Mar 2023 – Oct 2023 · 7 mos · India

• I decided to take a break from regular full time work to do some travel, think about whats next and in the meantime mentoring Product Managers/Leaders and startups on product strategy.

Jan 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading NBU ads team as well as SMB Ads performance on Google search ads. Next billion users (NBU) look and use internet differently, and we need to figure out the right set of the Ad experiences and products that work for these users.

Nov 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Product and Engineering leader for Ads. Building FK to be a leader in AdTech in India.
• Making e-commerce advertising as a key driver for brand growth. How to drive ROI growth for advertisers and balance with customer experience.
• Check out brands.flipkart.com

Jun 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• leading the Product Management and Data Analytics function for the central Platform teams. Focussed on building next generation real-time data ingestion and processing platforms on private and public cloud.

Jul 2015 – May 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Toovia’s mission is to transform the way brands use data and technology to create innovative and consistent shopping experiences for their customers across channels.
• Luxury lifestyle Brands and Retailers use Toovia for their business needs across Sales, Marketing, Fulfillment, Inventory, Pricing and Manufacturing.

Oct 2014 – Jun 2015 · 8 mos · Bangalore

• Building next generation Real-Time data processing platform on public cloud.

Mar 2006 – Sep 2014 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

• Led the Search Advertising Analytics Product. Build analytics for Bing-Yahoo search marketplace using Big Data. Provide insights to Yahoo sales, finance and marketplace using the tools.
• Product Management for RightMedia (rightmedia.com) - advertiser and publisher interfaces (UI/API), Prediction Engine and pSRT (Personalized Search Re-Targeting) products for Yahoo!.
• Product, Engineering and Program Management for Search Advertising at Yahoo. Responsible for multiple large rollouts across the globe.
• Led Engineering team for Yahoo Maps launch for India.

May 2004 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Portal software built enterprise software for Telecom billing. These software was licensed to large carriers like Vodafone. My role was to lead the large customization for some key customers.

Jan 2003 – Mar 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Managing software development for Healthcare products

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• n CommernceOne had a suite of products around indirect procurement and B2B exchange. My role was working with key customers (Siemens, Schlumburger) to understand their product needs – and what the gaps with our existing products, then arrive at proposals for solutions- either custom built solutions or enhancing the existing products.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Commerce was the pioneer in B2B ECommerce and marketplace design. My role at Commerce One was to work with the large customers like Siemens AG and Schlumburger - large scale deployment, architecture and lead the massive custom software development to support the large enterprises. I worked closely with the Customers to understand their business, and how our products could be deployed for maximum effectiveness. This also involved integration with their ERP and finance systems (i2, SAP, Oracle).
• My role was also to support the sales process by creating demos, deploying proof of concepts.
• The other part of the role was to feed these customer insights into our core product development.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs · New Jersey, US

• Designing and developing web based applications in for Wall street companies

Jan 1994 – Jan 1998 · 4 yrs · Detroit, MI

• Writing software programs for engineering and manufacturing applications using C++, UNIX, Awk, perl. Created a document management system to manage engineering drawings.