Karthik Gunasekaran

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

14+ years of experience in product management and engineering.
Expert in building resilient cloud-native database services.
Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Product Manager specializing in SaaS and cloud infrastructure solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategySaasProduct DesignEngineering ManagementMicroservicesSoftware DevelopmentTelematicsBig Data

Other Skills

.NETAPI DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAzure DevOpsB2B SoftwareBusiness AnalysisC#Cloud Cost OptimizationData AnalyticsData PipelinesData StructuresDatabasesDistributed SystemsExecutionHTML

About

Karthik is a Senior Product Manager with 14+ years of experience building enterprise and cloud platforms. His background spans product management and engineering, with a focus on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and managed data services. At Tessell, he leads key product initiatives for a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform operating across multiple public clouds. His work focuses on building resilient, cost-efficient, and high-performance database services. He works closely with leadership, engineering, go-to-market, and customer success teams to shape product strategy, define the roadmap, and drive execution, delivering cloud-native database capabilities aligned with customer and business outcomes.

Experience

Tessell

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Tessell, the DBaaS Platform, offers a highly differentiated, fully-managed database service with your choice of database engine on your preferred cloud platform, at a significantly lower cost.
Key features of Tessell include:
1. 10X IOPS at fractional & fixed cost: Eliminate IOPS meter by turning cloud-native high-performance i4i, i3en, and Lsv3 compute into durable, zero data loss infrastructure.
2. Enterprise-grade data protection: Multi-AZ HA. Cross-region DR. High fidelity BCP. Tessell can provide HA/DR using database-native replication.
3. Unified data management: Database-native backups to achieve compliance and avoid infrastructure lock-in. Policy-driven secure data sharing for UAT, QA, and Dev environments.
4. Choice of deployment: a) Hosted and managed by Tessell; b) Hosted at the customer, managed by Tessell.

PostgreSQLPlatform as a Service (PAAS)DatabasesDistributed SystemsData PipelinesCloud Cost Optimization+2

Cloud assert

3 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs

Led Product Efforts for Cloud Billing and Microsoft CSP Reseller Commerce Platform
Designed and executed a product and go-to-market strategy for a customer self-service and billing platform targeting Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers
Devised a product strategy to transition the product from an on-premises solution to a SaaS solution

Roadmap PlanningExecutionSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Product ManagementSaaS

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Spearheaded and executed the successful launch of billing integration with private cloud solutions including support for multi-stamp Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Market ResearchProduct DesignProduct Management

Senior Engineering Lead

Mar 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

Managed the engineering teams responsible for Hybr's core and billing services
Owned Multi-tenancy and security layers for Hybr, a multi-tenant Hybrid Cloud Management platform
Oversaw the implementation of a cost calculation pipeline design change, resulting in a significant reduction of over 35% in high-severity issues
Designed and developed a Virtual Labs feature with payment gateway integrations, targeting B2C users

MicroservicesIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Engineering Management

Trimble inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

Directed development efforts of VisionLink Unified API, a real-time telematics delivery solution for Caterpillar and mixed-fleet construction solutions
Improved database performance by 10% for Trimble Connected Mine Platform, a geospatial and business analytics platform for mining industry

TelematicsMicroservicesSoftware Development

Cognizant

Senior Developer

Aug 2011 – Aug 2016 · 5 yrs · Greater Chennai Area · On-site

Directed the development of advanced search features (V2.0) for LexisNexis Legal Research platform, facilitating search results across billions of proprietary documents
Executed the technology migration for Lexis Advance Profile Suite from monolith to Microservices based architecture

C#Big DataSoftware Development