Jul 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• As Group Product Manager, I led market strategy development and implementation with focus on regions where private messaging platforms are favored by users. I conducted extensive interviews with 100+ Gen Y and Z customers to extract insights and build compelling business case for new messaging app. My use of key influencers and engaging content drove robust user engagement.
• A few of my key achievements include:
• ▸Leveraged private interest-based group concepts to merge thought-provoking content with intimate discussions among friends and family, developed user cohorts to ensure product-market fit and early adoption, and built go-to-market plans.
• ▸Expanded engineering, product, and program team from 2 to 25 members by overseeing hiring and development.
• ▸Orchestrated launch of Udaan in India, driving rapid adoption by 15K+ college students from country’s top 10 colleges

Aug 2011 – Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• In this role, I scaled services for next billion users by focusing on user behaviors, motivations, and opportunities for product and service enhancement. I contributed to YouTube offline launch, enabling video downloads for offline viewing.
• A few of my key achievements include:
• ▸Introduced Google Voice, enabling users to search and speak in multiple Indian languages and launched Google in Hindi and allowing users to search in native language, resulting in 5x increase in query volume within 6 months.
• ▸Pioneered local language keyboards for users to perform searches with handwriting, enhancing accessibility and usability of services.
• ▸Orchestrated internationalization efforts to drive global growth of Google Search by launching Google’s first voice search product in multiple languages, revitalizing Google Now for emerging markets, and improving Indic language search.
• ▸Served crucial role in introduction of Android one, a no-frills, entry-level $100 phone with Google service integration.

May 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• In this role, I coordinated development and management of Bing’s middle tier query-serve framework to enable hosting applications through internal programming model. I also designed capacity models to accurately estimate hardware requirements for key Bing services, ensuring optimal resource allocation and scalability.
• A few of my key achievements include:
• Scaled system to abstract away complexity, redundancy, capacity management, networking, and resource management, reducing deployment and launch time for answer services by 50%, improving DSI, and enhancing customer experience.
• Managed development of Answers Top Level Aggregator by orchestrating queries across hundreds of applications in complex workflow graph and implementing resulting cache.
• Conducted comprehensive analysis, optimization, and performance enhancements to launch multiple features, reducing platform latency by 30%.
• Recognized for outstanding contributions with company-wide High Potential Employee designation.

Oct 2005 – Jun 2009 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• I build the frontend for our Office online product and built deep expertise in ASP, Javascript, server side programming and was responsible for key successful launches. I also played Product lead and was the key interface to our Product management team in Office. I drove the adoption of Dynamics UX framework across Microsoft Business Division.

Dec 2003 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Testing and validation of the Visual C++ Compiler and Intellisense engine. Included testing of modern C++ language features and .NET targeting compilation.

May 2003 – Jun 2003 · 1 mo · Redmond, Washington, United States

• As part of my internship at Microsoft Research, I designed a framework which
• analyzes the differences between two binaries at the basic block level using
• control flow, reach ability analysis and global data using a binary analysis. This is enables creation of a path which just contains the binary difference with fixups instead of a completely new binary.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs