Rishikesh Yardi

Rishikesh Yardi is a Senior Product Manager currently working on ads and monetization at Instacart. He most enjoys building product development from the bottom up and watching his ideas come to life and bring joy to customers. He is also on the Advisory Board at DevNetwork, an organization for the global developer and engineering community. Previously, Rishikesh worked as a Senior PM at Facebook for almost two years. There he worked as the lead for their ad relevance and quality product teams. He has also held PM roles at Expedia Group and Stanford University

Rishikesh attended the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology for his Bachelor's in Computer Science and Embedded Systems. During his studies, he was chosen as one of the top 3 students in his department and was awarded honors in embedded systems. He also holds a Master's in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.