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Building Products so you can invest in the Global markets || Mesa’24 MBA || Ex-Cisco

About

Hey There!! I am Anuj Shiva, a FinTech PM at Appreciate. I’m also the alumni of Mesa School of Business in their flagship program, PGP in Startup Leadership. I'm a former Team Lead at Cisco, with over five years in a Customer-Centric role. I possess extensive experience and knowledge in Problem-Solving, Stakeholder Management and Leading Teams. ​My passion for products is unbridled and I am constantly seeking to stay up to date with the latest advancements in the field. I'm always up for a chat to discuss the latest advancements in Products or Business Strategies. Feel free to buzz me or email me at anuj_shiva@pg24.mesaschool.co

Location

India

AI stack

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Work experience

Product Manager at Appreciate, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Spearheading product development for US Stocks, Mutual Funds & Cross-Border Payments while advancing growth through funnel optimization and API integrations. STRATEGIC PLATFORM SCALING & ARCHITECTURE • Architected a parallel dual-vendor US Stock brokerage infrastructure; leading 0-to-1 discovery and the integration of ViewTrade alongside DriveWealth for intelligent B2C/B2B user routing and phased legacy migrations. • Executed a zero-downtime US stocks data vendor cut-over from Refinitiv to BridgeWise & Nasdaq, lowering costs by 40% while expanding insight quality for end retail users. • Delivered scalable B2B market data API and SDK solutions, onboarding clients like Yes Securities and MarketWolf to unlock incremental revenue streams. PRODUCT LAUNCHES & GROWTH OPTIMIZATION • Launched a core Mutual Fund feature, defining GTM strategy and securing top AMCs partnership that committed 50% of a co-branded marketing budget and KYC fees for users. • Led the 0-to-1 discovery and initial product architecture for a regulated lending API platform with YES Bank, designing the MVP to support compliant loan originations & KYC requirements for a 1.5M MSMEs TAM. • Re-architected Mixpanel instrumentation, standardizing event taxonomy to reduce onboarding funnel drop-offs by 15% and enable decision-ready insights. • Diagnosed onboarding friction using funnel and cohort analysis, driving UX improvements that increased onboarding completion by 25%. KEY SKILLS UTILIZED Product Strategy & Road-mapping, End-to-End Product Discovery, Data-Driven Decision Making, Funnel & Growth Optimization, Go-to-Market & Partner Enablement, Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership.

Senior Network Engineer (Shift Lead) at Prodapt, Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Represented Cisco with a focus on key clients namely Bank of America, Rakuten Mobiles & Vodafone India. • Led shift of ~25+ engineers to manage Bank of America Network Operations with 60,000+ network devices to ensure system availability of at least 90%. • Orchestrated seamless VoLTE services network traffic migration for over 4 lakh+ Vodafone users, facilitating a transition from a low-capacity to a high-capacity infrastructure and achieving 100% VoLTE user growth. • Led the migration of Idea subscribers to Vodafone infrastructure, to ensure a seamless transition for users to access internet services on the Vodafone Infrastructure end-to-end and eventually increasing market share to 35%. • Delegated, managed, prioritized, and expedited the timely resolution of over 100+ tasks daily across a diverse team of engineers to maintain backlogs under 350. • Collaborated with the Automation Team & provided them with timely feedback to receive alerts on WebEx to reduce TAT-breached tickets by 90% and maintaining a 100% acknowledgement SLA. • Averted a potential 100% network outage by swiftly identifying a communication failure between critical firewalls. • Developed and deployed a dashboard for real-time monitoring of unassigned tickets, leading to a 20% decrease in customer Response Time and improved productivity for a team of 9 engineers. • Streamlined the reporting process by automation of Network Summary Report thereby reducing TAT to 1 hour from 5 hours. Accomplishment • Achieved 4 accelerated promotions to Sr. Network Engineer (Team Lead) in 4.5 years (vs. company avg. of 7+ years).

Senior Operations Engineer at Prodapt, Apr 2020 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Network Engineer at Prodapt, May 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Post Graduate Program, Startup Leadership, Mesa School of Business

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya