Abhishek Kadian
Digital Fundraising at Make-A-Wish International
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhishek Kadian is a digital fundraising specialist with 13 years of experience building high-impact online programs for nonprofits and social ventures across Asia, now leading Digital Fundraising at Make-A-Wish International. He has a proven track record of running large-scale Facebook and Instagram campaigns that acquired 20,000+ donors, halving acquisition costs and establishing in-house lead-generation frameworks to reduce vendor dependence. Comfortable at the intersection of strategy, operations and tech, he designs cross-country systems—websites, webshops and crowdfunding platforms—that scale and standardize digital fundraising. His background spans agency-style online marketing and partnership-driven outreach (including collaborations with Google and major education initiatives), giving him both performance and ecosystem-building chops. Unusually for a fundraiser, he also contributes to open-source ML tooling (notably improvements to the Habitat-Lab embodied AI library), reflecting a hands-on, technical curiosity. Based in Delhi with an MBA in Marketing, Abhishek focuses on pragmatic strategies that deliver measurable donor growth and long-term program resilience.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc in Hospitality and Hotel Management, B.Sc in Hospitality and Hotel Management at Institue of Hotel Management, JaipurMBA, Marketing, MBA, Marketing at School of Inspired Leadership
English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
deep-learning10
python10
ai10
reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
documentation8
simulator7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/habitat-lab
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
A modular high-level library to train embodied AI agents across a variety of tasks and environments.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:3 releases, 28 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the Habitat-Lab library, a framework for embodied AI agents. Their work involved updating the versioning of the library, improving documentation and docstrings, and integrating the PyRobot framework. The user also made changes related to the handling of vectorized environments and the implementation of SoftSPL, showcasing contributions to core functionalities and task definitions within the library. Additionally, the user made contributions to the challenge 2020 remote evaluation.
pythonembodied-aideep-reinforcement-learningsimulatorai-agents
abhiskk/ladder
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 34 pushes, 1 comment in 5 months
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