Rahul Agnihotri

Ex-Mckinsey | Co-Founder & CTO at RAST | Driving Innovation in Industrial Robotics | Enhancing Safety & Efficiency Across Sectors​ | Transforming Industrial Inspections for a Safer Tomorrow​

Gurugram, Haryana, India

About

​As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder of Robotronix and Scalability Technology (P) LTD (RAST), I am dedicated to revolutionizing industrial asset inspections through cutting-edge robotics and automation. Our mission is to enhance safety, precision, and efficiency in maintenance operations across various industries.​ About RAST: At RAST, we specialize in developing state-of-the-art robotic crawler technology designed to perform inspections without the need for confined space entry or hazardous work at heights. Our solutions are tailored for:​ NDT Storage Tanks: Facilitating inspections, cleaning, and coating applications to ensure optimal performance and compliance.​ Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) Pipelines: Detecting defects and leaks, performing maintenance tasks, and providing real-time analytics for proactive decision-making.​ Heat Exchangers: Swiftly addressing fouling and corrosion issues to maintain operational efficiency.​ Pressure Vessels: Conducting remote inspections and repairs to uphold structural integrity while minimizing human exposure to hazardous environments.​ Hydroelectric and Wind Energy: Enhancing maintenance processes in renewable energy sectors through automated inspections and repairs.​ Our Achievements: Patents: Secured 2 patents for our innovative technologies.​ Revenue: Achieved a revenue of ₹1.04 crore.​ Clients: Proudly serving 2 major clients.​ Awards: Recipient of 2 industry awards recognizing our contributions.​ Team: A dedicated team of 11 professionals driving innovation.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at robotronix and scalability technology
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Strategic Technology Leadership In my capacity as CTO, I define and implement RAST's technological vision, ensuring it aligns seamlessly with our business objectives. This involves staying updated on emerging technologies and evaluating their potential to enhance our product offerings, thereby maintaining our competitive edge in the industry. ​ Product Development and Innovation I oversee the entire product lifecycle—from conceptualization to deployment. This includes conducting comprehensive market research to identify customer needs and industry trends, guiding our engineering teams in developing cutting-edge robotic systems, and ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality and performance. ​ Cross-Functional Collaboration A critical aspect of my role involves fostering collaboration across various departments, including design, quality assurance, procurement, and logistics. By integrating efforts across these functions, we ensure our robotic solutions are not only technologically advanced but also practical and aligned with market demands. ​ Research and Development Oversight Leading our R&D initiatives, I am committed to exploring new technologies and methodologies that can be integrated into our products. This dedication to innovation is central to our mission of enhancing the safety, accuracy, and efficiency of industrial asset inspections. ​ Team Leadership and Mentorship Building and nurturing a high-performing technical team is a priority. I focus on recruiting top talent, providing mentorship, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation within RAST. ​ Continuous Improvement I am committed to continuous improvement, regularly evaluating our processes and products to identify areas for enhancement. This dedication ensures that RAST consistently delivers state-of-the-art solutions that meet the evolving needs of our clients.

  • Partner at Roborics and Scalability Technology at Robotics and Scalability Technology
    Jul 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

  • Lead Consultant at THIRD I technology
    Feb 2014 - May 2018 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    • Gathering requirements and articulating the requirements into technical architecture vision and implementation plan. • Designing and development of Business Intelligence and Analytical solutions to solve critical business needs and pain areas. • Developed Standard Operating Procedures for maintenance, commissioning/ decommissioning, migration along with change management, RACI chart, Incident Management activities, and others. • Project Management activities scope estimation along with effort and time estimations. • Designed and developed a solution in sync with ITIL and ISO 27001 standards. • Extract and consume data from live systems to analyses and produce confident recommendations based on scientific and statistical models • Developed, implemented data cleanliness and canonicalization. Identify & find data insights that solve critical problems in a complex data environment. • Derived offshore execution of error-free data analyses and predictive modeling in R, SQL and Excel and provide overall direction and supervision on multiple projects • Demonstrate expertise in project scope, data extraction methodology, design of dependent and profile variables, logic and design of data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, and statistical methods • Identify actionable insights, suggest recommendations and influence the direction of the business by effectively communicating results to cross-functional groups

  • IT Analyst/ BI consultant at McKinsey & Company
    Aug 2007 - Dec 2013 · 6 yrs 5 mos

    • Worked as a Project Lead/ Manager for advisory and oversee the development of several Big Data solutions and analytical techniques (health care analytics, retail dashboards, asset and liability management, performance dashboards, credit risk management, and many others) to extract and maximize business values from IT investments. • Analyzed business needs, interviewed stakeholders and IT staff, formulated business requirements. • Prepared work estimation and project plan proposal, designed data warehouse. • Architected definition and conceptual solution development and implementation for the next generation cloud management platform for a PAAS platform like Amazon EC2, Windows Azure • Designed and Developed machine learning, data mining, data visualization, or statistical models for Big Data/ Business Intelligence Solutions. • Implemented solution based on Text Analytics leveraging Hadoop for delivering insights from the Social Media and Websites for the marketing team. • Designed and implemented data quality and data auditing processes including data • Discovery, profiling, logical and physical data models, data cleansing routines utilizing typical data quality functions like standardization, transformation, rationalization, linking, and normalization. Reporting tools like PowerBI, Tableau, Microstrategy and SSR.

  • Analyst at Exl Service.Com India PrivateLimited
    Aug 2003 - Aug 2007 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    • Designed and managed the development of multiple innovative and high-performing Business Intelligence applications. • Responsible for architecture and development of MSBI integration with other source systems. • Managed implementation of MSBI best practices. • Designed and developed Balanced Scorecard/Dashboard applications using SSRS Report and OLAP Services. • Directed performance tuning of MSBI application servers, user queries, and underlying Oracle data warehouse to support complex analysis. • Advised account managers and sales staff on articulating the ROI and value of the technical solution offerings from a “buyer’s and decision maker’s” perspective that resulted in increased solution adoption and annual renewals, and further cross-selling opportunities. • Created and tracked key metrics for measuring ROI for multiple Business Intelligence products. • These metrics were used to formulate product development release cycles, delivery durations, and ETL loading operations to ultimately maximize revenue and provide executive visibility. • Managed sandbox environment for performance testing of MSBI Business Intelligence products. • Designed and performed load testing of MSBI multi-tier architecture to rapidly identify performance bottlenecks, and memory leaks. • Mentored Quality and Customer Support Engineers on server administration, stability test design, memory profiling, and usage monitoring tools. • Reviewed the schema definition and constraints within the XSD documents; and reviewed the validity and integrity of configuration data within the XML files. Recommend changes based on best practices, and create self-validation checks within to eliminate known pitfalls and manual errors. Provided hands-on assistance on scripting and XSL validation creation.