Headline

Staff Product Manager @ Walmart | Ex-startup founder

About

I am a Product Manager and an entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience building products. Specialties: AI, Product strategy, road mapping, building zero to one products and scaling them, building teams, research (market/user/competitor), wireframing, documentation and making data+empathy driven decisions.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude

gemini

ChatGPT

Kling AI

Suno

Work experience

Staff Product Manager at Walmart Global Tech India, Sep 2023 - Present · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Product Manager at Walmart Global Tech India, Jul 2020 - Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Product Manager at Hush - Community for Employees, Nov 2018 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Hush is a social platform to discuss workplace and career-related issues. Professionals from different companies can freely engage in discussions and help each other by sharing information on the platform. • Owned product strategy and roadmap for hush.company website (1 million monthly users) and Hush Mobile app (1.5 Lakh+ downloads across iOS and Android platforms) • Collaborated with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams including design, content, engineering and growth. • Devised and executed offline and online growth campaigns and content strategies. • Conducted user research through customer interviews and career workshops. • Led 2 product management interns to reach out to 80+ companies, list their openings on Hush and build the Jobs product. • Led the Hush Expert program which helped users get real value through advice from career coaches, counsellors and mental health experts. • Worked closely with the founders to develop a monetization strategy and launched the MVPs • Technology stack: React, MongoDB, MySQL, Azure, Python(AI/ML for content categorization and moderation), PHP, Android, iOS.

Product Manager at Telyport, Mar 2018 - Nov 2018 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Telyport is a startup in the on-demand hyperlocal logistics space. - Built the product team and set up the Bangalore office. - Reduced the time to market by 3 months by coming up with a MVP concept that powered 3000+ deliveries. - Gathered requirements, developed user stories, user personas and relevant documents from scratch. - Managed product development by planning and running sprints and interfacing with all stakeholders. - Solved technical challenges and also developed internal dashboards using Angular with Typescript. Tech stack: Android, iOS, Firebase, Angular, Typescript

CEO/Co-founder at wlend, Dec 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore, wlend is a startup in the e-commerce/product rentals domain. - Primarily owned Product, strategy and expansion - Worked across all verticals (product - marketing - finance and so on). - Operated in 2 cities[Bangalore and Pune] with an extremely lean team - Carried out over 500 deliveries and interviewed customers - Cash-flow positive since October 2016 - Awarded the KBITS startup scholarship by the Government of Karnataka - Accelerated by NUMA Bengaluru in its Season 2 batch [August 2016 - January 2017] - Member of NUMA Alumni network - Member of Global Accelerator Network Tech stack : Phase 1 - Java, Angular, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Android Phase 2 - Shopify, Python

Tech Lead at Buzzfactr Technologies, Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 · 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Managed the development of Plento, A mobile wallet - Developed Product strategy and Roadmap - Worked with developers, designer, founders and other stakeholders to deliver the MVP - Developed and launched responsive websites/landing pages for the company and the product. Tech stack : Mongo, Express, Angular, Node

Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and engineering, Reva University