Oct 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• As a seasoned product leader at Sonatype, I spearheaded the strategic migration of Sonatype's products to the cloud, driving business growth and cost optimization. Key accomplishments include:
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Defined and executed requirements for security, encryption, privacy, authentication, and disaster recovery, ensuring the highest standards of cloud security and compliance.
• Product Market Fit: Led agile teams in rapid experimentation to define product-market fit for Sonatype Lift, a cloud-native SaaS platform for software engineers. This innovative solution automates security and quality into the developer workflow, enabling engineers to focus on innovation.
• Auth0 Integration: Led the end-to-end implementation of Auth0 across all Sonatype products, enhancing security and user experience, resulting in an increase in user satisfaction.
• Business Case Development: Developed a comprehensive business case for integrating Auth0, identifying key use cases and aligning with Sonatype's strategic goals.
• Key Expertise:
• Cloud Product Management
• Security and Compliance (SCA, SAST)
• Resiliency and Privacy
• Customer Feedback and Advocacy
• Agile Methodologies
• B2B Product Development (Engineering and Tech Teams)
• Cloud Cost Optimization
• Product Market Fit and Experimentation
• DevSecOps
• Threat Detection and Vulnerability Management
• Achievements:
• Market Expansion: Spearheaded the launch of the first SAAS version of Nexus security products, bridging a $40 million market gap and expanding the total addressable market by 30%.
• Thought Leadership: Delivered a featured talk at Developer Week ‘24, one of North America's largest conferences, on "Building Resilient Tech Teams" to an audience of over 200 delegates.
• Team Development: Mentored junior PMs, facilitated L&D workshops, and improved team performance by 20%.
• Compliance: Collaborated with Security/Privacy/Reliability teams to ensure SOC-2 compliance of new SAAS Application.

Mar 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• At Capital One, I led the development of a real-time, intelligent machine learning model platform (business rules engine) as Product Manager of Fraud Detection, driving innovation in fraud countermeasures.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Agile Team Leadership: Led a team of 5 developers and an agile lead, fostering collaboration and efficient delivery.
• Product Ownership: Built and prioritized the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder requirements.
• End-to-End Delivery: Executed the entire product development lifecycle, from gathering business requirements to leading agile ceremonies.
• Data Management: Ensured critical data availability in Snowflake data warehouse and customer service agent platforms, adhering to data quality standards and regulations.
• Release Management: Developed a strategic plan for a critical infrastructure upgrade, enabling faster microservices deployment and development.
• Key Expertise
• Fraud Detection and Prevention
• Machine Learning and AI
• Agile Product Management
• Team Leadership and Collaboration
• Business Requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Data Management and Governance
• Release Management and Deployment
• Microservices Architecture

May 2019 – Mar 2020 · 10 mos · Toronto, Canada Area · On-site

• A DMZ-accelerated company, Clik.ai is an AI-powered automated underwriting platform for real estate lenders and brokers, that helps them reduce processing times by as much as 70%.

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• As one of the 5 Extreme Blue Business Interns across Canada, I worked with IBM Workflow to create a proof of concept for an Intelligent Recommendation System which would optimize business processes and help enterprises reduce costs and increase their revenue per employee. POC is currently being integrated into IBM's suite of automation products. Performed market analysis, competitor and industry research and financial and ROI analysis, leading a team of 3 Software Developers.

Apr 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr · Toronto, Canada Area

• Selected as the Managing Director of York Consulting Group, Canada's largest student-run consulting group. Leading a team of 25 consultants and responsible for being the sole interface between 15 clients (last year), faculty and student consultants. Supervised more than 8 projects responsible for revenue exceeding $100,000.

Nov 2017 – Jun 2018 · 7 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• As the largest business school-consulting firm in Canada, YCG has developed a significant base of expertise and breadth of industry knowledge. Currently working with one of Toronto's largest real estate firms to expand their market to different verticals and make recommendations based on return on investment (ROIs). In addition, I'm also providing strategic technology advice and conceptualising a digital platform for the firm to increase revenues even further.

Feb 2017 – Aug 2017 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• A sequoia capital funded company, Emeritus is India's second biggest e-learning platform. I was responsible for a complete overhaul of the customer experience and pricing strategy, resulting in a 20% increase in quarterly revenue. Co-ordinated with marketing and sales teams to formulate a sales enablement strategy, leading to 15% increase in number of customers.

Mar 2016 – Oct 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As a Product Manager at NDTV Worldwide, I implemented a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to stream videos real-time and at the best possible streaming speeds. I also performed data-driven UX Design to re-design its apps which resulted in greater user engagement. I also implemented a chat-bot end-to-end on NDTV's Facebook page, which has more than a 100,000 daily active users. I also worked with the marketing, analytics and sales teams to assist in carrying out successful marketing campaigns with high ROIs.

Dec 2014 – Nov 2015 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I was one of the early engineers/analysts in an Adobe Marketing Cloud product for analysing advertising data to make key decisions and predictions, contributing to the architecture and implementation of the design. I was a backend engineer, programming in Java, Python and MySQL, responsible for the data layer in the technical architecture. I was also responsible for tracking and optimizing key metrics using A/B testing and usability analyses. As a scrum-master, I was responsible responsible for executing best practices of Agile Methodologies for team collaboration, resulting in the creation of the MVP in 8 months. This resulted in revenues of over $3 million in the first quarter for Adobe.

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Cagliari Area, Italy

• Worked on software process simulation according to the AGILE process, using Smalltalk.

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked as a software engineering intern, on automating more than 80 APIs in the Adverting Technology Group, Yahoo!. Included working on the LAMP technology stack, including PHP and MySQL.