Akshay Deshmukh

Product Director

Pune, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 7 years in software development and 8 years in product management.
  • Led strategic initiatives achieving 70% YoY growth.
  • Expert in building SaaS products and integrations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with a strong technical background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Other Skills

API DevelopmentB2BCoffeeScriptCore JavaGithubHerokuIntegrationJavaScriptMVP DevelopmentMongoDBPythonSinatraUnixWireframing

About

Software developer turned Product Management professional with 7 years of software development experience and 8 years of product management experience with B2B SaaS products. Currently working at a conversation intelligence SaaS startup Avoma as a Principal Product Manager. Previous stints include founding PM at loyalty management B2B SaaS startup Zinrelo and PM for flagship product of a Data Backup and protection unicorn Druva. A generalist with keen interest in low touch SaaS products and integrations. Key skills :  Product Management, Product strategy, Solutioning,  people collaboration.

Experience

Osmos

Director - Product Management

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Avoma

2 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Oct 2024Jul 2025 · 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Product Management

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Product Management

Zinrelo

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2019Jan 2023 · 4 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked with the Executive leadership team and led/executed multiple strategic initiatives (Product strategy, Integration strategy, Engineering efficiency, CS and Engineering interactions ) to help Zinrelo achieve ~70% YoY growth for consecutive couple of years.
  • Formulated a product strategy doc for Zinrelo that defines the Vision , Mission and the path forward. This helped us achieve a company wide shared understanding of the company strategy and goals to focus on.
  • Built an API first loyalty SaaS platform for online businesses to seamlessly integrate with Zinrelo.
  • Built and launch a Receipt scanning feature through MVP experiments that allows businesses to know their customers better leading to better customer segmentation.
  • Built and launched integrations with platforms like Klaviyo, Iterable, Hubspot , Clover , TrustPilot, Miva etc.
Product Strategy

Druva

Product Manager

Dec 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Product Manager for Druva's flagship product platform - Druva inSync
  • Responsible for creation and execution of the product Roadamp for inSync's "Platform" swimlane ensuring Druva maintains it’s leadership position in Cloud based endpoint backup space
  • Key accomplishments during my tenure at Druva -
  • Managed 1 Major and 2 minor client releases.
  • Made the Druva inSync client Section 508 compliant. Put together VPAT 2.0 for Druva inSync client.
  • Initiate API revamp for Platform APIs by introducing Parameterized and Actionable APIs.
  • Introduce user provisioning via SCIM for Druva inSync Client.
  • Move management of Druva inSync's listing on Amazon Marketplace from Tackle.io to inhouse leading to a savings of about $48k per annum.
  • Helped Sales and Marketing teams in closing GTM and sales opportunities.
Product Management

Shopsocially

3 roles

Product Manager

May 2016Nov 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Lead the engineering as well as product management effort for the launch of our re-branded product ~The Zinrelo platform.
  • Created product specifications , mockups and wireframes for this platfrom from scratch.
  • Worked on launch strategy, roadmap and execution for the company's loyalty and referral platform
  • Introduced Rule Engine for the Loyalty Program that gave Zinrelo a competitive edge .
  • Closely monitor Mixpanel data to optimize user flows for a few apps and decision making process.
  • Worked with third party iOS and Android developers to develop the SDKs for Zinrelo Platform and also with third party e-commerce platform developers to develop the integrations for Shopify, Magento , Demandware etc.
  • Own the product specifications, prioritization, project management, product architecture,customer interaction and resolution of their issues, hiring related activities and product delivery .
Product Management

Engineering Lead

Promoted

Oct 2015May 2016 · 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Led a 10 people strong team of engineers responsible for maintaining and enhancing the loyalty program offering.
  • Led the development of crucial features like Loyalty Points expiration, API endpoints , CRM integrations.
  • Worked closely with engineering teams of high value clients to help them go live with our product.
  • Co-developed a POC for Customer Q and A in hackathon which later materialized as our new offering.
  • Oversaw Redis and MongoDB migrations to keep the infrastructure up to date.
  • Spearheaded the initiative of adding test coverage to the product by writing tests for API endpoints. This initiative was taken forward by the team by writing unit test cases and eventually adding continuous integration capability into the development flow.
  • Introduced DokuWiki for engineering documentation and Slate for better API documentation

Senior Developer

Dec 2013Sep 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Implemented Notification alert for plan usage which led to higher number of subscription upgrades.
  • Co-developed the Photomonials app that fetched photos from Instagram and Twitter tagged with specific hashtags
  • Co-developed the referral program offering for ShopSocially platform.

Sungard - now part of fis

Software Developer

Jul 2010Dec 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • In my roles as an Engineer and then a Senior Software Engineer at Kiodex, I was solely responsible for all the development needs, production support needs and production deployment for a project named Kiodex Integration Hub. I was the single point of contact for Market Data team at Kiodex for KIH related issues.

Education

COEP Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2006Jan 2010

Mahatma Gandhi Mahavidyalaya , Ahmedpur,Dist.Latur

Jan 2004Jan 2006

St.Joseph's English High School,Buldhana

Jan 1993Jan 2004

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