancing the overall trading experience. --> Optimized trade-processing workflows, reducing application load time by 90%, enabling faster order execution for energy-related commodities (electricity, natural gas, crude oil, etc.).

Software Development Intern at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited, Jan 2019 - Jun 2019 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, -->Selected as 1 of only 7 hired interns nationwide (and the sole hire from my college). --> Developed a full stack application with a generic backend for standalone project which aimed to cater the CRUD features (create, read, update, insert and delete) for different datasets having multiple or singular tables depending upon how they are stored in databases. The platform enabled research teams to handle tasks independently without technology overheads. -->Technologies used Python, ReactJS, Microsoft SQL Server

Education

BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Computer, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Immersive Learning Experience: Growth Strategies, GrowthX®

Public links

github: https://github.com/rishabh9785