Aneeq Dholakia
Co-Founder, Edyst (YC W19) | Trained 10,000+ Students | #1 Careers Platform for Freshers in India
- Role
- Co-founder & Cpo at Edyst
- Location
- Hyderabad, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Aneeq Dholakia
Co-founder and CPO of Edyst, an ed-tech company. 7+ years experience in product development, building teams, data analysis, operations management, content creation & teaching
Experience
Co-founder & Cpo
Dec 2016 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Co-Founder Selected for Y Combinator W19 batch (2% acceptance rate); raised $150k seed capital and an additional $45k seed capital on Demo Day (March 2019) Grew user base to from 20••••22 Built and lead a diverse 10-person engineering, digital marketing & content team; directly managed all team members through check-ins with a 90% satisfaction rate Product Tools Used: JIRA, BalsamIQ, Figma, Airtable, Sentry, Newrelic, Amplitude, Posthog Wrote multiple PRDs, conducted Market Research and led product development for the entire Edyst product Grew the product to 175k users in a span of 4 years, with MAU and 70+ mins of Daily Average Time spent by users on the platform Implemented product usage tracking via analytics tools like Amplitude and Posthog Guided engineers working on Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, RQ Key Features Designed & Implemented: Asynchronous learning paths: deployed 20 courses, with the ability to lock/unlock content as per student’s pace and earn points P2P chat system for students to clear queries. Total chats: 6.5 Million+ Online Evaluator for Coding submissions: 35 million+ total attempts by students Proctored assessments: configurable assessment with window, audio, and video proctoring Synchronous Live Classes: using Zoom Web SDK, designed a solution for one-to-many live classes with attendance tracking and offline viewing at a minimal cost Notifications: Designed integrations for Whatsapp, Email, and OneSignal for notifications Data & Operations Tools Used: Redash, Python, Google Sheets, Zapier Deployed 50+ dashboards using Redash (an open-source BI tool) and saved months in engineering effort Wrote 300+ queries using multiple data sources: PostgreSQL, API sources, and Google Sheets Marketing Tools Used: SendInBlue, Google Analytics, OBS, Zapier, Typeform Created 100+ videos and live streams for Edyst YouTube channel and grew it to 38k subscribers
Education
International Institute of Information Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
2011 — 2015
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