Product @Namma Yatri | Ex - AI @IBM | BTech + MBA

Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

New York, United States




Master of Business Administration
Masters' Union

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering
Savitribai Phule Pune University
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I have 4 years of work ex in Product, Software, AI & and UI-UX. My Achievements are listed below: LEADERSHIP: • World Rank 1, Administrator at winphoneanswers.com (Microsoft queries forum), 7000+ answers, 13000+ upvotes • Quickly ramped up on an AI website development project as a lead and received written appreciation from IBM Watson • Captain of a team in the Top 32, Activision Call of Duty Mobile Gaming World Championship 2020, Asia region ACHIEVEMENTS: • Won the Persistent ‘My Logo: My Story’ competition out of 3000+ people, featured on Persistent’s Instagram; Built AR • Content Creator: Instagram, and YouTube: Making content in humor and food safety, with a total of 500k+ views • Achieved 3rd place in a State-Level Karate Taekwondo Competition as a Green Belt, outperforming 300+ contenders SOCIAL: • Senior Manager, iMad NGO: Conducted recruitment drives, 6 events, secured sponsorships, managed 100+ volunteers • Teacher, Swapnapurti Foundation: Taught soft skills, mathematics, and photography to 120+ students in rural areas
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Associate Product Manager at Namma Yatri, Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, AI full stack builder (FSB) at a mobility company: DATA & CONVERSION PRODUCTS: • Increased cab completed rides by 21% by architecting an A/B dynamic pricing engine based on supply-demand and weather that adapts in real time • Led data team to build primary analytics dashboards, enabling real-time visibility into funnels for leadership across all active cities. • Decreased user cancellations in Kolkata from 22% to 18% by launching cancellation charges; developed valid cancellation logic • Built Driver ETA algorithm using historical & current speed data without traffic APIs; reduced user cancellations by 10% in Delhi D2C PRODUCTS: • Pioneered Auto Priority, an industry-first reliable offering, accounting for 13% of total auto rides with 66% exclusive retention rate • Launched industry-first cross-variant Pet Category. Scaled to 600+ daily rides, led GTM to capture a high-growth niche segment • Reduced Sedan trip complaints by >70% by launching "Sedan Premium", which prioritizes top-rated drivers and modern vehicles • Owned end-to-end scalable product lifecycle by using a "People → Process → Tech" philosophy; managed the critical path from CXO-aligned roadmapping and data-driven impact estimation to PRD, design, tech, testing, and post-launch performance tracking. AI & FULL STACK BUILDER (FSB): • Vibe coded Fare Policy builder for city teams, slashing pricing change time taken from hours to just 4 minutes. Designed a simplified UI for 90+ variables; integrated live fare simulator, change logs & rollbacks, health checker to prevent critical pricing failures • Engineered a surge pricing json viewer & generator, empowering city teams to manage surge algorithms without tech intervention. • Eliminated 100% engineering dependency for city launch by deploying self-serve dashboard, reducing time from 6 hours to 5 mins • Building and tracking scalable products across Namma Yatri, Bharat Taxi, Kerala Savari, Odisha Yatri, Yatri Sathi and Lynx (Europe)
Product Manager at WarpDrive Tech Works, Jun 2024 - Dec 2024 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I was heading an HRMS Product. User Research and Data Analysis: • Conducted primary user research interviews of an HR team of 6 to identify gaps, optimized by enabling data-driven decision-making • Enhanced the product’s database schema to capture all the key data points in the hiring funnel, driving better analytics dashboard • Leveraged PostgreSQL queries to extract and analyze data, created reports and built a self-serve platform to empower the teams • Prototyped and refined 3 features (Onboarding, Training Programs, and Payments) on Coda and Asana before final product definition Core Product Strategy and Product Roadmaps: • Collaborated with Tech, UI/UX, CXOs to align on business goals and built 3-month roadmap by calculating efforts and critical path • Represented product in cross-functional meetings to gather product requirements, shorten feedback loops, boost feature activation • Prioritized features through backlog grooming, translating them into 20+ feature requirements, organized them into weekly sprints • Conducted market research, competitor analysis; Hosted B School case competition on Applicant Tracking System to gather 97 ideas Execution and Impact: • Developed 4 HR dashboards, improved talent acquisition visibility, candidate source quality, increased interview-to-offer rate by 33% • Led a 0 to 1 redesign of the leave management app with an approval workflow, improved project planning visibility by 80% • Built utilization app for project managers to show project allocation, employee workload, day-wise efforts to enable resource planning • Drafted weekly release notes, engaging directly with 200+ users, resulting in an 85% engagement, 62% increase in feature adoption Also worked on: • Collaboration (B-school campus placement drive, B2B partners onboarding) • HR Strategy (Performance management, Employee engagement, Incentivise, L&D, org design)
Software Engineer (AI) at IBM, Nov 2020 - Aug 2022 · 1 y 9 mo, New York, United States, Worked with IBM Watson's AI division as a Persistent Systems employee through a staffing engagement. LEADERSHIP: • Launched a website as a product owner in 4 months (25% less than estimated), leading cross-functional teams, tech, UI/UX, QA • Responsible for selecting optimal web technologies for building products, achieving a 30% reduction in page reloading time • Worked with IBM Distinguished Research Scientists and Managers to present project timelines, after gathering & prioritising requirements BUSINESS IMPACT: • Built an end-to-end one-click AI diagnosis app for dermatologists in Africa using ReactJS, increasing user adoption by 80% • Led customer feedback operation, resolved 40+ Jira tickets & acted as a bridge between clients from six countries • Developed an AI that enabled users to input data once and receive outputs from 6 IBM AI services reducing TAT by 300% • Built AI applications for IBM Watson.X across AIF, AIX, UQ, ART, AFW, AI Privacy
Master of Business Administration, Masters' Union
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University