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MD & India Center Head @ Xome (Rocket Group) | AI + PropTech | Scaling Product & Engineering Teams

About

Every product I've built starts with one question: Does this move the business needle? Over the past 19+ years, I've operated at the intersection of product strategy, engineering leadership, and business transformation — with a consistent track record of turning technology investments into measurable ROI. My career has spanned retail (Tesco), loyalty & fintech (Payback), real estate technology (Altisource — Hubzu & Equator), logistics (Deliveree), and now mortgage & proptech (Xome / Rocket Group). Today, as Head of Product & Technology at Xome India, I lead a 100+ member cross-functional organization spanning Product, Engineering, Program Management, QA, and Data. We build AI-powered platforms that are modernizing real estate investment transactions — from property discovery and auctions to closing and post-sale management. Under my leadership, the India center has grown from the ground up into a full-scale product and engineering hub delivering cloud-native, ML-driven solutions like xBid™ (remote foreclosure auctions across 12+ states) and the FHA Asset Optimizer (reducing credit losses by 10–15%). What I'm known for: → Building and scaling product & engineering teams from zero — hiring, structuring, and growing high-performance orgs in complex, regulated domains. → Being an early and intentional adopter of AI/ML — embedding intelligence into product design, not as a bolt-on, but as a foundational layer. → Driving ROI-first product strategy — every roadmap decision I make ties back to revenue, cost reduction, or operational efficiency. → Bridging global and India operations — creating India-based product centers that are not just delivery arms, but true innovation hubs with ownership and accountability. Previously, I served as Vice President at Altisource, leading product and technology for Hubzu.com (one of the largest online real estate auction platforms in the U.S.) and EQUATOR® (the industry-leading default asset management platform). I've also built technology teams in the logistics space at Deliveree and in retail at Tesco. I'm always open to connecting with fellow product & technology leaders, real estate/proptech innovators, and executive recruiters focused on CTO / CPO / CXO roles. Let's talk: skyline.239@gmail.com mobile (IN) +91 9886646823 (WA)

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

Head of India Center @ Xome (Rocket Group, NASDAQ: RKT) | AI & LLM-Powered PropTech at Xome, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, I run Xome's India Center — a 100+ member product, engineering, and operations organization building AI-powered platforms for one of the largest mortgage ecosystems in the U.S. (Rocket Group, NASDAQ: RKT). When I stepped in, the India center was at an inflection point — a talented team with significant potential that needed the right structure, strategy, and culture to unlock its full capability. I saw an opportunity to transform it into something much bigger. I restructured the organization into outcome-aligned PODs, introduced product layering so teams own entire problem spaces end-to-end, and overhauled our staffing strategy to close capability gaps and bring in the right talent. I also drove early and aggressive LLM adoption across engineering and operations — embedding AI-assisted workflows into daily execution, not as an experiment, but as a core productivity multiplier. Today, this is a high-performance organization that ships with speed and quality. We build and own platforms like xBid™ (remote foreclosure auctions live across 12+ states and 1,100+ counties) and the FHA Asset Optimizer (projected 10–15% reduction in credit losses). The India center now operates as a true innovation hub with full product ownership and deep trust from U.S. leadership. Always happy to connect with fellow GCC/India center leaders, PropTech builders, or anyone scaling product & engineering teams across geographies.

VP of Products at Xome, Apr 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Head of Product at Deliveree On-Demand Logistics (Southeast Asia), Sep 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Deliveree: With the largest truck fleet in Southeast Asia, Deliveree provides businesses with first, mid, and last-mile transportation for road freight and cargo delivery. Our services include first, mid, and last-mile transport for goods and merchandise inside cities as well as across the country in Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand. Lead the go-to-market strategy against the roadmap defined with stakeholders. Leading a team of 20 product folks across four locations - Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Roadmap planning and execution

Vice President at EQUATOR®, Sep 2020 - Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Vice President, Head of Product at Altisource, Sep 2019 - Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Hubzu is an online real estate auction house specializing in the sale of bank-owned and foreclosed homes. Directed Product Management, User Experience/Visual Design, and Product Analytics for Hubzu, an online auction marketplace that sells over 32, 000 single-family homes per year. Relaunched website to pivot from insertion fee to auction business model. • Drove auction product adoption to increase revenue by 6x in four years to over $210 million • Launched a new user experience that increased bids and offers by 50%, achieved record sales, and reduced marketing spending by 29% • Quadrupled production release velocity by shifting from waterfall to agile development • Built Analytics and Optimization, Inventory Operations, and User Experience teams • Professionalized the Product function by introducing Lean Startup and portfolio management

Director Product Management at Hubzu, Jun 2016 - Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore, Hubzu is an online residential real estate auction house specializing in the sale of bank-owned and foreclosed homes. - Envisioned and supervised programs from its inception, which decreased fallouts by 15%, increased conversions by 20%, and the overall revenue by 6x in a span of 4 years. - Conceptualized a new revenue stream for the foreclosure process into the digital platform of Hubzu and delivery, bringing in new institutional clients, 30000+ fresh inventory, and potential revenue of 250+ million. - In my current role, am spearheading the delivery of Real estate solutions for buying homes online for the US market which includes building a product roadmap, and collaborating with all the key stakeholders such as Business Partners from Ocwen, Legal, and Compliance Counsel for effective delivery. - As a process improvement, brought in a fast-moving, metrics-driven, hypothesis-based culture with the OKR process to achieve the above-mentioned deliverables. - I have been instrumental in the implementation and adaptation of Agile methodology for delivery which enabled businesses to reduce time to market from 8 weeks to 2 weeks. - I have been leading product enhancements for user experience which has resulted in increasing bids and offers by 50% and achieving record-high sales while reducing marketing spend by 30%. - Responsible for optimizing the marketing spend by leveraging product enhancements. - Responsible for managing the risks by adhering to the US regulations of the Real Estate Act. - Responsible to ensure HUBZU product is 100% in compliance with all regulations act of the USA - My contributions played a significant role in our product Hubzu, bagging the 2013 HousingWire REtech 50 winner and the 2017 HousingWire Tech 100 winner.

Senior Product Manager at Hubzu, Oct 2014 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos, Hubzu is an online residential real estate marketplace that makes it easy for consumers, investors and brokers to buy and sell homes. From start to finish, Hubzu provides an entirely online experience – from searching and bidding to financing and closing. Currently i oversee the Core product operations for Hubzu. •Have been one of the key players in improved the YoY revenue growth in Hubzu by leveraging auction mechanism. 2014 saw a 4X growth in sales. • Led an initiative to identify the gaps on business critical touch points by leveraging instrumentation to improve conversions • Have been instrumental in the implementation of custom made features for Hubzu which has seen improving sales price of all assets sold, by reducing the Days on market • Leverage the analytic models to improve the search rankings of all Institutional clients who have partnered with Hubzu • Motivated the team to adhere two week sprint cycles from 4 weeks by adhering to agile methodology principles. • Have been steadily and quickly moved up from the position of Assoc Product manager , Senior Product Manager (2013-2014).

Product Manager at Hubzu, Apr 2014 - Oct 2014 · 7 mos

Education

BE, Electronics and communication, Visvesvaraya Technological University

High School, Science, St Germains High School