Akshat Kumar Email & Phone Number

United States

Durham, North Carolina, United States

‣ Defining the vision & roadmap for 'as a service' commerce platform focused on modular microservices to enhance retail experiences.‣ Partnering with pre-sales and DevOps to optimize the SaaS pricing model, aligning with the platform strategy and key milestones.

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

‣ Defined the product vision and AI strategy for a software product. ‣ Led the product roadmap, go-to-market plan, and customer interviews for a generative AI feature. ‣ Formulated epics and prioritized user stories for the engineering team, aligning the roadmap with business objectives.‣ Formulated user workflows, cost structure, and UX testing framework for the AI product.

‣ Led the roadmap and feature development of an AI productivity platform for career coaches with user research, market analysis, and agile prototyping.‣ Conducted 25+ user interviews to identify pain points in journey maps and prioritized features to elevate the user productivity by 33%.

Consulting Practicum Program at Duke University‣ Ideated Go-to-Market Strategy with CEO to identify high-potential social media creators for investment.‣ Defined KPIs and built a financial modeling framework to project creator revenue growth through channel metric analysis with 96% accuracy.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Enterprise product: Azure Landing Zone‣ Led the product vision, strategy, and implementation of the product, till launch. ‣ Automated features/processes using Python and Azure DevOps, bolstering data security and saving $10,000+ annually.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

‣ Co-founded a 200-member club to ideate, validate, execute, and launch innovative FinTech products. ‣ Empowered 450 associates by leading personal development webinars on personal finance, budgeting & and taxes.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

B2B product: Terraform Enterprise (Infrastructure as Code team)‣ Developed and prioritized feature modules for the product based on customer needs, reducing application/feature Time-To-Market by 90%. ‣ Implemented Jobs-to-Be-Done focused pipeline to test product features, reducing manual testing tasks by 78%.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Muskaan Dreams Project‣ Oversaw market research strategies and developed a Monitoring and Evaluation system for an NGO aimed at digitizing classrooms in public schools, enabling teachers to adopt more effective teaching techniques, yielding a 35% grade improvement.‣ Executed gap analysis and outcome measurement using dashboards to track students’ progress.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

B2C Software Product: ClearOne‣ Conducted customer interviews and collaborated with the design team to identify pain points in the user journey on the product website.‣ Transformed website user experience by executing A/B testing, revamping design, and developing 4 key features and driving user adoption.‣ Enhanced website uptime and data accuracy by 15% through RESTful API integration with user database.

Delhi, India

‣ Identified customer data patterns in client orders using Google Analytics and tackled fewer orders by orchestrating a targeted Google AdWords campaign, resulting in a 3% surge in CTR of the client’s website.‣ Executed SEO marketing strategy to run precise ads for target customer segments, reducing average Cost Per Acquisition by $4.

Master In Engineering Management, Engineering/Industrial Management

Product Management Track Relevant Coursework: Design Thinking and Innovation, Marketing, Management in High-Tech Industries, Competitive.

Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Science And Engineering, 8.69/10

Relevant Coursework: Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Programming, Java Programming, Marketing Management