Rakshith Shastry

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Keynote speaker at international conferences.
Expert in driving software product life cycles.
Passionate about engaging with global customers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in Software Development and SaaS.

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FlexAJAXWeb ApplicationsColdFusionJavaScriptSoftware DevelopmentJavaJava Enterprise EditionActionScriptProduct DevelopmentScalabilityDistributed SystemsMobile ApplicationsRequirements AnalysisSQL

About

Rakshith is passionate about his role in Product Management. He specializes in driving and leading software products through their life cycles, defining the vision for the product, coming up with ideas to drive the product vision, engaging with customers and taking products to the market. Rakshith has several years of R & D experience working with and building software products. Rakshith enjoys speaking at various international conferences and interacting with customers across the globe. He has spoken as a keynote speaker at various conferences in United States, Europe and Australia. He has also been a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore.

Experience

22 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Salesforce

2 roles

Senior Director of Product Management

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Director of Product Management

Apr 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Adobe

4 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Mar 2021 · 1 mo

Senior Product Manager

Jun 2011 – Jan 2021 · 9 yrs 7 mos

Computer Scientist

Jan 2008 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos

As a Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems, Rakshith has contributed to the product with his ideas and by building various interesting features. He is also responsible for introducing new technologies into the product. He has represented Adobe Systems at various conferences and training.

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos

Rakshith worked on multiple product releases and features under each release. Rakshith took full ownership of features right from designing the features according to the needs of the customer, develop, fix issues to eventually presenting the feature to customers at conferences.

Product school

Featured Speaker

Dec 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Founded in 2014, Product School is the world’s first technology business school. As a featured speaker, I help inspire the next generation of Product Managers to create innovative products and apply best practices in their work.

Indian institute of management, bangalore

Student

Feb 2013 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs

Huawei technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2003 – Jun 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos

As a Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Technologies, Rakshith worked on range of new products the company was planning to introduce in the market. His ideas and vision helped shape the product. He also holds a patent for one of his ideas.

Infosys

Software Engineer

Aug 2003 – Dec 2003 · 4 mos

Understand the requirements of the customer from the onsite engineer, develop the software based for the corresponding requirements and also guide the development team in India towards the right implementation of the requirements.