Rakesh has over 18 years of editorial and content management experience with specialization in all flavors of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs, including telecoms). He has worked as the Editor – Information Technology for A&M Group of business magazines (Group Technology Editor) besides holding senior editorial positions for Dataquest (Cyber Media Group) and Computers Today (India Today Group). He has also contributed articles/columns on ICTs regularly for The Tribune, The Indian Express, The Financial Express, and a few other publications in India.

Besides, as an independent content consultant, he has provided editorial, business/technology analysis, market research, and content quality assurance services to major local and multinational technology/telecom companies. He has also handled major custom publishing projects independently for leading global technology companies. He has extensive online media experience while running three Web-based content portals under a company that he formed during the late 1990s.

In 1995, Rakesh was conferred the National-level government-instituted award for his contribution in the field of IT journalism, which has been a unique distinction in the country. The award was presented to him at the Republic Day function.

While he has done M.Sc. (Statistics) with Computer Science Orientation from Panjab University, Chandigarh, he started his career as a software developer and worked for almost seven years with a couple of leading technology companies.

His current role at ITNation is to strengthen the editorial activity and create processes to tap more business opportunities in the new media space.