Sep 2017 – Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Mumbai

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Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Premium subscription product for driving customer loyalty, led to 1.5x increase in customer LTV
• No Peak Pricing, Priority Allocation, Top Rated Drivers, No Cancellation Charges, Priority Customer Support were among the top of many benefits offered
• Conceptualized and built the product from scratch
• Worked closely with a 40-member team across product, design, engineering, analytics, business, marketing, customer care, legal & corporate communication to drive flagship loyalty product in the mobility industry
• Piloted multiple growth hacks to drive adoption in top 8 cities of India
• Product details: https://www.olacabs.com/olaSelect

Apr 2016 – Jul 2016 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Product offering seamless Wi-Fi connectivity(basis unique user credentials) in a booked cab
• Rolled out the customer facing interface of the product
• Drove adoption in 10% of daily rides within a month of launch
• Ensured further adoption to 15% of daily rides through communication tweaks, contextual notifications
• Worked closely with a 5-member backend tech team for smooth roll out of a very complex product

Jan 2016 – Mar 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Conducted market survey and analysis of car pooling across 15 large IT companies in Bengaluru
• Drove legal due diligence of the product along with the legal team
• Devised strategy for product roll out
• Worked with a 4-member legal & corporate affairs team

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Headed PG (Paying Guest) supply products at Housing after BigBHK's acquisition
• On-boarded and transitioned BigBHK to an integral Housing product
• Worked with a team of 14 people comprising Tech, Design, BD, Operations, Analytics, Customer Support, Marketing, Finance
• Scaled BigBHK to launch in 3 new cities: Chennai, Mumbai & NCR taking overall presence to 6 cities
• Conceptualized and worked on launching mobile product for BigBHK
• Worked on integrating Housing PG product with BigBHK to launch real time PG booking

Jan 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• BigBHK is India's first SaaS company to provide an Online Property Management Software solution for Paying Guest Accommodations(PGs) and Hostels. Operations in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune.
• One amongst 3 winners out of 175 startups in StartupDash Competition held in Bangalore from 4th-6th July '14. Jointly organized by TLabs, NASSCOM 10000 Startups and Inc42 Magazine.
• BigBHK got acquired by Housing.com in July '15 and is still operational.
• Expertise-
• Startups: Establishment, MVP, Business, Technology, Team Building, Growth, Leadership, Bootstrapping, Customer Support, Finance, M&A
• Website: https://bigbhk.com
• Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, Twitter Bootstrap/jQuery, MySQL, AWS

Jul 2013 – Dec 2013 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Increased ownership, role and responsibilities for Enterprise Manager SOA Management product. Continued on the lines of delivery as Member Technical Staff.

Jul 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked with Enterprise Manager Development Team at Prestige Lexington Towers, Bangalore. Specialized in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) management and Oracle Service Bus(OSB) monitoring. Delivered on projects across 4 EM releases: EM12c Release 1-4 (12.1.0.1 to 12.1.0.4)
• Selective Projects:
• Integrating Oracle acquired BEA Systems' product - 'AquaLogic Software Suite' with Oracle Enterprise Manager using Oracle Application Development Framework(ADF) technology.
• SOA Dehydration Store monitoring for Oracle Real Application Cluster(RAC) database. Providing monitoring solution for 2 different RAC scenarios: Multi Data Source and Grid Link Data Source.
• Target Setup Verification: Built a tool to perform verification of enterprise stacks which run SOA systems. The verification process checked the health of all stack level components such as servers, database and the functional areas of a SOA application. In addition, the tool also had diagnostic capability to suggest possible fix for setup issues.
• Expertise: Java/J2EE, JSF/ADF, SQL, WebService, SOA, OSB, BPEL, Oracle 11g, Design Patterns

Apr 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Co-Founded Youth Communications Pvt. Ltd. which owned and ran Let Me Know. Strategized growth, contrived aggressive sales, built partnerships with over 100 organizations such as StudentCompetitions, The Hindu, YourStory, NSEF, Nurture Talent, Metawing Technologies, Goonj, Rennaissance India.
• Challenges faced and worked upon:
• Providing low cost and effective advertising solution to Start-ups, SMEs, Social Enterprises, NGOs and Colleges
• Increasing subscriber base, website traffic, generating growing revenue and over all reach out in age group 18-25 years. Daily email update on relevant opportunities was sent to 45,000+ users
• Forging strategic partnership with other organizations in the eco-space
• Remote operation with significant team size. Reducing operation cost and attrition rate
• Expertise: Social Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Business Development, Sustainability, Social Media, Sales & Marketing

Feb 2011 – Mar 2011 · 1 mo

• Selected as one of 110 young leaders across the globe to become a StartingBloc Fellow and to attend the Boston 2011 Institute for Social Innovation at Tufts University, Boston, MA from 17th-21st March '11.

Jul 2010 – Jun 2011 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Projects:
• Search engine enhancement (accuracy and performance) in Operations Manager(OM) - coded in Java from scratch. OM is now known as OnCommand Unified Manager (OCUM).
• DataFabric Manager (DFM) data conversion to different file formats through servlets and Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) APIs.
• Developing Android mobile application for System Manager. Major requirement: Capture essential storage information from NetApp filers in real time. System Manager is now known as OnCommand System Manager (OCSM).
• Exposure areas: Enterprise products, Search efficiency, Android app development

Jan 2010 – Oct 2010 · 9 mos · Remote

• Youth Ki Awaaz is an online journalism portal dedicated towards highlighting the voice of the youth. I worked as a 'Youth Correspondent' for this organization.
• My contributed articles/essays can be read here: https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/author/ankur_kumar_1/

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked under the guidance of Prof. Supratim Biswas on a project titled - "Analysis of Garbage Collection Techniques in Programming Languages"

Aug 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr · Goa

• Led the Economics Association at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus in capacity of its Sub-Coordinator. Was actively involved in all the affairs of the association right from its functioning, events' conduction etc. to its funding. Was instrumental in bringing out association's first issue of monthly newsletter.

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

• Worked on a project titled: "Flight Data Analysis of RH 200 and RH - 300 Mark II Sounding Rockets"