Oct 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Product at Microsoft Teams
• Crafted the opportunity space and set the strategy and execution for Activity Feed & Notifications feature area for Microsoft Teams
• Owned and executed agile delivery processes for on-time functional deliveries
• Achieved enterprise readiness for Teams and met the O365 bar which covers for Security, Privacy, Accessibility, Internationalization, Livesite readiness, Documentation, Support readiness, etc.
• Setup product analytics dashboards for engagement, retention and dark user reactivation via Notifications & Activity Feed. Setup the funnel and various pivots by user-cohorts such that it drives product strategy
• Partnered with Office 365, various 1p partners like Microsoft Dynamics and 3p apps to establish the notifications platform for apps on Teams

Apr 2017 – Oct 2017 · 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Set & Own the product vision. Drive the MVP to market fit. AI Differentiated media tech
• Achieved the first million milestone for the product
• Established the data model for a big-data product and align it to the product strategy
• Scaled and ramped up product and design teams

May 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• MVP and GTM for the product
• Owned the product roadmap for data platform for a big-data and AI differentiated product

May 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Competitor analysis and market positioning
• Owned and delivered the API as a service
• Owned and delivered Helpshift app on Salesforce app exchange
• Product exploration for Helpshift Realtime, SDK updates
• Assisted customer success and ensured onboarding

Dec 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Led a UX differentiated product for MSN Money on Win 8/10, Android, iOS and Web
• Big impact B2C product with hundreds of millions of MAUs
• Led data partnerships for financial data across 56 markets
• Drive launch of new products and feature concepts by performing market analysis, possible partnerships evaluations & revenue forecasts, user analytics, UX
• Documenting detailed functional specifications with mock-ups & sketches of possible User Interface
• Conceptualize and innovate immersive consumer products and apps on the App Platforms on Windows 8
• Drive various entities, UX, Dev, QA, Users, Ops, Vendors to manage product roll outs
• Growth experiments to achieve PV/V metrics for product engagement

May 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Industry insights to drive feature additions into Sokrati's enterprise & consumer facing platforms
• Drive launch of new product concepts after convincing the management with market analysis, possible partnerships evaluations & revenue forecasts
• Documenting detailed functional specifications with mock-ups & sketches of possible User Interface
• Interacting with Senior Management to showcase strategic advantage & revenue potential to Sokrati
• Analyzing, monitoring & being constantly updated on competitive landscape

Aug 2011 – May 2012 · 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Designed & Implemented a web based project for a client of MangoSpring using JavaScript and other web technologies
• Design and Implement XMPP based feature for communications (chat system) on MangoApps platofrm
• Perform POCs and verify design approaches for features on realtime reporting on MangoApps platform

Aug 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

• 1. Leveraged requirements management techniques like contextual design and use case design for a feature driven requirements tracking and management
• 2. Architected the AETool using CMU's AcmeStudio as a formal architecture definition tool, which formed the basis for implementation of the project
• 3. Designed the constraints engine for evaluation and validation with ANTLR parser generator for custom constraints
• 4. Developed a Z specification, formal modeling technique for specifying the systems domain model as a technique to stabilize requirements for a system in the new research domain with high requirements volatility
• 5. Coordinated efforts for technical product reviews, inspections, verification & validation of requirements and conformance of architecture to implementation

Jul 2006 – Jul 2011 · 5 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Client: TvCabo (now called Zon multimedia), Portugal Average team size: 10
• 1. Designed and implemented a J2EE based system for a Business Support System (BSS) which adapted provisioning orders from upstream TIBCO system to Sigma's provisioning engine for enabling Voice over IP and High Speed Data services
• 2. Designed and implemented a proof of concept for telephone number portability successfully, which was instrumental in winning the contract for Sigma
• 3. Upgraded the TIBCO BSS Adapter into a BSS Adapter framework which formed the basis for other BSS Adapter projects across a variety of clients for Sigma
• 4. Involved in the key lifecycle phases requirements analysis, system design, development, unit testing, all vendor integration support, production support for the TIBCO BSS Adapter module
• 5. Designed an automated test generation tool for the BSS Adapter framework based on natural language processing and program generation reducing the time for testing by around 50%
• 6. Collaborated onsite client deployment of 3 production releases

Aug 2005 – May 2006 · 9 mos

• Client: Symantec IT. India. Team Size: 4
• 1. Designed and implemented a user interface generation framework based on a research area - Generative Software Development. This involved automated program model transformations and code generation
• 2. Delivered product demonstration and technology overview with the CIO of Symantec, Mr. David Thompson. Patent submitted with Symantec IT