Jay Thakkar

Product Manager

Toronto, Ontario, Canada5 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • PMP certified with an MBA in Digital Business.
  • 5 years of experience in software development and project management.
  • Worked with major companies like Walmart and PayPal.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Development and Product Management professional with experience in Fintech and data analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentData Analysis

Other Skills

Data GatheringData ReportingAnalyticsData CollectionFinancial AnalysisData AcquisitionAnalytics PlatformData ValidationMonitoring FrameworkWeb CrawlingPricing PoliciesData StructuresAlgorithmsCProgramming

About

I recently completed my MBA (specializing in Digital Business) from Queen's University, Canada. I am also PMP certified. I have 5 years of rich and varied software development and project management experience in companies such as Walmart, Paypal, and BMO.

Experience

Goodlife fitness

Product Owner

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Garrison alternative asset management inc.

Digital Product Manager

Jun 2021Dec 2021 · 6 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Smith school of business at queen's university

Vice President, Digital Business Club

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Kingston, Ontario, Canada

  • Co-chair of Smith Product Games

Bmo financial group

Software Developer (Contract Position)

Dec 2018Jul 2019 · 7 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Built a pipeline that gathers data from different components of the system, and consolidates it to generate reports which are used by the analytics team to generate insights. The reports also help the support team in troubleshooting.
Data GatheringData ReportingAnalyticsSoftware Development

Indian school of business

Research Associate

Feb 2017Sep 2017 · 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Created a system to collect data related to supply chain networks for thousands of firms from Bloomberg Terminal and to fetch financial data for these firms to analyze the impact of finances on supply chain networks
Data CollectionFinancial AnalysisData Analysis

@walmartlabs india

Software Engineer

Sep 2016Feb 2017 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built a large scale data acquisition and analytics platform that provides insights into catalog quality and competitive pricing. The main functions of this platform were to fetch competitive signals like product features and shipping details from various channels and give insights into the products which were sold at a higher/lower price on our platform than the competitors.
Data AcquisitionAnalytics PlatformSoftware Development

Paypal

Software Engineer

Nov 2014Sep 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on building a tool to validate the incoming data to our system before it gets transformed and stored. The data was stored in ElasticSearch and the validation checks were written as queries to ElasticSearch. Worked on building an alerting and monitoring framework for integrity and latency measures using NodeJS and AngularJS. Built a data pipeline that can subscribe to events of various domains and persist them for further processing
Data ValidationMonitoring FrameworkSoftware Development

Flipkart.com

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built a web crawler and spider to enable automatic competitive pricing. Worked on building various pricing policies like inventory-aware pricing and MRP-based pricing. Built an alerting system, which sends an alert when the number of pending items for price approval exceeds a threshold. Created a self serve pricing console where pricing policies can be added/edited/deleted by the business team. Also, built a self serve console for onboarding new R models for demand forecasting.
Web CrawlingPricing PoliciesSoftware Development

Education

Smith School of Business at Queen's University

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Digital Business

Jan 2021Jun 2022

Product Faculty

Advanced Product Management

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

MSc — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2013

Nirma University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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