Headline

Product Manager | LeanLight Solar | ex FireBirdVR

About

As a Product Owner at LeanLight Solar, I lead cross-functional teams to develop and scale Climate Tech products, directly contributing to the organization's mission of advancing sustainable energy solutions. With over six years of experience in software development and IT architecture, I specialize in bridging complex business requirements with technical execution to deliver scalable, impactful products. My expertise includes creating agile product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and transforming sustainability goals into actionable user stories. Previous roles have honed my ability to translate abstract ideas into technical blueprints and functional products, including a successful 0-to-1 product journey at FirebirdVR. I am motivated by fostering collaborative environments to streamline workflows, remove blockers, and ensure timely delivery of innovative solutions. My core proficiencies in user stories, Docker, and FastAPI enable me to align technical execution with business objectives effectively.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

hugging face

notebooklm

ollama

openai

Work experience

Product Owner at LeanLight Solar, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Pune City, Maharashtra, India, Leading cross-functional development teams to build and scale innovative Climate Tech products, driving LeanLight Solar’s mission for sustainable energy solutions. ​Bridging the gap between complex business requirements and technical execution, leveraging a six-year foundation in software development and IT architecture to ensure rapid, scalable product delivery. ​Owning the end-to-end product roadmap, translating sustainability goals into clear user stories, prioritizing features, and managing the backlog to maximize value delivery. ​Fostering a collaborative agile environment to streamline workflows, remove technical blockers, and consistently hit sprint milestones.

Product Owner at FirebirdVR, Apr 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr, 0-to-1 Product Governance: Owned the end-to-end product strategy and lifecycle for GuruVR, moving the platform from a raw pedagogical concept to a live ecosystem with 100+ sustained Daily Active Users (DAU). Technical Product Scoping: Authored comprehensive technical PRDs, user stories, and system workflows; bridged the communication gap between business goals and engineering execution to accelerate feature deployment by reducing alignment overhead. User-Centric Architecture: Personally defined the product scope and technical blueprint for the developer subdomains (cr.guruvr.ai and creator.guruvr.ai), turning complex 3D simulation authoring into intuitive, automated web workflows. Data-Driven Growth: Analyzed user interaction drop-offs and system usage logs to prioritize the product backlog, directly improving user retention and daily active engagement.

Full-stack Developer at FirebirdVR, Sep 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, System Architecture: Engineered the foundational creator studio network using React.js, Node.js, Python, and MongoDB, implementing role-based access control (RBAC) and high-throughput asset pipelines. Product-Minded Engineering: Translated abstract instructional frameworks into automated, scalable software tools, optimizing API structures for low-latency communication with the platform's core 3D engine.

Frontend Developer at Paexskin Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 · 9 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Contributed to the core frontend development of Athena, Kantar’s premier AI-driven marketing budget management platform used by Fortune 500 enterprises to optimize multi-million dollar spends. Enterprise UI Architecture: Built and optimized highly scalable, reusable UI components using React, TypeScript, Redux, and Tailwind CSS to simplify massive financial data visualizations and predictive AI budgeting models. Performance Optimization: Refactored legacy UI sections to drastically reduce page load times and improve state management efficiency across complex data dashboards.

Team Lead at Ollivander Robotics Pvt Ltd, Apr 2021 - Dec 2021 · 9 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Coordinated a cross-functional engineering team to build and launch a full-scale Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) prototype, successfully securing government innovation grants. Bridge Systems Engineering: Acted as the core interface between mechatronics hardware teams and full-stack software development teams to integrate low-level automated control systems with high-level web dashboards.

Digital Marketing Manager at RTOTAL, Oct 2020 - Mar 2021 · 6 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Brand Transformation: Spearheaded the comprehensive brand and visual overhaul for RTotal, a B2B AI-powered educational ERP serving over 1,000+ academic institutions. Strategic Positioning: Designed the company logo, defined the corporate color palette, and authored the core product tagline "School ka dost" to bridge the gap between complex software architecture and empathetic, trust-based customer relationships.

Education

BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University