Skillancy Instructor
Rishav Kumar
Generative AI & Agentic AI Instructor · Principal Data Analyst
Rishav Kumar is a Generative AI, Agentic AI and data analytics instructor with 13+ years of industry experience. He is a Principal Data Analyst at Walmart Global Tech in India and the Head Instructor at Skillancy, where he teaches live, project-first cohorts in Data Analytics with Agentic AI, Generative AI and Data Science with AI. He also mentors Data Analyst and Business Analyst fellows at NextLeap and is Visiting Faculty at Scaler. He has trained 3,200+ learners.
Last updated
13+
Years in data & AI
3,200+
Learners trained
300+
Built their first AI agent in one 60-minute session
$35M+
Annual savings delivered through analytics
At a glance
Rishav Kumar: key facts
- Current role
- Principal Data Analyst, Walmart Global Tech
- At Skillancy
- Head Instructor
- Experience
- 13+ years in data, analytics and AI
- Also teaches at
- NextLeap (Instructor & Mentor), Scaler (Visiting Faculty)
- Learners trained
- 3,200+
- Education
- MBA, Goa Institute of Management; B.Tech (IT), Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
- Based in
- India
Expertise
What Rishav specialises in
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI & AI agents
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- LangChain
- Prompt engineering
- AI evaluation
- Python
- SQL
- BigQuery
- Tableau
- Transportation & logistics analytics
Teaching
Classes and programs Rishav teaches
Live cohorts, workshops and masterclasses led by Rishav Kumar.
Head Instructor — live AI & analytics cohorts
Skillancy
Teaches live, mentor-led cohorts where learners build RAG apps, LLM workflows and agentic automations they can show in interviews.
Live workshop: build your first AI agent in 60 minutes
Skillancy
A hands-on, no-code to low-code agentic AI session where 300+ working professionals each left with a working AI agent.
Data Analyst & Business Analyst Fellowships
NextLeap
Instructor and mentor taking fellows from their first SQL query to a portfolio-ready graduation project; several of his mentees were named Top Fellows.
Masterclass: The AI Strategy Behind Retail Orgs' Personalised Shopping Experience
Scaler — Online PGP in Business and AI
A 90-minute masterclass on the business problems, models and metrics behind retail personalisation.
AI training for founders and enterprise teams
Independent
Founder workshops on AI agents for sales, support, research and operations, and LLM, RAG and agent bootcamps for teams.
Experience
Rishav Kumar's professional experience
May 2020 – Present
Principal Data Analyst, Walmart Global Tech (India)
- Leads and mentors a team of analysts supporting Walmart's transportation network and advises senior leadership on transportation strategy.
- Self-serve Tableau dashboards for carrier selection that cut delivery delays by 80%.
- Advanced-SQL vendor-billing analysis that uncovered about $15M a year in revenue leakage.
- Utilisation and efficiency KPIs that enabled about $20M a year in infrastructure savings.
Oct 2017 – May 2020
Analytics Consultant, Deloitte Consulting
- Built a Tableau NPS analytics tool for a major US airline across fleets, flights and regions, improving NPS by 10%.
Jan 2016 – Oct 2017
Senior Analyst, Fidelity Investments
- Call-routing insights dashboard saving $1M a year.
- SQL-based keyword segmentation that cut issue-resolution time by 90%.
May 2015 – Jan 2016
Analyst, Photon Infotech
- Credit-card sales analytics and client reporting in SAS.
Jun 2011 – May 2013
Software Engineer, HCL Technologies
- SQL development for P&L across FX cash, money markets, commodities and derivatives.
- VBA models that cut people-project management time by 85%.
Projects
AI projects learners build with him
RetailGenie AI — Intelligent Retail Assistant
Conversational product-recommendation assistant using LLMs and RAG, deployed as a live app.
InfoNavigator AI — Smart Search & Navigation System
Semantic search on vector databases and embeddings that retrieves information by meaning.
DocuMind AI — Intelligent Document Understanding Engine
Document parsing and understanding pipeline built with LangChain, with responsible-AI evaluation.
Education
Education
MBA
Goa Institute of Management · 2013 – 2015
B.Tech, Information Technology
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering · 2007 – 2011
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Rishav Kumar
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