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title: "Manan Sethi - Deputy GM- Product, Developer Relations and Global Partnerships in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manan Sethi, 🚀 Developer Relations | Product | Global Partnerships | AR/VR | Robotics | AI | IoT @ Jio Tesseract | Ex-Truecaller | Ex-Gupshup | Ex-Wipro | Building the Future of Humanoids & XR based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, Canva Magic Studio, and Glean."
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# Manan Sethi on Tal

## Headline

🚀 Developer Relations \| Product \| Global Partnerships \| AR/VR \| Robotics \| AI \| IoT @ Jio Tesseract \| Ex\-Truecaller \| Ex\-Gupshup \| Ex\-Wipro \| Building the Future of Humanoids & XR

## About

I am a results\-oriented Developer Relations and Community Manager with over a decade of progressive career experience and significant achievements in high\-paced and challenging industries such as mining, automotive, and IT products and services\. My diverse background spans across presales, sales, marketing, developer relations, and community management\. I focus on developer outreach efforts to efficiently drive mindshare and adoption within the developer and startup communities\. I have built and driven targeted initiatives with ecosystem players like accelerators, co\-working spaces, industry platforms, and the investor community to evangelize products and services\. My expertise includes creating digital and offline channels such as focused hackathons, events and clinics, product hangouts, office hours, case studies, and partner\-led PR/blogs/social media communication\. I have also created and managed impactful content and starter kits for developer outreach and relations initiatives\. Currently, I handle Global Developer Relations and community operations at EMQ Technologies, where I am dedicated to fostering innovation and collaboration within the tech community\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

Canva Magic Studio

Glean

## Work experience

Deputy GM\- Product, Developer Relations and Global Partnerships at Jio Platforms Limited \(JPL\), Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Navi Mumbai, Product , Developer Relations and Global Partnerships

Global Developer Relations and Community Engagement at EMQ Technologies, Jul 2023 \- Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Planning and promoting partnerships and events, creating promotional materials and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes\. • Engaging with the developer community through various platforms, hosted Office Hour sessions to address queries, gather feedback, and foster a strong community relationship\. • Act as a bridge between the product development team and the user community, advocating for user needs, providing insights on market trends, and offering support to ensure a developer\-first approach in product enhancements\. About the company: EMQ is the world's leading software provider of open\-source IoT data infrastructure\. We are dedicated to empowering future\-proof IoT applications through one\-stop, cloud\-native products that connect, move, process, and integrate real\-time IoT data—from edge to cloud to multi\-cloud\. Our core product EMQX, the world's most scalable and reliable open\-source MQTT messaging platform, supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining 1M message per second throughput and sub\-millisecond latency\. It boasts more than 20K\+ enterprise users, connecting 100M\+ IoT devices, and is trusted by over 400 customers in mission\-critical IoT scenarios, including well\-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen and Ericsson\. Website \- www\.emqx\.io

Community Developer at EMQ Technologies, Jul 2023 \- Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, IoT/MQTT SaaS platform — developer community, product launches, partner ecosystem

Developer Relations Senior Manager at Gupshup, Aug 2021 \- Jul 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Created developer database of 40K\+ utilizing paid and organic channels through events and marketing • Created a new landing homepage for developers with API documentation and restructuring • Organized and Executed Gupshup's first ever Hackathon at an engineering college • Executed first ever RCS office hours for Gupshup in Nigeria \( Virtually\) with participation from Google and telecom operators \( MTN and Airtel\)\. • Created How to videos for evangelization of RCS platform to be hosted on website Launched Developer resources section on website \- Created How to/tutorials of Gupshup products and APIs hosted on Gupshup website\. • Built the Gupshup for Startups initiative \- Collaborated with the Sales organization to offer optimal discounts for startups, to catch them early and young\. • Generated 1403 leads through events and digital media for Gupshupfor startups initiative\. • Drive partnerships with Accelerators, Incubators, VCs and co\- working spaces to promote GFS

Global Developer Relations Manager at Truecaller, Dec 2019 \- Aug 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Converted commits to go live with key early stage but high potential startups and businesses with just a few months of joining • Built and managed New initiatives \- Egypt Market and Digital Agency partnership Model • Relationship building with key high impact accounts to create internal champions of Truecaller in them • Social Media outreach initiatives launched for B2B offerings • Monthly Newsletter initiative launched catering to 15K\+ Relevant Audience • Organized multiple offline and online developer events • Key partnerships for Egypt \- VCs and Agencies \( India\) About company: People use Truecaller to stay ahead\. It helps them know who’s getting in touch, filter out unwanted calls & SMS, and focus on what really matters\. The company provides a suite of unique services such as a dialer that offers caller ID, spam detection, messaging and more\. Truecaller’s mission is to build trust everywhere by making communication safe and efficient\. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, the company was founded in 2009 by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam\. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Atomico, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers\. For more information visit www\.truecaller\.com

Consultant at Wipro Limited, Jun 2016 \- Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos, bangalore, 1\. Contribution towards Innovation \- Experience Zone Technovation \- Actively engaged and participated in strategizing and execution of Technovation lab setup initiative\. Devising strategies to showcase futuristic healthcare demo \- population health management, elderly care, homecare and emergency care\. Researching and contacting device manufacturers\. Finding and analyzing Wipro solutions for integration\. Making agreements for partners selected\. Finding vendors for video making internally and externally strategic marketing team\. Deck preparation for showcasing technovation lab for higher management\. Visits for Demos from different device manufacturers to understand the technical capability and applicability in the technovation storyline\. Device list finalization with quotes from vendors\. Ideation for Dashboards to be displayed in the lab\. Script finalization Movement/ flow of events\. Content provided for HLS branding to be displayed at entry\. 2\. Organizational initiatives and awareness programs Questionnaire development for Newton \( Voice Assisted Bot\) performance Next survey\. Collection of Newton Responses from more than 15 ODC s across Bangalore \( Sarjapur and EC Campus\) and Chennai \( Shollinganalur Campus\)\.Newton Health Buddy Experience Development\- Displayed to CEO Wipro at conference\. Newton Health Buddy experience for HR AHM\. Marketing Mailers for IP & Innovation team branding\. Marketing content for Open House Kolkata\. Nominations filing of accounts for Wipro Leadership Awards 3\. Contribution towards IP drive Identification of IP s across service lines for applicability of HLS top accounts \.Understanding of the shortlisted IPs from a technical perspective, demos from Solution owners\. In contact with account teams for understanding the business perspective of implemented IPs\. Collection of Collaterals for IPs from solution owners, account teams, platform solution team\. OB and Revenue calculation from Trace and Accounts\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \(M\.B\.A\.\), IBS Hyderabad

Master's Degree, International Industrial Project Management, Universidad Pontificia Comillas

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