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title: "Anuj Shiva - Product Manager in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Anuj Shiva, Building Products so you can invest in the Global markets || Mesa’24 MBA || Ex-Cisco based in India. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and cursor."
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# Anuj Shiva on Tal

## Headline

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

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

claudecode

## 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

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