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Simant Sekhar

Product Manager @ Credila || Ex-M2P, Ex-Lendingkart

Bengaluru

7+ years of work experience

Credila Financial Services Limited
Apr 20251 y 6 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

M2P Fintech
Apr 20232 yrs 5 mosAug 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Delivered Kotak-Flipkart BNPL project for Big Billion Day Sale, marking Finflux’s first BNPL initiative with seamless card integrations • Built Credila’s Multi crores Loan Book, Education Loan LMS from scratch as M2P’s first long-term loan suite supporting multiple loan products • Executed 5 major LMS/LOS implementations for Lightmoney, EPIFI Money, and FIA Global within 4-6 month timelines. • Reduced Mean Time to Resolve (MTR) from weeks to days through dedicated bug-resolution team establishment. • Managed API integrations, payment gateways, and PCI DSS compliance across all LMS platform implementations
Lendingkart
Jan 20221 yr 5 mosMay 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Helped obtain ISO certification initiative with successful VAPT assessments across all organizational systems • Negotiated vendor contracts achieving cost-reduction targets and earned “Frugal Negotiators” Shabaash Award for reducing costs by ~9% resource costsYear on year. • Implemented Agile best practices and JIRA administration, boosting engineering team productivity by 40%+ • Established production bug management reducing incident resolution time from months to seconds, by integration of Alert mechanism tools. • Developed custom BI analytics metrics for enhanced workflow efficiency and effort tracking
Simplilearn
Feb 202111 mosDec 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed annual training budgets and program calendaring for IT/software engineering requirements • Partnered with 50+ training specialists, SMEs, and business vertical heads to deliver L&D programs • Designed adaptive training strategies through job analysis and performance appraisals • Monitored trainee progress using advanced feedback analysis, improving completion rates by 25% • Revised programs to align with evolving tech industry demands and organizational needs
Simplilearn
Aug 20191 yr 7 mosFeb 2021

Bengaluru Area, India

Customer Acquisition: - Conversion of leads received from various marketing channel. - Preparing short-term & long-term sales plan, sales approaches and strategies. - Consistently achieve revenue targets in line with team/organizational objectives. - Fill gaps in the areas of Data Science upskilling and execution. Customer Relationship Management: - To understand customer requirement in the geography assigned and future product portfolio improvement based on past customer feedback. - Service offering improvement and continuous quality assessment. Operations and Reporting: - Service delivery planning and execution. - Managing pre-sales to post-sales support activities for the assigned geographies. - Sales forecasting, to understand the areas which need attention for an increase in sales numbers and reach to the customers.
Simplilearn
Aug 20191 yr 7 mosFeb 2021

• Revenue: generated revenue through customer relationships and course positioning, using Salesforce for pipeline management and forecasting.

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Education

C.V. Raman Global University

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

C.V. Raman Global University

20192019
C.V.Raman College of Engineering

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

C.V.Raman College of Engineering

20154 yrs2019

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Product Manager @ Credila || Ex-M2P, Ex-Lendingkart

About

Work Experience Summary ✔ Project & Program Management – Expertise in fintech projects including LMS, LOS, BNPL, and digital transformation. ✔ Key Projects at M2P Fintech: • Led Credila’s ₹7 Cr+ Education Loan LMS, ensuring smooth migration & compliance. • Delivered Kotak-Flipkart BNPL, enabling seamless card integrations & transactions. • Implemented LMS & LOS for Lightmoney, Epifi Money & FIA Global, driving large-scale digital transformation. ✔ Process Optimization: • Established governance frameworks & streamlined workflows within internal teams. • Reduced MTTR & MTA through automation & proactive monitoring. • Setup Bug resolution team at M2P fintech, categorised issues and helped overall LMS to enhance their systems. • Improved efficiency across finance, disbursement, payments, collections & analytics teams. ✔ Previous Role at Lendingkart: • Managed multiple fintech programs, optimizing vendor & partner management, Agile sprint planning & BI analytics. • Led ISO certification & compliance initiatives, ensuring data security & regulatory adherence. ✔ Technical & Leadership Skills: • Strong in stakeholder management, API integrations, JIRA, Agile methodologies & sprint planning. • Worked cross-functionally with developers, QA, business analysts & senior stakeholders to deliver scalable fintech solutions.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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codex

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Work experience

Product Manager at Credila Financial Services Limited, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 y 6 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Program Manager at M2P Fintech, Apr 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Delivered Kotak-Flipkart BNPL project for Big Billion Day Sale, marking Finflux’s first BNPL initiative with seamless card integrations • Built Credila’s Multi crores Loan Book, Education Loan LMS from scratch as M2P’s first long-term loan suite supporting multiple loan products • Executed 5 major LMS/LOS implementations for Lightmoney, EPIFI Money, and FIA Global within 4-6 month timelines. • Reduced Mean Time to Resolve (MTR) from weeks to days through dedicated bug-resolution team establishment. • Managed API integrations, payment gateways, and PCI DSS compliance across all LMS platform implementations

Program Manager - Tech at Lendingkart, Jan 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Helped obtain ISO certification initiative with successful VAPT assessments across all organizational systems • Negotiated vendor contracts achieving cost-reduction targets and earned “Frugal Negotiators” Shabaash Award for reducing costs by ~9% resource costsYear on year. • Implemented Agile best practices and JIRA administration, boosting engineering team productivity by 40%+ • Established production bug management reducing incident resolution time from months to seconds, by integration of Alert mechanism tools. • Developed custom BI analytics metrics for enhanced workflow efficiency and effort tracking

Associate Program Manager at Simplilearn, Feb 2021 - Dec 2021 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed annual training budgets and program calendaring for IT/software engineering requirements • Partnered with 50+ training specialists, SMEs, and business vertical heads to deliver L&D programs • Designed adaptive training strategies through job analysis and performance appraisals • Monitored trainee progress using advanced feedback analysis, improving completion rates by 25% • Revised programs to align with evolving tech industry demands and organizational needs

Sales Specialist, Data Science at Simplilearn, Aug 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Customer Acquisition: - Conversion of leads received from various marketing channel. - Preparing short-term & long-term sales plan, sales approaches and strategies. - Consistently achieve revenue targets in line with team/organizational objectives. - Fill gaps in the areas of Data Science upskilling and execution. Customer Relationship Management: - To understand customer requirement in the geography assigned and future product portfolio improvement based on past customer feedback. - Service offering improvement and continuous quality assessment. Operations and Reporting: - Service delivery planning and execution. - Managing pre-sales to post-sales support activities for the assigned geographies. - Sales forecasting, to understand the areas which need attention for an increase in sales numbers and reach to the customers.

Inside Sales Specialist at Simplilearn, Aug 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, • Revenue: generated revenue through customer relationships and course positioning, using Salesforce for pipeline management and forecasting.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, C.V. Raman Global University

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, C.V.Raman College of Engineering