Pranay Mankad Email & Phone Number

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Worked as the Product Manager for the KnowledgeBase (since June 2019) and Integrations team (Nov 2021 onwards). 1) Drove roadmap and product vision from a Synopsys tools perspective, helping develop new product features for Black Duck and SIG portfolio tools. 2) Developed, maintained and managed an OnPrem offering of the product bringing in close to ~20M$ in revenue YoY and enabling sales in previously restrictive markets.3) Prioritized, planned and delivered new improvements on the basis of trends driven by analytics. 4) Investigated and routed escalations for time sensitive issues for better a B2B experience for customers including follow ups for potential improvements to current product usage practices. 5) Engaged with field, support and marketing teams, collaborating on issue management, feature education to facilitate transparency, clarity and effective sales. 6) Worked closely with Solutions Architecture teams to encourage adoption of best practices, utilize data effectively and help make customers successful through custom solutions. 7) Drove internal process improvements for efficient communication through customer channels. 8) Worked with engineering on identifying new product use-cases to build and improve upon existing product features. 9) Engaged in partnership with popular Linux distributions to enable engineering on metadata consumption and deliver enhanced coverage of OSS for users.10) Participated in OSS outreach initiatives, contributing towards the drive to better metadata delivery and encouraging moves to better the state of OSS risk information. Recognized across multiple instances by the field and organization to be able to address nuanced observations from customers and provide an unbiased view point into the issues at hand.

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Worked with the KnowledgeBase team to: 1) Investigating and writing new automation for open source forges- Increase OSS detection to provide coverage for security and compliance risks2) Owned the development, testing and publication for an On Premise offering for the Black Duck KB - Assisting customers on how to set up and use the offering- Worked on automation of publication processes- Assisted in testing and process improvements around end to end delivery3) Worked with cross-functional teams to address gaps in detection- Primary point of contact for customer facing questions related to coverage of open source forges- Assisted customers and field teams in investigating customer reported issues- Assisted in establishing best practices in a customer context

Greater Boston Area

Continued Internship with KnowledgeBase team working on the Testing Framework establishment and handover.

Burlington, Massachusetts

The KnowledgeBase is the backbone of the Black Duck by Synopsys with over 10 years worth of data when it comes to open source project information. However, with big data, come big challenges. My main aim as an intern was to build a testing rig to check for consistency in the information that the product delivered.1) Designed a automated test framework to conduct end to end tests on the application. - Containerized the entire application using Docker- Used a PostgreSQL database to store information retrieved- Analyzed and published the information using automated report generation using Splunk- Automated build and execution using Jenkins and Git2) Set up infrastructure to support the heavy test scenarios- Tackled timeouts, synchronization issues using custom application configurations- Used Fabric libraries in Python to automate creation and restart of new instances if required

Mumbai Area, India

Worked on two major projects: 1) Worked on creating an eCommerce web application which enabled buying music online. This project was a training exercise that lasted 4 months.- Started with basic Java EE framework and later moved on to JSP Servlets. - Worked with Spring and Hibernate to create a template from the eCommerce website. - Worked on a material design with flat layouts for an immersive and smooth user interface.- The final product was delivered in time and deployed by the client. - We were awarded a achievement for leadership and communication.2) Worked in a team supporting web applications for a North American Insurance provider. - Primarily the team was responsible for developing and delivering applications and in-house tools for the clients. The clients were major in the Insurance field, based out of Richmond, VA.- Web applications were developed using AngularJS 1.6, with a DAO layer supporting Hibernate, transactions performed using REST protocols and rendered in a custom designed interface.- Tools were developed in PHP, with a OracleDB as a backend. Tools were used by employees to support and deliver services to the end user.- Lead client communication, coordination activities while working with them for potential business process improvements and saved around $ 50000 a year using automation techniques and custom tools.- Lead the team for a period of 6 months, carrying out transitions and knowledge transfer between 4 new employees. - As a secondary task, coordination between teams during application maintenance and unexpected outages. - Maintained coordination between developers and support teams at level 1 and 3 to ensure clear communication. - Managed the team and coordinated tasks at an inter-account level to boost productivity and enhance employee satisfaction.

Masters In Information Systems, Information Systems

Embarked on a Masters degree in Information Systems, batch of 2018. - Took up Application Engineering and Design, User Experience.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Annual Function Organization, Photography, Monthly Magazine and Student Organization Planning.