Anshuman Misra

CEO

New Delhi, Delhi, India18 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product and engineering teams for Mobikwik's IPO.
Built advanced CI/CD stacks improving release speed by 3X.
Implemented innovative OKR systems across organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Software Development leader with extensive experience in product management and engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementEngineering Leadership

Other Skills

A/B TestingAgile MethodologiesAndroidBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceCC++Cloud ComputingFunnel OptimizationGrowth StrategyJavaJava Enterprise EditionMentoringMobile ApplicationsMobile Devices

About

Anshuman Misra served as Chief Product Technology Officer(CPTO) at Mobikwik. In this role, he headed Product Management, Engineering and Design for all products at Mobikwik. In this role, he has been involved in building the Product, Engineering and Design leadership team at Mobikwik ground up , while significantly improving Consumer experience around Stack reliability, New feature launches in the flagship company product Zip, innovative offerings such as 12 %Xtra investment product and many more. He was a part of the Executive leadership team at Mobikwik, leading it's charge to IPO filing as part of core leadership. Prior to this he served as VP of Operations at Hike Messenger(Product & Engineering). He was one of the early employees at hike and played a pivotal role in building the company. In this role he ran the day to day operations for Engineering, Product, Growth and Program Management. With more than 19+ years in the industry, prior to Hike, Anshuman has essayed cross-functional roles at Microsoft, IBM, Quark, and Spice. He has 10+ years of experience building and leading strong product and product leadership teams.

Experience

Mobikwik

2 roles

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

I head all Product , Engineering , Growth and Design functions at Mobikwik. This includes key innovative products around BNPL , Merchants experience, UPI , Core payments, Wealth and payment Gateway. In this role, I head a 150+ member Engineering team and a 20 + Product Management and Design team.

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Senior Vice President(Product & Growth)

May 2021 – Mar 2022 · 10 mos

I Head Product , Growth and User Experience at Mobikwik.
Build a strong Design and Design leadership team at Mobikwik
Build a solid team of 8+ Rockstar PMs , including Product leadership
Improved funnels for core ZIP product onboarding, discovery and M0 LTV. Improved onboarding funnels and home screen discovery for zip by over 20%

Hike messenger

6 roles

VP - Product & Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Delhi Area

I currently lead a team of 80+ Engineers and a 15+ PM/Analysts. Fortunate to be working with an A+ rockstar bunch.
Product and Growth:
Led the 0-x Launches of Hikemoji and Hikeland across functions
Responsible for the 0-x launch of hike sticker chat and led the rapid growth/adoption
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/hike-sticker-chat-app-2-million-weekly-active-users-kavin-bharti-mittal-2146768
Rebuilt the Product and Growth team ground up.
Responsible for the Product and Growth OKRs org wide
Engineering:
Head of Engineering overall for last year and a half.
Built a strong Engineering Management Team across the board.
Rebuilt the Client Engineering team using a fresh mix of ZeroTo2 and experienced talent.
Took our CI/CD stack to the next level with automation hooks for code quality and speed of delivery
Achieved key GCP migrations , including the most recent one of moving our key consumer services to Kubernetes.
Head of Recruiting (Jan 2019- Dec 2019)
Hired and Ramped up cross functional leadership and teams (Including AI/ML)

Senior Director Program Management

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Jan 2019 · 9 mos · Greater Delhi Area

1. Played Chief of staff role
2. Involved in building up key parts of the organisation (Product, Engineering, AI/ML, Program) during this period.
3. Worked on deploying a game changing OKR system at hike at org wide scale. It was designed by our CEO.
4. Responsible for All Recruiting (hired about 90+ Rockstar team members. Also launched some innovative game changing recruiting tactics like ZeroTo2
https://yourstory.com/2019/06/hike-zeroto2--hire-freshers-young-engineers
5. Respnsible for All Client Engineering efforts during this phase on Android and iOS apps.
6. Launched AI First -Hike's signature AI event. Involved in conceptualisation to delivery.
7. Responsible for the cross functional launch of Hike Cloud. A seamless yet extremely complex migration of a phone book based graph to cloud. A massive achievement by our team that we're really proud of. One of the first globally at this scale live.

Director of Program

Jul 2017 – Jan 2018 · 6 mos

Built one of the most advanced CI/CD stacks at the time for Android and iOS apps. Created the vision and executed on it.
3X increase in speed to market on Releases with Automated ci/cd.
Build the CI CD team ground up
https://blog.hike.in/ci-cd-3ed559d1d2f7

Director of Product and Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2013 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Headed the Core Chatting experience , Stickers, Timeline and Home experiences
Led experiments with Local Regional keyboard
Launched innovative features such as the worlds first Type ahead sticker recommendation system ( Led product and tech for this)
Responsible for Hike 5.0 launch (Brand new experience, payments, Hike direct and a host of these)

Product Manager

Promoted

Mar 2013 – Oct 2013 · 7 mos

First Product manager for Hike. Built All V1 features like Messaging, Timeline, Stickers, Hidden mode (the list is long :))
Proud to be a part of the team that built hike into a Top of the store app in 4 months from launch!
Lead the initial V1 and V2 teams for Hike. This included the Android, iOS, S40, S60. Blackberry, and WP7 apps.
Hired and groomed the first APM team at hike
Lead Client Enginering for all 6 platforms as a added responsibility (Startup life!)

TAM

Jun 2012 – Mar 2013 · 9 mos

Business development
GTM Strategy
Managing Operator and OEM Relationships
Supply Chain Management
Do write some code at times.

Spice digital

2 roles

Senior Manager

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos

GTM Strategy and planning for S Apps Planet
Team hiring, incubation
Product Management and Delivery

Manager - Engineering

Jul 2009 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos

I manage development and Quality assurance at the Mobile Internet team in Spice Digital. Mainly responsible for rolling out Enterprise and Consumer applications.

Ibm

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2008 – Jul 2009 · 11 mos

At IBM I was mainly responsible for working in the Development of Cognos Go Mobile enterprise offering. I also worked towards developing a Hibernate-GWT framework for automating BI Reporting tasks.