1stepGrow's executive board is responsible for the publication's editorial direction and its standards. It is accountable for how our editorial policy, correction policy and AI content policy are applied, and it chairs the jury for 25 Tech Leaders and 30 Under 30.
Board
Ravi Pradhan
AI Expert - 11+ Yrs Experience
AI and data specialist with more than eleven years across EdTech, financial services and technology, and an IBM Certified Data Scientist.
What the board does
- Sets editorial priorities across news, comparisons, roadmaps and guides.
- Owns our published standards and reviews them as the site grows.
- Reviews escalated correction requests and complaints about coverage.
- Approves the criteria and final selections for our recognition lists.
- Keeps commercial decisions separate from independent editorial judgement.
Ravi Pradhan also writes for 1stepGrow under his own byline, from course comparisons to guides and technical articles. Board members declare any conflict of interest on matters they review.
Editorial team
Articles are written by named, verified writers — working engineers, data and cloud specialists and content strategists. Each profile lists the writer's role and links to their LinkedIn so readers can check the experience behind the advice. See all writers and their articles.
Althaf Ashraf
AI Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services
AI systems engineer working on agentic decision systems and retrieval architectures at TCS, with a focus on getting AI into real workflows rather than demos.
Ayushi Kulshreshta
AI Engineer
AI engineer building retrieval-augmented systems, previously a software developer at VDB Inc. and an R&D associate at Nokia.
Vanshika Nigam
ETL & Data Engineer, Accenture
ETL developer at Accenture working with Informatica, Snowflake and DBT, specialising in data mapping, cleansing and pipeline performance.
Sivaranjani S
Cloud Operations Engineer, Zoho
Cloud operations engineer and technical writer at Zoho, previously technical content consultant at 1stepGrow Academy.
Nishant Kiran
B2B SaaS & EdTech Content Strategist
Content writer and copy editor with seven years across EdTech, FinTech and B2B technology. Formerly led content marketing at 1stepGrow Academy.
Raise a concern
To raise a concern about our coverage with the board, email contacts@1stepgrow.com with the subject line "For the executive board", or use our contact form.