Karishma Shah Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

First PM of the web3 API, SDK & data platform at MetaMask, redefining and building the future of blockchain & fintech to make it accessible and usable for everyone, everywhere.- Owned in-house web3 data platform, MetaFi SDK and APIs for gas fees, token metadata, price data, multi-chain account balances and transactions, blockchain primitives, NFT, confirmations, phishing detection and smart transactions- Publicly launched robust multi-chain APIs to diversify revenue in collaboration with GTM, DevRel, Events, PR teams & external partners- Open-sourced MetaFi SDK for greater good of the web3 ecosystem - Enabled safer & 2X more engaging blockchain primitive experiences for +100Mn wallet users on 40+ networks & 4+ client platforms at >60% lower cost by leading in-house creation & growth of performant, reliable, scalable & cost-efficient web3 data aggregation services- Boosted a new team’s productivity 3X with inspiring north star vision & strategy and effective team processes, rituals, planning & hiring- Discovered viable market opportunities in AI for web3 data APIs via competitive analysis, developer research & hackathon sponsorship- Represented Consensys as speaker, partner and judge at EthIndia’23- Unblocked launch of Snaps, Linea, Smart Swaps, Buy/Sell, liquid Staking, Bridges and upcoming products with back-end support- Handled external 3rd party partnerships and internal cross-org relationships- Devised unique feature prioritization process, platform service ownership model and API distribution & monetization strategy with GTM for strategic decision-making, efficient execution and revenue diversification

Redmond, Washington, Us

Enabled rapid, compliant, reliable & efficient innovation in AI for 'Future of Work' via agile, secure & cost-aware developer onboarding, app experimentation & development and data management systems for Microsoft Copilot powering 2K+ 1P & 3P apps delivering intelligent productivity & collaborative communication to 100s of millions of B2C & B2B customers of all M365 products including Viva, Teams, Edge, Bing, Office, Outlook, OneDrive and Windows.- Empowered >80K partners in Microsoft 365's global 1st party ecosystem with 25+ transformative developer productivity experiences, processes, tools and forums enabling frictionless partner onboarding, rapid app prototyping, easy API discovery, compliant data exploration, processing & analytics as well as active developer relations & community engagement, in collaboration with 200+ multi-geo & cross-functional stakeholders spread across 9+ time zones.- Devised 0 to 1 agile & cost-aware partner onboarding experience with in-built mechanism for capacity budgeting, resource governance & efficiency flywheel to project and scale growth in usage of 100s of M365 cloud services reliably and efficiently saving $MNs in COGS.- Boosted experimentation velocity by 41% to improve developer agility and satisfaction for hundreds of M365 feature crews saving them avg. 90 days in time-to-market from idea to launch.- Evangelised new product launches thru live tech talks, on-demand sessions and release announcements at company-wide global Dev Rel events including tech conferences, partner forums, community channels, newsletters, etc. spanning multiple days and countries.- Delivered a powerful personal talk along with EVP and CVP in the panel, on promoting a culture of psychological safety for learning and growth from failures.- Ramped up 5 new hires and interviewed candidates in product roles.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Collaborated cross-functionally across Experiences & Devices group to drive successful partner engagements and feature developments powered by the data and intelligence app platform of Microsoft 365 Core.- Advocated for partners to ship Privacy dashboards and Office Roaming for Business to Bn+ consumers in time for GDPR compliance with high availability >99.9% against strict deadlines- Quadrupled partner onboarding rate to increase platform adoption and agility by designing 0 to 1 onboarding & offboarding mechanisms and rapid prototyping, testing & experimentation experiences for 10s of thousands of Microsoft developers, using React.js on top of graph data model hosted in Neo 4j clusters.- Conceived service level quality metrics on usage of storage capacity and reliability of reactive compute infra, as well as generated actionable insights for optimization investments.- Conceptualized many Behavioral Hacks for Good on Sustainability, Justice, Safety and Ability using TensorFlow, Hololens, GroupMe & Azure techs.- Mentored 3 energetic product management interns to inspire change, write high-quality specs, and organized a successful company-wide tech conference in 2019.

A sports and fitness start-up for social impact, honored with The Build India Award in 2017 at New Delhi, for contribution in development of India.- Founded this venture with a mission to encourage sportsmanship and healthiness by conducting events and covering stories- Oversaw core business operations, finance, HR, Volunteers, PR, marketing, branding, website & app design.- Conceptualized a gift economy based inter-village tournament, certifying 108 Kabaddi players, featured in DNA and paper.li- Pioneered Inter Startup Futsal League - a unique recreational and networking event for startups and investors in the city, benefiting 12 organizations and 32 participants.- Delivered talks at Bloggers’ Connect Workshop by UNICEF, at eChai Demo Day in MICA, at Startup Retreat by ServiceSpace.org and at iCREATE in India

- Delivered a lecture on Customer Development methodology and Lean Startup movement as Teaching Assistant of the Tech Startup Tools and Techniques course, taught by Prof. Mark Desantis.- Interacted with the global students and potential entrepreneurs online as well as offline to guide them in shaping their startup ideas.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Acqui-hired by USA based Healthsuite LLC for leading an EduTech venture (Edicted.in):- Conceived an interactive MIS project with a purpose to reduce dropout rates in local K12 schools of India by 50%- Managed Team, Ideation, Prototyping, Product Design, UX, Business Modeling, Market Research, and Investor Relations- Established Education Technology Evangelists meetup group comprising 600+ members, since November 2014- Prototyped an analytic mobile app with real-time dashboard to measure parent’s sentiments about their kids’ learning at school, using the no/low-code platform of AppSheet

Sacramento, California, Us

Electronic Health Records, Practice Management and Clinical Automation- Performed R&D of a cloud-based EHR SaaS product used by 2200+ healthcare providers in the USA- Developed REST APIs in Scala on MongoDB and MySQL through TDD on a multi-layered MVC architecture upon CentOS- Handled Business Analysis, Module Ownership, User Acceptance Testing and Agile methodology in Jira

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Application Development in Oracle-Siebel CRM for Customer Relationship Management project of T-systems (Europe) as well as in Java and Oracle Policy Automation for Banking and Financial Services project of Barclays Corporate (UK)- Built a rule engine to filter excess referrals for overdrafts in B2B banking in order to limit its processing time to 4 hours- Used Oracle Policy Automation tool with Java in back-end to write business rules and create web forms as well as screen flows- Integrated Oracle BI Publisher with Siebel for Quotes and Contracts module, through scripts, workflow automation and customization

Sunnyvale, California, Us

- Automated patching of product builds using Perl on Linux to improve speed and efficiency of Release Management through Perforce by 80%- Offered with job as R&D Engineer

Master’S Degree, Information Systems Management

B-Tech, Computer Engineering

Certification, Marketing Research

Diploma, International Marketing

High School Certificate, Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths)