Rishi Kumar
Director Of Product Management at Confluent
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Kumar is a product leader with ~10 years of experience scaling B2B SaaS and developer-focused platforms, currently Director of Product Management at Confluent. He helped build Apollo GraphQL’s cloud offering and led Product & Data at Clockwise, bringing deep expertise in product-led growth, usage-based pricing, and data-driven decision making. As an early product leader at CircleCI and an early employee at Infer, he has repeatedly shipped zero-to-one technical products and architected pricing and monetization strategies that drove sustained revenue growth. His background spans management consulting, VC investing, and hands-on roles in engineering and customer-facing functions, giving him a rare cross-functional fluency. Based in Chapel Hill, he still enjoys talking SQL, Python, and databases, and he advises and invests in startups focused on developer tools, productivity, and ML-enabled products. An erstwhile entrepreneur and MBA from Chicago Booth, he mixes analytical rigor with a taste for unconventional career moves (and awkward third-person bios).
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Finance Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Finance Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (20)
api-blueprint10
circleci10
redoc10
api-documentation10
jekyll10
documentation10
utm6
parse6
parser6
react5
nextjs4
frontend4
orb4
sdk3
java1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rishimkumar/exploratory_data_analysis_helper
Aug 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
rishimkumar/circleci-docs
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Documentation for CircleCI.
Contributions:9 PRs, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years
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