Oracle

Sr. Principal Product Mgr

Jan 2019 - Mar 2019

• Own the Go To Market for Oracle Social Cloud, one of the products of Oracle Marketing Cloud
• Responsible to Product marketing and product messaging across present and prospective customers

SureIT Inc.

Director, Product Mgmt.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2018

• Primary Product owner of two products viz. Political Party Management tool and BDPaaS [Big Data Platform as a Service]
• Own Go-to-Market strategies of the products
• Give domain direction on teams working on analytics and Data Science
• Documenting product functionality and technical documentation
• Discovery and meeting third-party solution providers/products/vendors and negotiating leveraging their solutions
• Building the Product development team right from scratch
• Leading operations including team structure, process evolution, infra and real-estate procurement

Gainsight

Sr. Product Manager

Sept 2015 – Nov 2016

• Responsible for delivery of two high-energy product development teams working on high-visibility solutions like Reporting & Analytics and Big Data Platform (30 team members)
• Built and engaged the teams while optimizing their productivity; Average team velocity increased by 30%
• Helped build functionality-heavy, minimal-service modules thereby increasing the market valuation of the company by 80% in a year
• Defined product strategy and roadmap for Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Data ingest and Transformations
• Managed and mentored a team of product managers
• Took initiative to deploy JIRA based program management module for executive stakeholders
• Introduced processes for documentation, release strategy, Go-to-Market strategy, cross-team collaboration and customer on-boarding
• Product ownership of Gainsight Reporting and Dashboards, for visualization and BI purposes of all data residing within Gainsight
• Defined core platform feature of Data Ingest using Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift and Mongo DB

InsideView Technologies

Data Engineering Manager

Mar 2008 – Sep 2015

• Was in the team from seed start-up stage and was instrumental in growing it to a self-sustainable SMB
• Started as an individual contributor and grew to manage two teams of data engineers and data scientists (18 team members)
• Lead the biggest refactoring project in InsideView migrating its base architecture to a Big Data architecture in 10 months and 27 team members
• Conceptualized and built features related to search, NLP, text similarity, recommendation engine, entity triangulation
• Part of the Design Team which instrumented a highly scalable Data Platform using Cloud and Big Data Stack including AWS, HBase, Hadoop, HDFS, Redshift, Oozie, Kafka etc.
• Product Owner for all the Data related features and designing the respective requirements
• Designed roadmap for data platform team
• Adopted and adapted Agile : Scrum & KanBan