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# Suraj Nayak on Tal

## 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

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