Satya Devarakonda

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founder of multiple successful SaaS startups.
Expert in building enterprise-grade SaaS solutions.
Proven track record in product management and leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product executive with extensive experience in enterprise solutions and data integration.

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Skills

Core Skills

SaasProduct Management

Other Skills

AuthenticationUser ManagementAudit LoggingData IntegrationCloud ComputingPerlTechnical LeadershipMySQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)XMLLAMPPHPLinuxMemcachedWeb Services

About

Software product executive with a track record of leading entrepreneurial ventures (2x) and teams in large organizations. Building Scalekit - an Auth platform that enables SaaS products to scale effortlessly into the enterprise segment. Scalekit simplifies enterprise infrastructure for SaaS companies by offering Authentication, User Management, and Audit Logging as pre-built platform components. Using Scalekit, SaaS engineering teams can quickly implement enterprise capabilities into their products with just a few lines of code. Scalekit substantially shortens time-to-market to grow into the enterprise customer segment and saves engineering costs — allowing SaaS teams to focus on their core product and not be burdened with the overhead of developing and maintaining enterprise platform capabilities. We are hiring for multiple roles: Product Manager, SDET Engineer, Visual Designer. Please write to careers [at] scalekit [dot] com if you’d like to apply.

Experience

20 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Scalekit

Co-Founder & CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Scalekit is a SaaS-first Auth solution that enables companies to scale effortlessly into the enterprise segment.
Large organizations only choose SaaS products that offer enterprise-grade Authentication, User Management, Authorization, and Audit Logs. Today, most SaaS teams default to building these capabilities internally with dedicated engineering teams or by leveraging open-source solutions.
These alternatives substantially increase the time-to-market to grow into the enterprise segment. Moreover, it takes the engineering team’s focus away from the core product, adds the overhead of developing and maintaining these essential capabilities, and significantly increases product and engineering costs.
Launching and growing a SaaS company is hard enough. Acquiring larger customers should not be.
Scalekit simplifies enterprise infrastructure for SaaS companies by offering Authentication, User Management, and Audit Logging as pre-built platform components. Using Scalekit, engineering teams can quickly meet enterprise requirements in under two weeks.
We’re currently building Authentication and User Management before expanding to other enterprise platform capabilities.

AuthenticationUser ManagementAudit LoggingSaaSProduct Management

Career break

Health and well-being

May 2023 – Dec 2023 · 7 mos

Took time-off to refresh, decompress.

Freshworks

4 roles

VP, Chief of Staff to CEO

Promoted

Jun 2020 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

My mission at Freshworks was to help CEO and Exec team be more productive and successful. Reported to the CEO and worked alongside the Executive team.
Lay down company's priorities; cascade down goals to next level leadership; and support in executing towards goals
Define and execute Rhythm of Business including exec meetings, BU reviews, Qtly Func Reviews, Leadership offsites.
Support in preparing for quarterly board meetings
Help CEO in day-2-day business operations:
Act as trusted thought partner in decision making, goal setting and problem solving
Identify and prioritize issues to effectuate decision making; provide analysis & recos to make key business decisions
Oversee company-wide initiatives and lead discrete projects on behalf of CEO - align and operationalize across various functions.
Manage CEO Office team: recruit team for business operations
CEO Communications: partner with corp comms to develop strategic messaging for CEO - internally and externally. Manage speaking engagements; Calendar of events

Senior Director, Chief of Staff to CEO

Jun 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

In addition to the Chief of Staff role, lead Freshchat product growth:
Grow and expand Freshchat to $$M
Responsible for the overall performance of the business unit, measured by revenue
Oversees a team of Prod and Engg leadership; Prod Mktg leaders; and Business Ops
Lead Strategic Acquisitions as part of CEO Office. Part of the core leadership team that executed a few deals:
AnswerIQ: AI/ML in enterprise customer support
Flint: IT orchestration and cloud management

Director, Chief of Staff to CEO

Promoted

Jan 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

Lead a couple of strategic acquisitions as part of CEO Office. Part of the core leadership team that executed a few deals:
Zarget: Conversion Rate Optimization, Marketing Software
Natero: Customer Success software

Director of Product Management

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos

After Pipemonk got acquired by Freshworks - I spent few months integrating tech, products, and team into Freshworks. Setup the initial team/tech to build integration platform at Freshworks.

Pipemonk (formerly zapstitch)

Co-Founder and CEO

Sep 2013 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pipemonk is a cloud based Data Integration Platform that seamlessly integrates and/or migrates data between various SaaS/Cloud B2B apps like Shopify, QuickBooks, Freshdesk, SalesForce, FreshBooks etc.
Pipemonk lets you:
Sync two or more SaaS/cloud business apps.
Save time by eliminating manual data copy. Exchange/Transfer accurate and consistent data between various systems in near real-time.
Let business teams focus on growing business (and not worry about keeping systems in sync).
In Aug 2016, Pipemonk is acquired by Freshworks.

Yourbus (acquired by goibibo)

Co-Founder and CEO

Jul 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We provide real time location alerts to intercity bus passengers and bus operators.
Primarily responsible for Sales, Business Development
50% contribution in building product, technology.
Built the entire team
Raised Angel Investment Money
Expanded product presence to Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad
Tech skills used : Apache, PHP, MySQL, XML, AWS, Memcached.
Yourbus is acquired by Goibibo.

Data IntegrationCloud ComputingSaaSProduct Management

Yahoo!

Techincal Lead

Mar 2008 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible to build & manage News, Sector News, Personal Finance sections on finance.yahoo.com
Primary accountability to manage, on-board 10+ News Providers like Forbes, Businesswire, AP, etc
Revamped & migrated a lot of areas in Y! Finance to support Localisation (l10n) & Internationalisation (i18n)
Transitioned several pieces of work within Y! Finance from US to Bangalore