Pratik Upacharya — Co-Founder

I am a results-driven Senior Product Leader with 10+ years of experience across fintech, AI-ML social media, Ed-Tech, Travel-Tech, and Healthcare, Lending, Fintech. Specializing in launching and scaling high-impact products (scale - 120M DAU to 200M MAU), I have successfully spearheaded initiatives that significantly enhanced user engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth. With a proven track record at industry-leading companies like CRED(xx MAU), Sharechat(300M MAU, 100+ M DAU), and Crio (Zero-to-one), I blend innovative product strategies with data-driven insights to deliver exceptional outcomes. 🌟 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐃𝐨: 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑦 & 𝐸𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛: Expert in crafting and executing robust product roadmaps, driving products from concept to market with a focus on scalability and user satisfaction. 𝐶𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠-𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝: Adept at leading cross-functional teams to achieve ambitious goals, enhancing collaboration between engineering, design, and marketing teams. 𝑈𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 & 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ: Demonstrated ability to boost engagement and retention through personalized features and seamless user experiences and achieved noteworthy increases in daily active users and transaction volumes. 𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 & 𝑈𝑋 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛: Proficient in leveraging product analytics and UX design principles to refine product offerings, ensuring a data-informed approach to decision-making. 💡 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬: Product Management | Agile Methodologies | Stakeholder Management Product Analytics (Mixpanel, SQL) UX/UI Design (Figma) | Technology (JavaScript, Python, React, AWS) Entrepreneurship | Strategic Partnerships 🏆 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: - Revamped a critical business line at CRED, which generated a disproportionate revenue outcome for a product with more than X million monthly active user bases. - Drove the enhancement of Sharechat's "Explore" feature, leading to a notable uptick in user engagement and retention through personalized content and improved discovery mechanisms. - Co-founded Twheelo, driving its growth to become a leading player in the two-wheeler peer-to-peer rental marketplace and contributed to a team that won the Dubai Future Accelerators Challenge 2019 with an innovative education solution. 🌐 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤: I play Tennis, Badminton, Squash, Cricket, and TT. I occasionally play guitar and have a few YouTube videos. As an engineer turned PM, I still code & design systems. Coding helps me have meaningful discussions with my wife ( she is a coder ).

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Ed-Tech product leader with strong expertise in user engagement and product strategy.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 10 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Product Strategy
Product Management
User Engagement
Product Development
Technical Leadership

Career Highlights

Led product initiatives boosting user engagement to 200M MAU.
Revamped revenue-generating products at CRED.
Co-founded a successful two-wheeler rental startup.

Work Experience

CRED

Lead Product Manager (3 yrs 2 mos)

ShareChat

Product Manager (1 yr 6 mos)

Crio.Do

Product Manager (2 yrs 4 mos)

Xoriant

Product Engineer (1 yr 9 mos)

Twheelo

Co-Founder | CTO (1 yr 7 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Nagpur University

Pratik Upacharya

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led product initiatives boosting user engagement to 200M MAU.
Revamped revenue-generating products at CRED.
Co-founded a successful two-wheeler rental startup.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Ed-Tech product leader with strong expertise in user engagement and product strategy.

Contact

pratikupacharya@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementUser EngagementProduct DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAngularAnnual PlanningAttention to DetailBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategyCommunicationCompetitive AnalysisCritical ThinkingCross-functional CollaborationCustomer ResearchData AnalysisDecision-MakingDesign Patterns

About

Experience

Cred

Lead Product Manager

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading bill payments charter (recurring and non-recurring bill payments). Working with NPCI ( National Payment Corporation of India ) & NBBL (NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited) to make every payment digital under the BBPS network ( Bharat Bill Payment Service - BharatBillPay).
Crafting user experiences for categories like rent, education, electricity, DTH, subscription, mobile recharge, insurance, loan repayment, tax payments, society payments, vouchers, LPG gas, tuition fees, water, gift cards, brand vouchers, etc.
PnL owner, driving business growth through various strategic initiatives.
Leading team of 6+ strong Product Managers, Growth Managers, Product Analysts.

Product ManagementStakeholder ManagementProduct AnalyticsUser ExperienceProduct Strategy

Sharechat

Product Manager

Jul 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Focus Area
Discovery of User Interest
Explore & Exploration of content
Category Verticalization & Expansion
Search & Personalisation, Recommendation of topics & buckets
Driving metrics
User retention & engagement
Average time spent
Legit user experience
User content consumption
Traffic to the product
12 million active users per day (DAU)
Tech
Google Cloud, Cloud Spanner, Big Table, Big Query, Data Science, ML -> Field Factor Awareness, Collaborative Filtering, Random Forrest, Data Analysis, Data Studio, Redash, Looker, Python
Experienced in owning internet product launches through the whole lifecycle.
My day to day life -
Cross-functional collaboration with all the departments such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product Marketing, UX, Engineering and Customer Success
Decipher data for product decisions
Own and build a product roadmap
Analyze data to gather product insights
Prioritize stories for agile sprints based on Frameworks
Take a customer-first approach for any product development
Deliver products in a fast-paced and agile environment
Define and execute product strategy for various product areas
Define product architecture
Goals:
Make internet products intuitive
Bring Business, UX and Engineering together
Understand constraints and optimize for the outcome at hand
Sharechat is parent company for Sharechat, Moj, MX Takatak, Jeet11

Product ManagementData AnalysisUser EngagementCross-functional CollaborationProduct Strategy

Crio.do

Product Manager

Mar 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Focus Areas
Mock Interview Platform
Gamification
Customer Support Platform
Scalable Nudge & Hints Delivery
Scalable coding assessment platform
Metrics
Total Turn Around Time ( TAT ) for customer queries
User progress ( from laggards to leaders )
User engagement
Tech
Google Cloud, Docker Containers, Containerization, Python, Node.js, React, Big-query, Kubernetes
Additional Responsibilities -
Technical leadership, systems design, or technical program management with an engineering team.
Partner with internal stakeholders to establish technical road maps that accomplish business objectives.
Understand complex, ambiguous, and open-ended business problems and produce a results-oriented strategy to solve those problems.
Build and action product architectures and solution roadmaps, including the design of infrastructure necessary to support the business objectives of our stakeholders.
Create launch programs with partners to ensure that new products and feature releases are tested before deployment.
Perform implementation reviews, convert new product features, and ensure the prompt & proper resolution of technical challenges.

Product ManagementTechnical LeadershipData AnalysisGamificationProduct Strategy

Xoriant

Product Engineer

Aug 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Built a framework to manage high transactional peer to peer financial service using Nodejs from scratch
Created a standalone analytics tool to visualize financial investments for money lending portfolio management systems using Highchart, D3, Angular 5
Single-handedly took responsibility of migrating existing UI framework from 1.4x and Angular 5 in three weeks and delivered successful migration without breaking existing functionality, enhanced the user experience
Worked with the Remote team (three different time zones)
Created docker containers of applications, shipped using Kubernetes, deep understanding of Micro-service and serverless
Designing and developing sustainable architecture for a large-scale system
Providing API to various platforms to build apps
Improving the application performance at various levels
Played with languages like Java, Node.js
Worked with MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Postgres

Node.jsAngularDockerKubernetesProduct DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Twheelo

Co-Founder | CTO

Jan 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Nagpur Area, India

Twheelo is a two wheeler rental startup by VNITians, operating right now just for VNITians. We wish to further expand inside the city of Nagpur and make ourselves available to all people in the city. Our vision is to solve the problem of independent transportation for the country.