Sharad Lahoti

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product development for multiple startups.
Expert in predictive technology and inventory management.
Hands-on experience with AWS and product prototyping.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in SaaS and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentPaymentsAsic DesignVerification

Other Skills

Predictive technologyIntelligent inventory managementAWS servicesMock-up designClient managementInventory managementContent & Catalog ManagementWarehouse Management SystemMerchandisingPayment productsTreasuryCompliance & RiskTest planningDebuggingBusiness Analysis

About

Sharad has played the 0 to 1 Product Manager and Entrepreneur role across various industries and startups in last 6 years. With strong technical understanding and problem solving skills he has solved customer needs building products in the areas of - Merchant Onboarding, Payments for Utilities/Schools/Housing Societies, Online Payment Products for SME/Individual Business, Marketplace Settlement & Treasury, Warehouse Management System for one of the largest e-grocers in India, Predictive Merchandising & Inventory Management for Enterprise scale retailers. Sharad has managed multiple products portfolio and led the product roadmap to meet the vision. He has also been quite hands-on Product Manager who doesn’t shy away from designing mockups in Sketch/Figma/Invision, to using python to do extensive data analysis, writing algorithms for replenishments or forecasting, coding google scripts to automate various tasks (He had built the MVP of merchant onboarding completely on Google Docs, Have managed to build a slack app for managing & reminding chores) and extensive testing of the products he has been involved with. Sharad is very curious about products and platforms. He is always interested in finding interesting products and understanding the business use-cases they cater to. He is a product person with very strong execution and disciplined approach coupled with designing/hacking quick prototypes.

Experience

17 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

5 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Twilio

2 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Leading platform products for IAM at Twilio

Product ManagementProduct Development

Principal Product Manager

Sep 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Product ManagementProduct Development

Sprintai

Co-Founder

Jan 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

SprintAI is a Y-Combinator & Target Accelerator backed startup building Predictive technology to power omnichannel customer experiences -
Intelligent in-season inventory management (via replenishment & inter store transfers) for fashion retailers with Online + Brick & Mortar channels. Shown 4-5% increase in revenue consistently for our clients.
Improving Realtime In-Store Inventory visibility for online orders (Buy Online Pickup In Store, Ship From Store etc)
Predictive allocation of merchandise across fulfilment centres & stores to deliver the customer orders in shortest time and lowest cost
Acting as CPTO leading the product as well as engineering for SprintAI -
Designed & led the development of multi-tenant backend
Architected the data ingestion and demand forecasting systems
Built the Minimal Viable Product to validate & gather customer feedback
Learnt & guided team to implement various AWS services like Batch, Athena, ECR
Hands-on POCs with open-source tools (Airflow, Superset) to fast-track development
Designed all mock-ups, landing pages and marketing collaterals
Involved with pretty much everything including sales pitches, client management, algorithm design to testing

Predictive technologyIntelligent inventory managementAWS servicesMock-up designClient managementProduct Management+1

Wyngcommerce

Co-Founder

Mar 2017 – Dec 2017 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Started a Cross Border E-Commerce company taking Indian SME Brands & Manufacturer to global marketplaces such as Souq, Amazon US, Amazon UK, Japan, Walmart, eBay etc.

Grofers

Principal Product Manager

Oct 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

Joined Grofers as part of acquisition of SpoonJoy. As the Principal Product Manager I managed the following product & use-cases for Grofers -
Content & Catalog Management System : Built internal tools for onboarding large number of products from merchants & brands, managing pricing & inventory visibility.
Warehouse Management System : Built in-house WMS from scratch supporting Cycle Counting, Bulk Inventory, Casing and expiry date management.
Built collections feature to support merchandising and category management teams to run special events, promotions and sales.

Content & Catalog ManagementWarehouse Management SystemMerchandisingProduct ManagementProduct Development

Spoonjoy.com

Core Team, Product Management

Mar 2015 – Oct 2015 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Part of Founding team and leading PM & digital marketing for the cloud kitchen + meal delivery startup

Payu

2 roles

Lead Product Manager

Promoted

Apr 2014 – Feb 2015 · 10 mos

Building payment products for the two fastest growing business verticals -
Longtail Merchants Business Line (Individuals and Small-Medium Businesses)
Compulsive Merchants Business Line (Govt, Utilities, Education Institutes and Housing Societies)
Also responsible for product development for internal operations –
Treasury
Compliance & Risk
On-Boarding & Support

Payment productsTreasuryCompliance & RiskProduct ManagementPayments

Product Manager

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos

Urbantouch.com

Sr. Manager, Operations

Aug 2012 – Mar 2013 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

Nvidia

2 roles

Asic Design & Verification Engineer

Mar 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore, India

Verification of peer to peer and graphics memory system of Nvidia’s Fermi, Kepler and next generation of graphics processors
Working on verifying one of the most complex sub system of a graphics chip for deadlock cases.
Involved in implementing various features, enhancing the Vera based testbench and implementing functional coverage for various interfaces involved.
Also responsible for writing testcases and preparing testplan for new features.

Asic Bring-up Engineer

Aug 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore, India

Worked in post silicon bring up, validation and debug of DDR2/DDR3 memory controller for Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M/ION and GeForce 320M series products.
o For the 2 generations of chipset products, have worked on theoretical delay estimations and post silicon validation of various memory I/O.
o Been involved in general ddr3 memory bringup.
o Have become familiar with various on board debug techniques and use of oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers and Arium.

VerificationTest planningDebuggingASIC Design