A practitioner who teaches what he ships.
13+ years turning ambiguous business problems into measurable outcomes at Walmart, Deloitte and Fidelity, and now teaching Generative AI, LLMs, RAG and agentic AI.
Rishav Kumar is a Principal Analyst at Walmart Global Tech in India and a Generative AI and agentic AI educator with 13+ years in data and AI. He is Head Instructor at Skillancy, an Instructor at NextLeap and Visiting Faculty at Scaler, and holds an MBA from Goa Institute of Management.
Rishav Kumar
Rishav Kumar is a Generative AI and agentic AI educator and a Principal Analyst at Walmart Global Tech in India. He has spent more than 13 years in data and AI across Walmart Global Tech, Deloitte Consulting, Fidelity Investments, Photon Infotech and HCL Technologies.
At Walmart he leads and mentors a team of analysts supporting Walmart's transportation network, and works with senior leadership on strategy. His team's work has delivered $15M and $20M in annual savings and an 80% reduction in delivery delays.
Alongside his role at Walmart, he is Head Instructor at Skillancy, an Instructor and mentor at NextLeap, and Visiting Faculty at Scaler. He trains working professionals, entrepreneurs and enterprise teams in Generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents. See where he teaches and the AI projects his learners build.
He holds an MBA from Goa Institute of Management and a B.Tech in Information Technology from Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering.
Professional experience
Principal Analyst
- Lead and mentor a team of analysts supporting Walmart's transportation network, owning projects end to end, from scoping to the executive presentation.
- Scaled self-serve Tableau dashboards for carrier selection, reducing delivery delays by 80%.
- Advanced-SQL deep dives into vendor billing uncovered revenue leakage worth $15M a year.
- Designed VM utilisation and efficiency KPIs that enabled $20M a year in infrastructure savings.
- Partner with senior leadership on transportation strategy across distribution centres.
Head Instructor · Instructor · Visiting Faculty
- Head Instructor at Skillancy for live cohorts in Generative AI, agentic AI and data.
- Instructor and mentor at NextLeap for the Data Analyst and Business Analyst fellowships; several of the fellows I mentored were named Top Fellows.
- Visiting Faculty at Scaler, delivering masterclasses for the Online PGP in Business and AI.
Analytics Consultant
- Built a Tableau NPS analytics tool across fleets, flights and regions, improving NPS by 10%.
- Turned survey data into satisfaction-trend and opportunity-index metrics for in-flight and lounge experience.
Senior Analyst
- Built a call-routing insights dashboard saving $1M a year.
- Built SQL-based keyword segmentation that cut issue-resolution time by 90%.
- Proposed the Customer Intent Model and Last Agent Routing to re-engineer how relationship managers were assigned.
Analyst
- Credit-card sales analytics and client reporting in SAS.
Software Engineer
- SQL development for P&L across FX cash, money markets, commodities and derivatives.
- VBA models that cut people-project management time by 85%.
Education
MBA
Goa Institute of Management
B.Tech, Information Technology
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
About Rishav Kumar: FAQ
What is Rishav Kumar's current role?
Rishav Kumar is a Principal Analyst at Walmart Global Tech in India, where he leads and mentors a team of analysts supporting Walmart's transportation network. He is also Head Instructor at Skillancy, an Instructor and mentor at NextLeap, and Visiting Faculty at Scaler.
How many years of experience does Rishav Kumar have?
Rishav Kumar has more than 13 years of experience in data, analytics and AI: Walmart Global Tech (2020–present), Deloitte Consulting (2017–2020), Fidelity Investments (2016–2017), Photon Infotech (2015–2016) and HCL Technologies (2011–2013).
What results has Rishav Kumar delivered at Walmart?
At Walmart Global Tech his work has delivered $15M a year in savings from vendor-billing analysis, $20M a year in infrastructure savings from efficiency KPIs, and an 80% reduction in delivery delays through self-serve carrier-selection dashboards.
Where did Rishav Kumar study?
Rishav Kumar holds an MBA from Goa Institute of Management (2013–2015) and a B.Tech in Information Technology from Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering (2007–2011).
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