Ajay Krishnan

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven ability to scale products to multi-million ARR.
  • Expert in defining pricing and go-to-market strategies.
  • Strong technical foundation with cross-functional leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with expertise in enterprise solutions and data platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementTechnical Product Management

Other Skills

RBACDisaster RecoveryPrivate Networkinghybrid governanceCloud Schema RegistryCLI toolinginfrastructure costsreliabilityperformanceProduct AdoptionCustomer ExperienceEngineeringProduct LaunchProblem SolvingProduct Road Mapping

About

Staff Product Manager with 11+ years of experience spanning Product Management (7+ years), Software Engineering, and Analytics, specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native data platforms. Proven ability to scale products from early adoption to multi-million ARR, define pricing and go-to-market strategy, and deliver high-impact capabilities. Strong technical foundation with a track record of leading cross-functional teams to solve complex customer problems and drive measurable business outcomes.

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
3 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Confluent

3 roles

Staff Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos

  • I currently lead the Stream Governance charter (Schema Registry and Stream Catalog) at Confluent for its Apache Kafka–based streaming data platform, serving thousands of enterprise customers and over a million developers. Scaled the business from early traction to significant ARR growth by overhauling pricing and packaging and delivering enterprise-grade capabilities such as RBAC, Disaster Recovery, Private Networking, and hybrid (on-prem + cloud) governance through the Unified Stream Manager initiative. I also led architectural optimizations for Cloud Schema Registry to materially reduce infrastructure costs while improving reliability and performance, built custom CLI tooling to unblock critical customer workflows, and represented Confluent as a keynote speaker at Kafka Summit Bangalore 2024.
RBACDisaster RecoveryPrivate Networkinghybrid governanceCloud Schema RegistryCLI tooling+2

Senior Product Manager

Mar 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Product AdoptionCustomer ExperienceProduct Management

Product Manager II

Aug 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Product Manager owning the data governance charter at Confluent.
EngineeringProduct LaunchProblem SolvingProduct Road MappingTechnical Product ManagementUser Research+5

Microsoft

Product Manager II

Jul 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for creating and maintaining the vision, roadmap and implement key features for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) product area for Azure Synapse Analytics – a cloud big data platform, which has 10k+ enterprise customers.
  • Conceptualized availability zone, clone, and undo drop feature for Synapse Dedicated SQL pools – interviewed multiple customers to analyze their needs for a BCDR solution for their big data workloads, collaborated with various stakeholders to finalize on the technical solution
  • Did comprehensive competitor analysis to identify gaps and possible solutions in the BCDR space – played the role of a thought leader internally to provide information and socialize the importance of BCDR and how competitors were aggressively tackling them
  • Provided technical guidance on using available Azure Services to enhance the BCDR experience for customers
  • Conducted various product enablement sessions for different features for customers, sales partners, channel partner
EngineeringProduct LaunchProblem SolvingProduct Road MappingTechnical Product ManagementUser Research+4

Ibm isl

Product Manager

Apr 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for conceptualizing key product features, build and deliver on product roadmap for Core Platform, Channel Partner Platform, Analytics and Security modules of IBM MaaS360 product, which has 17k+ enterprise customers and ~8 million active users. Some of the key highlights include:
  • Designed, led implementation, and launched User Based Risk Management for MaaS360, a security feature that allows administrators to identify users who are a risk to the organization. The feature currently has adoption of ~10% of our customer base and is being integrated with other security products in IBM
  • Conceptualized and implemented License Management for MaaS360, a feature to give IT administrators control over license unit distribution and prevent them from incurring unwanted extra costs. The offering reduced the number of billing disputes by ~90% MoM
  • Implemented various improvements to the MaaS360 platform such as simplification of the end-user auth configuration options, make certain features self-serviceable and web-service API enhancements
  • Led implementation of various enhancement requests by customers such as enhancements to search capabilities, auditing capabilities and GDPR compliance there by managing expectations of our large customers
  • Initiated platform modernization efforts which included researching current customer problems, conducting interviews with various stakeholders and engaging with designers to create a fulfilling user experience for platform administrators
EngineeringProduct LaunchProblem SolvingClarityProduct Road MappingTechnical Product Management+6

Flipkart

Recommendation Analytics

Apr 2018Apr 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for defining key product metrics, build a roadmap for analytics instrumentation and create prototype of mathematical models to improve recommendations shown on Flipkart app/mobile website/website. Some key highlights:
  • Defined metrics to measure success of the recommendations in Flipkart which constituted aspects of coverage and quality measured across various dimensions such as business unit user journey, user intent, type of recommendations and business unit
  • Defined and led execution of instrumentations to be implemented in the product to track user behavior via product metrics
Problem SolvingClarityAnalytical Skills

Cognizant

Senior Business Analyst

Apr 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr · India

Microsoft

Program Manager Intern

Apr 2016May 2016 · 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • MBA internship as a marketing program manager for Microsoft Mobile Apps. Come up with Go To Market plans for the iOS release of two Microsoft mobile apps.

Symantec

Software Engineer

Jul 2012Jul 2015 · 3 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Part of the e-Discovery team. As as software engineer take part in scoping the requirements for new features, fixing defects and code new features.
Problem Solving

Nvidia

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2011Jun 2012 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • The internship involved the main project along with development of internal tools that can be used independently or integrated into larger software products.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

PGDM

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Information Technology

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