Kushal Garg

Product Manager

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 5+ years of experience in B2B and B2C product development.
  • Strong background in data analytics and product management.
  • Advocate for customer needs with engineering understanding.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in Fintech and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProject ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesCompetitive AnalysisCustomer InterviewsData AnalyticsMarket ResearchPricing and Financial ModelingProduct DevelopmentProgrammingScriptingSoftware Development Life Cycle

About

Kushal is a highly motivated and self-driven individual willing to work on new technologies. He can bring together Technological expertise, Design Thinking, Business Strategy and effective communication to develop products that can add value to any business. With 5+ years of experience in building both B2B and B2C technical products, he can take on any complex challenge structurally and logically. He works to advocate for customers' needs while understanding the engineering complexities to improve the value chain. As a Management Science and Engineering Graduate student at Columbia University in the city of New York, he aims to inculcate more global thinking and enhance his engineering skills backed with sound data analytics strategies. Leveraging the learnings from Columbia Business School, he aspires to polish his business acumen and management. Skills: Product Development, Product Management, Data Analysis and Visualization, Customer Interviews, Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Pricing and Financial Modeling, Business Strategy, Agile Development, Software Development Life Cycle, programming, and Scripting. Other than that he's highly opinionated and loves to discuss current affairs, over and above, and loves to indulge in Yoga, running, and cooking to unwind from his schedule.

Experience

Okx

Product Manager II

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Columbia business school

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Applied Fundamental Analysis using External Data

Sep 2022May 2023 · 8 mos

Amazon web services (aws)

Senior Product Manager

Jun 2022Aug 2022 · 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • For my summer 2022 internship, I worked with the AWS Lambda team where:
  • 1. Ramped up the product understanding and identified product gaps
  • 2. Monitored product metrics to understand usage patterns and identify growth opportunities.
  • 3. Validated hypotheses with customer interviews by deploying an efficient sampling strategy.
  • 4. Worked with Engineering team to establish technical requirements and infrastructure.
  • 5. Worked with Financial and Economics teams to develop pricing models for optimal market lift.
  • 6. Delivered a strategy document to bring alignment with the stakeholders.
Data AnalyticsProduct Management

Bucephalus tech

Product Manager

Sep 2021Jun 2022 · 9 mos · New York, United States

  • Bucephalus is a nascent stage startup that aims at building a supply chain optimization platform for its customers while helping these DTC brands improve the ESG and TBL scores.
  • Key responsibilities:
  • Developing product roadmap and go-to-market strategy by devising a plan for customer requirement surveys, competitive analysis and market research
  • Optimizing user onboarding journeys and developing user stories
  • Product prototyping using FIGMA
  • Developing core platform to service the supply chain operating system - Bucephalus
  • Developing system designs for Shopify applications for customer discovery
  • Laying product specifications and coordinating with the Engineering team for development

Undp

Technology Consultant

Sep 2021Jun 2022 · 9 mos · New York, United States

Changing room

Product Consultant and Project Leader

Sep 2021Jun 2022 · 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Changing Room is a pre-seed startup with a vision to shape consumer behaviour towards more sustainable fashion choices. Their product, Eco Index, is a chrome web extension that recommends sustainable alternative choices to customers during their fast fashion journey.

Estee

3 roles

Technical Team Lead

Jan 2021Jul 2021 · 6 mos

  • In a technical leadership role at Estee, I was responsible for providing Project Management and Technical leadership to the software development team. Major goals involved coordinating with the Sales and Business Development teams to create and release project requirements, design specifications, and descriptions for various products according to applicable standards within deadlines. Whereas day-to-day activities encompassed streamlining operations with SRE teams to ensure better customer response and low fault rate.
  • Key Achievements:-
  • Designed and developed a B2B and B2C software system for automated retail/institutional Algo-trading over the web to increase company brokerage business.
  • Maintained and enhanced a B2C a subscription-based stock advisory platform for better stock discovery for clients
  • Re-engineered software development process, introduced a QA process to increase application robustness

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • As a Senior Technology Analyst, my responsibilities were to analyze bottlenecks in product profitability, explore avenues for expansion in capital markets, standardize existing protocols and company ethos, improve cross-team collaboration.
  • Key achievements:
  • Enhanced and maintained proprietary software system for order execution that processed 5MM+ requests daily
  • Automated Execution Sanity testing to reduce turnaround time (from 2 hours to 30 seconds) for rolling updates to clients
  • Researched and developed new trading product prototypes to contribute to the company revenue
  • Spearheaded company-wide technical documentation using confluence, resulting in faster client query response and new talent onboarding time.
Agile MethodologiesData AnalyticsProject Management

Software Engineer

Jul 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • As a Technology analyst, my OKRs were to get used to company culture, upskill technology stack, learn agile methodologies, collaboration, and peer programming, dive deep into the domain (Fintech, Stock Trading, Algo Trading Platforms, Capital Markets).
  • Key achievements:
  • Implemented trading access to 4+ global capital markets by Designing and Developing trading protocol APIs using Exchange Native and Fix protocols in C++/Linux environment
  • Optimised legacy systems to reduce order execution latency by 80% for competitive advantage and reduce PnL slippage
Agile MethodologiesSoftware Development

Nxp semiconductors

Software Engineering Intern

Jan 2017Jun 2017 · 5 mos · Noida Area, India

  • As a part of my 6 months industrial experience semester, I interned at the Data Plane team of NXP semiconductors.I worked on varied projects which involved:-
  • Learned and developed user-space applications using OpenDataPlane APIs that could be deployed on proprietary hardware
  • Worked on OpenFastPath APIs and implemented high-speed TCP/IP applications for proprietary hardware
  • Performed Static code analysis, this introduced more robust coding practices, reduced design issues, and ruled out any static security vulnerabilities

Microsoft

Software Development Intern

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Hyderabad

  • A summer intern in STCI - Bing @ Microsoft Indian Development Center, Hyderabad.
  • As a part of my internship, I got the chance to foray into the world of Android Apps, Java, and cloud technologies.
  • I worked on 2 major projects -
  • 1. Introduce features within the android apps that would increase bing search hits and help with app store discoverability
  • 2. Research and develop a prototype for cloud-based mobile phone testing of UI/UX of Android Apps in order to reduce the turnaround time of rolling updates.

Education

Columbia Business School

Masters in Management Science and Engineering

Aug 2021Dec 2022

Columbia University

Masters in Management Science and Engineering — Engineering

Aug 2021Dec 2022

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

GMSSS 35 Chandigarh

Physics

Jan 2011Jan 2013

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