RISHI SHARMA

Sep 2024 – Present

London, UK · Hybrid

Nutcake.ai

CTO & Co-Founder — Nutcake.ai by CreatorOS

Designed and built Nutcake.ai from zero — an AI-first creator commerce & intelligence platform across AWS, GCP, and Vercel. Core stack: Vertex AI, Gemini APIs, custom LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, Next.js (React 19), PlanetScale/Postgres, PyTorch, FastAPI. Built semantic creator search via vector embeddings, AI-powered brand–creator matching models, pricing & performance prediction using PyTorch, and AI-assisted content intelligence pipelines. Integrated contract automation (PandaDoc), WhatsApp notifications, Resend email, and workflow-driven AI actions with human-in-the-loop safeguards. Took the product from concept to a live platform used by 50K+ creators and brands.

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024

Greater London, UK · Hybrid

Natter

CTO & Co-Founder

Built a next-generation intelligent social network for well-being on a polyglot stack: Expo, FastAPI, Go, Python, Java, Strapi, React Native, Next.js, Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Istio. Developed data models for sentiment analysis, bullying detection, audio/video ad classification, and GPT/LLM-based well-being advisors.

Mar 2017 – Jun 2023

UK / Europe · On-site

Tesco

Head of Software Development

Led digital transformation from legacy mainframe systems to open-source cloud stacks (Azure, GCP, AWS), overseeing 250+ engineers across India, UK, and Kraków with a new tech centre in Budapest. Rebuilt the promotions platform for the world's largest loyalty card programme, saving £700M through deep learning & data science. Owned Enterprise Platform, Supplier & Product Lifecycle, Cost, Promotions, Price, Deals, Space, Range, Display, and in-store applications. APIs sustained 56K req/sec across 40K+ tills in 6K stores.

Nov 2014 – Mar 2017

Bengaluru, India · On-site

Snapdeal

AVP Engineering

Set up Snapdeal's Bangalore Engineering Centre from scratch — scaled from 1 to 220 engineers in 18 months. Engineered an API gateway supporting 42M concurrent users. Re-engineered the review & rating system with ML classification, re-platformed the seller ecosystem to NoSQL at cloud scale, and delivered a seller recommendation system to optimise inventory and selling decisions.

Jun 2011 – Oct 2014

Hyderabad, India · On-site

EA Sports

Senior Director of Technology

Built Hyderabad Studio Server Engineering from scratch: delivered a cloud-hosted game server stack supporting 8M DAU, predictive analytics ingesting 600K RPM, and an iOS/Android push notification system replacing Urban Airship. Led central technology services for EA Mobile including end-to-end ownership of The Sims social game and migration to cloud-based Hadoop analytics. Share price moved from $2.21 → $7.10 during tenure.

Apr 2008 – Jun 2011

India · On-site

Microsoft

Senior Program Manager

Delivered Windows Phone 7 tools using .NETCF and Silverlight runtime. Worked closely with marketing on feature prioritisation and planning, led test sign-off, created detailed execution plans, and managed the PM organisation. Launched Windows Phone Tools Express in 14 months, lifting mobile app development adoption by 12%.

May 2006 – Apr 2008

India / Gibraltar · On-site

Ivy Comptech (PartyGaming)

Software Development Lead

Part of the Party Poker engineering division, collaborating with Canada, UK, and Gibraltar teams. Launched no-download Poker in 3 months, multilingual client in 4 months, and multi-currency support in 2 months. Responsible for partner management with technology companies in India and abroad. Platform became the #1 poker room globally at $3.1M revenue per day.

Feb 1997 – May 2006

Bangalore, India / Boston, US · On-site

Motorola

Software Engineer & Technical Lead

Individual contributor and technical lead across 9+ years. Delivered mobile application features and Java backend APIs. Built high-availability rolling upgrade mechanisms for Selection and Distribution units in the mobile space. Mentored engineers and contributed to Java/RMI distributed rules engines for SNMP message conversions.