About
Who I am and how I got here
My academic background, certificates, and the path that got me from a curious kid writing HTML to a PGDM candidate who still builds things on the side.
Shikhar Kumar
PGDM'27 Candidate, Great Lakes Gurgaon
Gurgaon, India
Who I am
I'm doing my PGDM at Great Lakes Gurgaon and I lead MarQuest, the college's marketing club, as President. Before this I ran operations for a 50-bed hospital, closed a sales stint worth more than eighteen lakh rupees in three months, and started and led an open-source Telegram bot that reached twenty million people. I like fixing things that waste people's time, whether that's a manual attendance register or a ten-minute call log.
Outside of coursework, I still write code when something needs fixing. I built and scaled a Telegram bot to twenty million users on my own, and I keep going back to Excel, Python and whatever tool gets the job done fastest.
* Leadership
* Education
PGDM
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon
3.68 / 4 CGPA
2025 - 2027
B.Sc. (General)
Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur
2024
12th
B.S.S. Education Centre, Kanpur
2020
10th
Pt. Deen Dayal U.S.D.V., Kanpur
2018
* Certificates
Advanced Certificate in Digital Marketing & Communication
MICA, Ahmedabad
26 weeks
2026
CCC, Course on Computer Concepts
NIELIT, Delhi
12 weeks
2024
Certificate of Recognition, Excellence in Operations Management
Vikalp Hospital, Lucknow
Signed by Dr. Vivek Verma, Owner
2024
* My journey and milestones
Where it all started
Got curious about code during the COVID lockdown and started building Yukki Music Bot, an open-source Telegram bot, from scratch with no formal training.
Yukki Music Bot goes live
After a year and a half of building, Yukki Music Bot went live in December 2021. It went on to reach 250,000+ groups and 20 million+ users, and 1,400 GitHub stars.
Three versions, three more bots
Pushed Yukki Music Bot through v1.0, v2.0 and v3.0 in the first three months of the year alone, adding support for Spotify, Apple Music, Resso and more. Alongside it I shipped YukkiAFKBot and YukkiChatBot, on top of YukkiMultiSpamBot from the year before, under the TeamYukki org on GitHub.
Still growing, still maintaining
Kept maintaining Yukki Music Bot as it kept spreading, past 4,200+ forks by the time I moved on. Commits on the repo kept going until December 2024, mostly bug fixes and platform updates as Telegram's API changed under it.
Running hospital operations
Graduated with a B.Sc. and stepped into my first full-time role, Operations Manager at a 50-bed hospital, where I replaced the manual attendance register with a platform I built myself.
Started the PGDM at Great Lakes
Joined the PGDM programme at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, and made the Chairman's Merit List in the first year.
Internship, MarQuest, and more building
Interned at INME Learning as a two-time Top Performer of the Week, became President of MarQuest, built marquest.in and the PGDM Timetable Bot, and finished a Digital Marketing certificate at MICA Ahmedabad.
Looking for what's next
Finishing the PGDM and looking for a full-time role in business analytics, growth or operations, while still building things on the side.