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# Karthik Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Product Manager \- IBM Cloud Infrastructure

## About

Experienced and results\-driven Product Manager with over 10 years of success in driving network design, product planning, and platform strategy\. Proven track record in defining product vision and roadmaps, leading cross\-functional teams, and translating market needs into actionable epics and user stories\. Skilled in managing product backlogs, sprint planning, and executing go\-to\-market \(GTM\) strategies in close collaboration with marketing, sales, and engineering\. Adept at customer research, competitive analysis, and stakeholder management to ensure successful product launches and sustained growth\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

## Work experience

Product Manager at IBM cloud, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Product Manager for IBM Cloud, leading strategy and execution for Networking and VPN services in VPC\. Focused on delivering secure, scalable, and high\-performance cloud networking solutions that power enterprise workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments\.

Product Engineer at Cisco, Jan 2022 \- May 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Prioritize backlog items, practiced Agile Scrum methodology suing Jira with a close emphasizes on code quality and continues integration\. • Monitor the Nightly Build performance and resolve customer issues of end\-to\-end Network Controller setup\. • Develop detailed Product Requirements Document \(PRDs\), launch materials, customer presentations, videos, and podcasts • Configure, Test and Qualify Cisco NCS 2k and SVO devices for circuit services\. • Resolve critical bottlenecks in Automation for PCE Optical Network Controller\. • Engage regularly with customers & cross functional teams to gain an in\-depth understanding of their business processes & product needs, validate solutions & handle customer issues\.

Associate Product Manager at Nokia, Sep 2019 \- Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories with scrum teams\. • Work Closely with Product managers to manage full cycle of projects from planning & conception to requirements to testing, implementation & release/Support Phase\. • Managed backlog of user stories for 2 products simultaneously\. • Acted as liaison between business, sales, and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands\. • Led the transition of Hardware devices to cloud infrastructure and performed SWAT analysis\. • Guided key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle \(e\.g\., planning, development, launch, management, exit\)\. • Independently lea and drive the end\-to\-end strategy and operational product solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the Product’s life cycle\. • Translated features into user stories within the team’s backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder’s requirements\. • Partnered with IT &product leadership to drive, manage the solution development process, and ensure the product team understands the direction and vision\.

Senior Technical Lead at Nokia, 2018 \- 2019 · 1 yr, Bangaon Area, India, • End to End Product Testing o Outlined product vision for 6 new products and created actionable strategy for bringing them to production\. o Develop/Automate the test cases using XML with CVS tool\. o Audited the product features, recorded 15 major defects & developed mitigation plans to help resolve risks\. • Agile/Scrum Development Roadmap: o Coordinated with team of 12, led them from initial planning to the final release\. o Qualification of Equipment, Routing, Service Configuration on router through SDN using SNMP, CLI for testing\. o Consulted with business & product owners to prioritize & shape the product backlog, via Agile practices\. o Used GIT, Jenkins, AWS Concepts, REST API's, Dockers, Kubernetes concepts for Testing Nuage \(VSD\) applications\. o Quality owner for 2 end\-to\-end modules in the customer solutions delivery\. o Perform traceability from JIRA backlog/feature to JIRA test cases and perform test reviews and approve each test case, test cycles, pass/fail\. • Training and Customer Satisfaction o Trained 15\+ internal and external customers daily on the benefit & capabilities of new product builds\.

Test Engineer at Tech Mahindra, Sep 2016 \- Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Qualifying Cisco and HPE switches and testing the network with Medical equipment’s connected on network and providing a stable configuration and efficient topology for the deployment team\. Roles and Responsibilities: • Device Exploration • Topology Design • Efficient Topology Design • Building Efficient Configuration • Execute Test cases based on testing functionality of devices • Verification of system by connecting all the ICU critical care monitor on the network • Documentation of the Verified results as per GE standards • Programming Language : Python, Java Basics • Device Types : Switches C2095, C3550 and Routers, C881K9, C2901, C4321 • L3 Protocols : IPv4, RIP, OSPF\. • L2 Protocols : STP, RSTP, VLAN, ARP\. • Other Protocols : TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP Protocols, ARP, HTTP • Testing Tools : Wireshark, Scapy traffic generator, IXIA\. • Operating System : Linux\(Ubuntu\), Windows • Certificates : CCNA

## Education

Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Quantic School of Business and Technology

Master of Technology \(MTech\), Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, RVCE

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