Headline

Product Management @Aditya Birla Group | IIM Ahmedabad | IIT Roorkee

About

Senior Product Manager with over 9.5 years of experience, including 5+ years in core Product Management (Supply Chain Analytics & Data Platform - EdTech Apps), 2+ years in Strategic Digital Initiatives (FinTech in Development sector), and 2+ years as a Senior Software Developer in start-ups (ecommerce and payments). Products have delivered an annual freight cost reduction of over ₹50+ Cr for a leading cement company. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad & IIT Roorkee, I have engaged with clients, driven product development & adoption, built user experience designs, and led multiple products of cross-functional agile teams of 7-8 (data engineers, scientists, developers, and QA) with hands-on depth in application development, ML solutions, data-pipeline automation & cloud architectures.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

antigravity

claude

gemini

Work experience

Volunteering Program – Data Platforms (Isha Outreach) at Isha Foundation, Jul 2025 - Apr 2026 · 10 mos, Coimbatore, About 5% of 22K applicants made it into this program in 2025 with participation spanning more than 50 countries worldwide, Sadhanapada is a 10-month residential program at the Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore focused on inner transformation and conscious leadership development. Alongside an intense routine of yoga and meditation, I built a CXO dashboard & data platform for Action for Rural Rejuvenation (Isha Outreach). Contributed in an environment of adaptive team structure and fluid roles. Led product strategy for a data infrastructure for agribusiness & rural sports covering 24 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO), 16K+ farmers, and ₹75 Cr in sales across rural Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Built the GC (CXO) Dashboard | Single source of truth for strategic & operational decisions | Informing a 10X growth strategy (24 to 200 FPOs) | Enterprise-grade analytics platform with minimal budget using Google Workspace + AI automation

Senior Product Manager, Group Data & Analytics at Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt Ltd, Feb 2022 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, - Built freight recommendation dashboards that reduced primary freight by 0.6% annually on a ₹6,000 Cr spend. Scaled adoption to 50+ manufacturing plants. Reused this in another business with a planned impact of ₹27 Cr. - The approach to freight optimization became an ABG-wide case study, which was published on ABG learning platform. - This tool predicted freight for 30K+ routes per fortnight using geospatial intelligence, ML clustering, and price-linearity algorithms, working with a cross-functional team, and client engagement. - Accelerated road network optimization (from 1.5 months to 1 fortnight per state) by automating the distance matrix generation using KNN and re-architecting ETL pipelines for 10 lac+ distance nodes. - Developed a procurement platform prototype that enabled monthly procurement planning for an in-situ power plant. - Program Managed & prepared deliverables for a Data Platform & Dashboard Assessment to the Chief Supply Chain Officer of a Chemicals group company

Chief Manager - Digital Platforms & Integrations at Sterlite Power, Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 · 4 mos, Mumbai, Gathered requirements, designed & built a Python/Flask tool to automate power transmission tower design, integrating AutoCAD and PLS Tower data to replace manual Excel-based workflows.

Lead - Products & Solutions (Consultant) at EdIndia Foundation, Apr 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Thane, Reported to Head, EdIndia | Leadership & Corporate Strategy | Product Strategy & Roadmap | User Design | IT Solution Design | Software Vendor Selection & Management | Project Delivery | Technology Budget Ownership ● Enhanced the Pragyan App v1.0 to enable more than 50K downloads in 5 months, a DAU of 3.4K, and MAU of 13K at its peak by public school teachers across RJ and MH. Made product & architectural scalability improvements, migrated the app from Digital Ocean to AWS for scalability during COVID. ● Built the product strategy and roadmap, designed user flows and wireframes, prioritized features, finalized the architecture, and managed project delivery through a vendor for Pragyan App v2.0 ● Part of the Leadership Team, reporting to Head, SEF | Responsibilities include Product Strategy & Management, User Design, Solution Design, Vendor Selection & Management, Project Delivery, Tech Budget Ownership ● Built a data visualization dashboard for District Education Officers, managed product strategy, roadmap, and development through a vendor.

Manager - Digital Initiatives at BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Ltd., Jun 2019 - Apr 2020 · 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Reported to CEO, Mr. Sasidhar Thumuluri | Strategic Digital Initiatives | Cross-selling Products | Business Planning for Pilots | FinTech Platform Program Management (IT & Data) | Agile project management | Cloud Infrastructure Deployment & Management

Young Professional - IT Initiatives & New Products at BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Ltd., May 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Senior Product Manager at Pay1, Feb 2015 - May 2016 · 1 y 3 mo, Mumbai, Reported to Co-founder and CTO

Software Developer at Purplle.com, Oct 2013 - Aug 2014 · 10 mo, Mumbai, Reported to co-founder and CTO

Education

MBA, PGP-FABM, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Master in Economics and Business Administration, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)