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Kafka Basics and Producer Configs (Part 1)
Talks about Distributed Systems, Message Broker and Kafka
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Rishabh Jain
MBA Candidate at Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Overview
Rishabh Jain is a Venture Capitalist at Jump Capital, with a background as a Product Manager at Microsoft Azure and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management. He specializes in investing in Series A and Seed stage companies in sectors such as AI, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Infrastructure, demonstrating a strong track record in strategic thinking and new venture development.
Work Experience
MBA Candidate
2023 - Current
Exploring the world a little more. Trying out new things, enhancing my current strengths, and having fun!
VC
2024 - 2024
Security, Infra, and DevOps for AI products (GenAI and beyond). Seed to Series A. Want to chat? Reach out at rjain@jumpcap.com
Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A.
MBA Associate
2024 - 2024
Developing BGV's Deep Tech Thesis
Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Raised $150,000,000.00 from Nate Rosenthal.
Product Manager 2 (L62)
2022 - 2023
PM for Azure BCDR (Backup and Disaster Recovery), owning Backup and Site Recovery PnL for Azure VMs.
Product Manager 2 (L61)
2020 - 2022
PM for Azure Site Recovery (Disaster Recovery As A Service)
Product Manager
2019 - 2020
Software Engineer
2018 - 2019
• Owned the Feature Roadmap and Technical Design of the Global Target Setting App for Microsoft Sellers • Represented the engineering team in Microsoft’s Annual Sellers’ Summit’19. • Led the collaboration between multiple verticals to ensure the landing of seller targets within 30 days of FY. (viz-a-viz 90 days earlier) • Awarded at All-Hands for showing exemplary Customer Obsession Part of the Incentive Compensation engineering team empowering Microsoft Global Sellers to achieve more every day with state of the art tools and applications.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
FinTech and Strategy
2018 - 2018
• Developing an initial business roadmap for a new business initiative with a projected yearly profit of $30 million • Scouting and evaluating emerging FinTech companies in fields like AI, ML, NLP, Payments, Lending, etc. to explore opportunities for engagement with Nomura • Part of the PMO for Voyager - FinTech Accelerator Program • Authoring investment newsletters, written for the executive management committee to explore investment opportunities
Software Development Intern
2017 - 2017
• Worked with the CFO (Amy Hood)'s team to create a web app for Cash Forecasting and Data Presentation. • Used ASP.Net MVC Framework with Angular 2. Hosted it on Azure with AAD Authentication.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Teaching Assistant
2016 - 2017
Teaching Assistant for the courses: CS F111 : Computer Programming CS F212 : Database Systems ECON F211: Fundamental of Finance and Accounting Conducting weekly labs for 80 students. Designing and editing the lab sheets. Solving student queries in the Discussion Forum on eDX Platform.
Summer Employee
2016 - 2016
A Farmer NGO venturing into Value Added products. Worked as an assistant to the founding team (Mrs. Rajitha Vipparthi, Ex-VP, Deutsche Bank, and Prof. Trilochan Sastry, IIM-B) for • Setting up the product line and working on manufacturing outsourcing (Increasing profitability by 22%). • Market Research for expected demand and target customers. • A complete Supply Chain Analysis of Peanut Butter, Cold Pressed Oil, and Dry Chutney Powders. • Studying the Bangalore and regional markets for these products.
Project Intern
2016 - 2016
Preparing Financial Statements which are to be presented for fundraising. Survey Analysis. Researching on how Health Startups are innovating in the medical space, and how it can be incorporated in Yoddhas.
India's first online Cancer Support Community.
Panel Member
2015 - 2016
• Organising Panel Discussions pertaining to academics. • Taking initiatives to bridge the gap between the faculty and students. • Counselling students on academic and career related matters.