Product Strategy | Founder | Consultant | AI Products

Bangalore







Bengaluru Area, India







Master of Business Administration - MBA
Symbiosis institute of Management Studies

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE
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Senior Consultant at Deloitte, Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mo, Bangalore
Senior Product Manager at Brick & Bolt, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, - Strategic Product Vision: Led growth roadmap, scaling organic traffic 90% (80K to 150K monthly) via SEO, programmatic pages, calculator tools, and page performance optimisation (+20% ad performance growth). GMV grew 1.3x from $71M to $93M annually with 7 engineers, 1 designer, 1 APM. - AI Automation: Implemented AI-powered content automation for website and landing pages, improving page go-live velocity by 200% and driving 75% organic lead growth, adding $1.1M annual GMV. - AI Product Development: Built AI call-audit layered with Generative AI to automate multi-language lead qualification across 3,200+ calls, improving conversion by 5% through feedback loops and sales agent ranking, delivering $1.73M annual GMV. - Growth Experimentation & Analytics: Ran structured A/B tests and funnel optimisation, improving conversion and quality scores by 2.3% via data-led UI/UX refinements.
Product Manager 2 at Livspace, Oct 2024 - Jun 2025 · 9 mos, - Platform Development: Developed FinS and VIP platforms; digitized services procurement and vendor invoicing, saving $1.3M/year and cutting invoice TAT from 85 to 40 days through workflow automation. - Global Vendor Management: Launched unified vendor management platform to solve for vendor data centralisation and KYC automation, reducing activation TAT by 60% and improving compliance. - AI Invoice Validation: Deployed AI-driven validation using rules engine and ML, reducing processing TAT by 90% and saving $150K annually.
Product Manager 1 at Livspace, Oct 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, - Built and scaled VIP (Vendor Invoice Portal), consolidating invoices; reduced invoicing cycle from 85 to 40 days (53% TAT reduction). - Improved financial reconciliation accuracy from 60% to 90%, avoiding ₹1 Cr/year in excess GST losses. - Launched dashboard to track invoice ageing and throughput across teams
Associate Product Manager at Livspace, May 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos, - PM responsible for overseeing a suite of 7+ end-to-end Supply Chain Management (SCM) products such as Ecom, OMS, IMS, VMS, WMS, LMS, TARS, IMOS. - Worked on identifying, quantifying, and eliminating manufacturing Wastage by 90% which helped in impacting ₹2cr+ in cost savings. - Led design and development of Sorting & QC product for pan India Vendors to achieve ₹4cr+ cost savings annually, reduce wrong & short supply by 66%, and manpower reduction by 40%. - Developed an order processing platform for automating production file generation to achieve 42% TAT reduction and 75% reduction in manpower. - Prepared annual product roadmap and strategy to enable the next phase of 10x growth trajectory. - Planned and integrated information from 12 spreadsheet trackers to a central BI Dashboard to track Contract Manufacturing KPIs. - Initiated UI/UX revamp in SCM for streamlining process critical information on system dashboards.
Associate Product Manager Fellowship at NextLeap, Oct 2021 - Nov 2021 · 2 mos, Swiggy Plans - An order recommendation system that suggests personalized orders based on user profile and behavior on the platform, in order to significantly reduce the user's choice conundrum. (Swiggy Suggest was launched in 2022 with a similar vision and implementation)
Associate Consultant (Product) at Infosys, May 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Implemented SAP S/4HANA EWM for a $50B multinational client across 3 countries, reducing logistics and warehouse cost by $2M annually via RF-enabled bin tracking and optimised putaway/picking.
Associate Software Engineer at CGI, Oct 2016 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Built a multi-tenant automation testing platform using OCR & Java; reduced test lifecycle TAT by 45%.
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Symbiosis institute of Management Studies
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE