With a background in technical Linux cloud customer support, I transitioned into Product Management, bringing a strong focus on user experience and problem-solving. My support experience has sharpened my ability to understand customer needs and turn feedback into actionable features, ensuring products are intuitive and effective.Key Assets:- Expertise in translating user feedback into product improvements.- Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams (development, sales, and support).- Focus on creating scalable, user-centric products that drive business value.- Quick learner and ability to juggle roles and responsibilities.- Balance of technical, managerial and sharp communication skills.- Driving data and key metrics to produce value.
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Product ManagerDigitalocean Jan 2023 - PresentKarachi East District, Sindh, PakistanAfter the successful acquisition by DigitalOcean, I was promoted to a leading position as product manager, where I continue to drive excellence in product development as we build on the foundation laid at Cloudways. My focus is on strategic product positioning, launching innovative features, exploring new market opportunities, securing new partnerships, and nurturing relationships with existing partners.• Spearheaded the implementation of numerous growth initiatives including adding… Show more After the successful acquisition by DigitalOcean, I was promoted to a leading position as product manager, where I continue to drive excellence in product development as we build on the foundation laid at Cloudways. My focus is on strategic product positioning, launching innovative features, exploring new market opportunities, securing new partnerships, and nurturing relationships with existing partners.• Spearheaded the implementation of numerous growth initiatives including adding multiple datacenter additions across multiple Cloud providers.• Successfully revitalized the DNS Made Easy Add-on and implemented targeted improvements and innovative strategies, leading to a 2X increase in customer adoption & resulting in a $70K growth acceleration.• I identified and addressed a critical technical issue that was contributing to higher-than-expected deactivations of Cloudflare services. By targeting this root cause and implementing effective solutions, we achieved significant results, including a 49.4% reduction in technical issue-related deactivations and a 7.8% increase in overall user retention. Additionally, the Customer Contact Index (CCI) improved from 23.61 to 16, reflecting a smoother user experience. Specific customer segments, such as freelance developers, saw a 49.6% decrease in deactivations, and affiliate marketing deactivations dropped by 37.4%. This initiative led to enhanced user satisfaction, improved retention rates, and better performance across multiple metrics, ultimately strengthening the stability and reliability of the Cloudways platform. Show less -
Associate Product ManagerCloudways Jun 2022 - Jan 2023Karāchi, Sindh, PakistanI am responsible for products' Lifecycle Management including product growth, End-of-life, maintenance, cash-burn reduction initiatives and introducing technical improvements to improve platform stability & efficiency.Some of my other duties include:• Spearheading core products of our offerings including Rackspace, DNS Made Easy, Elastic Email, Cloudflare Enterprise, Developers API, Backup & Restore Capabilities.• Implementation of numerous growth initiatives such as… Show more I am responsible for products' Lifecycle Management including product growth, End-of-life, maintenance, cash-burn reduction initiatives and introducing technical improvements to improve platform stability & efficiency.Some of my other duties include:• Spearheading core products of our offerings including Rackspace, DNS Made Easy, Elastic Email, Cloudflare Enterprise, Developers API, Backup & Restore Capabilities.• Implementation of numerous growth initiatives such as introducing in-house DNS management product which increased our growth for that product to $50k ARR.• Successfully revitalized the Rackspace Add-on and implemented targeted improvements and innovative strategies, leading to an increase in 5% in our ARR for the add-on• Responsible for documenting product improvements & maintaining them over confluence for all products that Cloudways offer, ensuring that the product knowledge remains intact internally within team.• Creating ROI reports of product improvements, depicting how the improvement improved the performance metrics, customer satisfaction & enhanced overall platform stability. • Developing Product Requirement Document for new releases & enhancements.• Conducting client interviews to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements.• Conducting new product/feature demos with internal departments to get them up-to-speed & giving them perspective on how they can engage & increase customer growth, retention & satisfaction.• Weekly cadence with Customer Success, Marketing and Support team to understand customer pain points.• Overseeing all stages of feature creation, including design and development.• Developing user stories.• Monitoring and evaluating feature progress at each stage of the process.• Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints.• Gathering data from mix-panel to observe patterns, engagement to enhance user workflows (using user-guides or better product placement on the platform). Show less -
Cloud EngineerCloudways Dec 2020 - Jun 2022Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan• Engage with customers over live chat and tickets• Pursing continuous learning & skill development courses• Abuse alerts monitoring and management• Application and server-level senior support to find solutions and fix their problems• Mentor people in the operations team• Write KBs to increase the knowledge base• Advanced Linux system administration support• Cloud management and administration on AWS, Google Cloud Engine, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and… Show more • Engage with customers over live chat and tickets• Pursing continuous learning & skill development courses• Abuse alerts monitoring and management• Application and server-level senior support to find solutions and fix their problems• Mentor people in the operations team• Write KBs to increase the knowledge base• Advanced Linux system administration support• Cloud management and administration on AWS, Google Cloud Engine, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode• WordPress support/management/tweaking - WP CLI• Magento 2 support/management/tweaking - Magento CLI• MySQL administration and performance tweaking• Web stack (apache/Nginx/varnish/Php-fpm) administration and performance tweaking Show less -
Associate Cloud EngineerCloudways Jun 2020 - Dec 2020Mosta, Northern Region, MaltaAs a part of the PlatformOps team, I will give my best efforts towards contributing in the dream to become the number one managed cloud hosting provider in our industry. ▪ Provide support and solutions to customers through tickets, chats, emails, etc.▪ Perform website migrations (Cpanel, SSH, SFTP)▪ Web Administration (Nginx, Apache, Cache Layers, MySQL etc)▪ Monitoring of services on production servers. (Sensu, Slack, New Relic)▪ Implementation of CDN (Stackpath… Show more As a part of the PlatformOps team, I will give my best efforts towards contributing in the dream to become the number one managed cloud hosting provider in our industry. ▪ Provide support and solutions to customers through tickets, chats, emails, etc.▪ Perform website migrations (Cpanel, SSH, SFTP)▪ Web Administration (Nginx, Apache, Cache Layers, MySQL etc)▪ Monitoring of services on production servers. (Sensu, Slack, New Relic)▪ Implementation of CDN (Stackpath, Cloudflare) for web applications▪ SMTP setup and debugging (Postfix Config, Mail Logs, Mail Queues)▪ SSL/TLS Implementation and debugging▪ Vulnerability remediation and server patching▪ Installing, configuring & managing IPtables, Firewall and Fail2ban for server security▪ Taking Backups and Restoring of Applications (Duplicity, MySQL Dump)• Disaster Recovery through backups▪ DNS administration (Nameservers, Records, Re-directions) Show less -
Trainee Cloud EngineerCloudways Feb 2020 - Jun 2020Karachi, PakistanWent through a rigorous and challenging training program (Aced the training and became the Star Performance of Linux Academy):• Hands on experience with Linux environment (Linux File System and Distributions, Bash Scripting, Cron Jobs, Daemons, Package Managers, User permissions and privileges)• Explored various command line tools (tcpdump, netstat, ifconfig etc) and protocols (SSH, telnet, SFTP, TCP, UDP)• DNS Concepts, Types of DNS Records and DNS Servers (BIND)•… Show more Went through a rigorous and challenging training program (Aced the training and became the Star Performance of Linux Academy):• Hands on experience with Linux environment (Linux File System and Distributions, Bash Scripting, Cron Jobs, Daemons, Package Managers, User permissions and privileges)• Explored various command line tools (tcpdump, netstat, ifconfig etc) and protocols (SSH, telnet, SFTP, TCP, UDP)• DNS Concepts, Types of DNS Records and DNS Servers (BIND)• Familiarity with Cryptographic Algorithms, Digital Signatures, Public Key Infrastructure, Public key exchange, SSL/TLS Handshakes.• Configuration of Web Servers (Nginx, Apache), Cache Server (Varnish), Handlers (PHP-FPM, FastCGI) and Database (MySQL)• Working on a Virtual Private Cloud (DigitalOcean)• Set up LAMP and LEMP Webstack.• Configured Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache• Built a Custom Webstack (Nginx + Varnish + Apache + PHP-FPM + MySQL) alongwith failover• Installation of CMS (Wordpress) on a Custom Stack• Debugging and Error Logging of Webservers using Access and Error Logs• Backup and Restore (Duplicity and MySQL Dump)• Explored Cloudflare and Implemented it's CDN on LEMP Stack. Show less -
InternPakistan International Airlines Jun 2018 - Jul 2018Pakistan▪ Gained experience and exposure of Engineering works in aeroplanes▪ Performed some experiments at Electronics Standard Lab & Radio Lab▪ Gain exposure of Aeronautics at Base Maintenance Area
Saad Ahmed Education Details
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Govt. Delhi CollegeA -
Federal Secondary SchoolA-1
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