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POP UPI | Growth & Product | NIT-Trichy

About

Hello! I'm Naresh, building India's best payments app at POP, a Razorpay company. Previously, I worked in the product and business teams of Zolve (cross-border neobank), Perfios (banking SaaS) and SaveIn (Buy Now Pay Later). I’m an engineer from NIT-Trichy, India and throughout my academic journey, I've actively sought diverse opportunities, gaining experience in graphic design, app development, consulting, and data analytics. I've also held significant leadership roles in college, consistently delivering appreciated results. I aspire to build great tech and make a difference doing it. I get into a lot of Wikipedia rabbit holes and they tend to be related to history, technology, random sciences or people's life stories. Nowadays, the searches are gravitating towards startups. Outside of my work, I love volleyball, reading novels, and sitcoms. Feel free to reach out to me here - Inbox is always open :)

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

hermes agent

Wispr Flow

Work experience

Entrepreneur in Residence at POP, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Founder’s office - new initiatives Getting better at why

Growth Manager at POP, May 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo, On-site, Owned UPI numbers - Worked for Rahul Soni on planning budget to running ads to partnerships to activation to retention Rated 5/5, awarded "game changer" for setting new standards of excellence at org level

Product Manager at Zolve, Feb 2025 - May 2025 · 4 mos, Led a cross-functional team of 8, owning engagement and retention metrics at Zolve (Fintech super app in US - credit cards, bank accounts, remittance, bill payments, loans)

Associate Product Manager at Zolve, Mar 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr, Led projects with data, insights, ideas and execution with cross-functional teams Hardskills: SQL, MetaBase, MixPanel, Jira, CleverTap, MoEngage, Figma, Excel etc.

Product Management Intern at Zolve, Dec 2023 - Mar 2024 · 4 mos, 1 from 4 interns to get a PPO to join the product team as an APM Owned product analytics, user research, user communications and other product operations across core banking, acquisition, onboarding, retention projection

Summer Intern at Britannia Industries Limited, Jun 2023 - Jul 2023 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, o Received an offer to join back. o Conducted Root Cause Analysis, pilot runs, presented recommendations and roadmap to reduce the amount of stabilizers (high cost) by 9% added to all dairy products. o Reported to the head of New Product Development & Product Improvement Center.

Co-Founder at CohortZ, Mar 2023 - Dec 2023 · 10 mos, o CohortZ was a social networking mobile application aimed at the student community. o Successfully completed alpha, beta testing and launched to 90 paying customers. o Assembled and led a three-tier team of tech and design expertise. o Executed effective online and offline marketing strategies and participated in competitive pitches. o Failed primarily due to the poor business model. Will learn and get back.

Founding Team at The Product Folks NITT, Jan 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Tiruchirapalli

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

CBSE, Mathematics and Computer Science, Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School