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Rishabh

Product and design lead with an engineer's spine. I build B2C products people actually open. This is the part of the résumé that never makes it onto the résumé.

Based in
Dubai, UAE
Field
B2C Product & Design
Origin
Civil Eng., MIT '12
PSN
fourlions_01
01The Pivot

From load-bearing walls to load-bearing products.

I trained to keep buildings standing - a civil engineering degree from the Manipal Institute of Technology, class of 2012. Then I noticed the structures I cared most about were the ones people tapped, scrolled, and came back to. So I rebuilt myself around the user instead of the beam.

2012Civil Engineering, MIT Manipal
0 → $1MMonthly revenue, built ground-up
AcquiredVP of Product & Design, Blinctrip

At Blinctrip I took a consumer product from a blank repo to a million a month in revenue and carried both the product strategy and the design craft on the way to an acquisition. The engineering never left - it just changed materials.

02The Dual Citizen

Home is Dubai. The rest is a layover.

I keep a desk in Dubai and a boarding pass in the other hand. Travel is how I run user research on myself - new airport, new constraint, new appreciation for an interface that just works at 38,000 feet.

  1. 01
    LHR → AUHBusiness class, the good kind of red-eye
  2. 02
    PhuketLong-tail boats and longer lunches
  3. 03
    EgyptFive thousand years of skyline from the water
03The Underworld

After hours, I answer to a different ID.

PlayStation Networkfourlions_01Mostly found running the channel on EA Sports FC
EA Sports FCmain since the FIFA days

Football is just product management with worse latency tolerance: read the field, commit early, recover fast. Add me if you can take a loss gracefully.

04The Temple

The part of me that is intentionally offline.

Hari Aum Maa
A daily reminder that not everything worth keeping is something you can ship.
Devotion

A long, quiet thread to the Adiveda Trust and the teachings of Vanamali Mataji. It is the ballast under everything else on this page.

Practice

Sacred fasting on its appointed days - a recurring reset for the body and the ego both. Discipline I keep because no one is watching.

05The Machine

If you can measure it, you can train it.

Personal training at Wolf Pack Dubai, with a WHOOP band turning the body into a dashboard. The same instinct that A/B tests a product ends up A/B testing the operator.

RecoveryLogged dailyWHOOP, every morning
StrainEarned, not fakedWolf Pack Dubai
SleepNon-negotiablethe real performance edge
06The Diet

You are what you read on a Tuesday morning.

A deliberately curated information diet. No infinite feeds, no doomscroll - just a handful of sources that consistently change how I think.

  • 01
    Shreyas DoshiProduct Sense
  • 02
    Lenny's NewsletterOperating playbooks
  • 03
    The KenIndia business, deep
  • 04
    LessWrongThinking about thinking
  • 05
    SubstackA rotating cast of sharp minds