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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Led cross-functional teams of 16+ members, defining product requirements, managing backlogs, and ensuring timely delivery of releases.Aligned product strategy and roadmap planning in collaboration with leadership teams and key business stakeholders thereby managing stakeholder expectation for release deliverables, by highlighting estimates, risks and dependencies.Implemented agile methodologies, conducting sprint planning, daily standups, and incrementally releasing products, boosting deliverables by 30%.Partnered with design and analytics teams utilising tools to develop a user engagement strategy, increasing DAU by 20% and conversions.Recruited and mentored new hires, building high-performing product teams of engineers and testers from scratch.Translated customer feedback to developers as prioritised tickets based on business value and strategy.Strategised a complete revamp of API architecture and data processing with the dev team, enhancing app usability by 60% through cross-team collaboration.Authored technical specifications and documentation, streamlining communication across diverse teams and stakeholders.

Bengaluru Area, India

Product: Murmur - A decentralized microblogging platform on blockchainLed the development of the microblogging platform on the EOS blockchain, ensuring scalability and robustness through smart contracts. Utilizing MERN stack and React Native for frontend, and Node.js powered by MongoDB for backend, crafted a seamless and user-friendly platform through extensive research and design considerations.Teamed up with the design and marketing teams to define the platform scope. Led a team of 3 software engineers to develop and release an MVP within 2 months. Achieved over 1000 signups within the first 2 weeks of the alpha release.Executed weekly sprints for feature releases, resulting in production rollout in 4 months. Achieved 3000+ signups and about 150 DAU, primarily through an incentive program co-created with marketing and design teams.Regularly engaged with users across multiple platforms and community groups to gather valuable feedback. Translated this feedback into actionable bug fixes and UI/UX improvements, releasing updates on a weekly basis.Also introduced a new feature - community voting to take down poor content - derived from user feedback, created by leveraging Google fact checker API resulting in a 10% increase in user engagement within 1 month of the rollout.

Bengaluru Area, India

Revamped legacy codebase on the Ruby on Rails (ROR) MVC framework and MySQL database, enhancing performance and maintainability. Overhauled more than 5000 lines of legacy code while developing 15+ new modules to modernize the product and ensure scalability.Improved various SQL queries used in older modules of the system reducing query time by over 400%.Led ChromeOS product development, and successfully launched the product in 4 months.Utilised Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to create a tool that helped with analyzing and debugging server logs, saving critical man-hours spent on analysis and speeding up delivery and business processes.

Bangalore, India

Wrote a domestic server for daily logs indexing in Ruby. Developed a portal using Ruby on Rails(ROR) for easy searching and analysis of server logs.

Chennai Area, India

Funded by The National Internet Exchange of India(NIXI). Aim to create an India centric search engine with clustered results.