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AVP Product @ kazam | eMobility Fleet | Energy | Enterprise SaaS | B2C CX

About

Product leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling software, hardware, B2B, and B2C products across industries like EV, Energy, Agri-Tech, Lifescience, Healthcare, Mobility, and IoT. I’ve led products at different stages — from R&D pilots and category-creating innovations to competitive SaaS growth journeys and enterprise platform scaling. My work spans operational technology, SaaS, and IoT solutions where I’ve driven modular product strategies, built feature pipelines, and unlocked new revenue streams through cross-module upsell. Comfortable navigating both high-growth startups and regulated enterprise environments, I enjoy structuring product orgs, delivering measurable operational outcomes, and identifying opportunities to turn operational problems into scalable business platforms.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

AVP - Product Management at Kazam, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Product Manager at Kazam, Aug 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Manager at Deloitte Digital, Aug 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, * Successfully harmonized and standardized the plasma donation management system across multiple regulatory and stakeholder states in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US), encompassing a total of 200 centers. * Deployed wireless integration of the plasma extraction machine for FDA trials, resulting in a 27 percent reduction in manual errors within a 6-month period. * Envisioned an enterprise service product across hardware, leading to a threefold increase in customer engagement and reducing the time to resolution by 2.5 times.

Product Manager - Hardware IoT at Carnot, Aug 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Mumbai, Carnot specializes in full-stack IoT Telemetry solution for customized applications in urban last mile mobility and precision agriculture farming, backed by Mahindra and Mahindra • Spearheaded mobility product development from idea generation and client requirement gathering to delivering 25k devices generating Rs 8 Cr in revenue in 12 months span. • Introduced low power feature on a fleet of 10k live bikes to increase standby time by 2.5 times impacting a huge decrease in operational cost by providing 3 days buffer for recovery of bikes. • Executed multiple software cycle updates to upgrade and solve software bugs by A/B testing on live fleet impacting decrease in non-operational bikes by 5-10 percent per week. • Aligned multiple stakeholders' requirements for internal and external clients, filling communication gaps while streamlining the delivery process to Mahindra and Mahindra and Bounce.

Embedded Design Engineer at SmartBeings Inc, Nov 2017 - Jul 2018 · 9 mos, India, WooHoo is a Smart speaker and AI assistant solution in the Home automation space for consumer and enterprise applications based out of Silicon Valley, CA. • Engineered proprietary communication protocols in ZigBee & Zwave for Home automation devices for connecting 20 types of IoT devices from G.E, Philips. • Managed the design phase(2 months) while working out of the Shenzhen office, scrutinizing & detailing the marketing requirement to Chinese design houses. • Facilitated stakeholders the software, marketing & design team by being SPOC for product development lifecycle.

Embedded Design Engineer at SENSE IT OUT, Nov 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Smart Irrigation and automation based deep IoT solution • Charted IoT architecture design for precision farming catering challenge of low network and low cost. • Engineered POC by reducing the BOM cost to only Rs 8k.

Education

GrowthX®

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University