Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site

• Led data-driven GTM efforts for Common Optics by analyzing P&L tradeoffs and Quotes on Excel; partnered with customers, Account team and Sales to drive $60M revenue growth, 2x customer retention, 33% higher deal win rate
• Priced 50+ Optics for AI data centers (X, Meta) by analyzing supply chain and competition; prioritized EoL products, aligning forecasted demand, next-gen products, market trends; reducing excess inventory by 30%
• Performed market research to define use cases and drive 15% market share growth of Optics in AI cloud networking
• Synthesized diverse customer use-cases into prioritized software feature backlogs for NPI product development

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024 · 6 mos · Remote

• Crafted Product strategy and PRD with the CEO to optimize marketing budget allocation across Google Ads, Facebook Ads, leveraging AI multivariate regression models to improve ROI by 1.5x
• Conceptualized a multimodal LLM architecture integrating text, image, audio, and video processing (Magvit v2) with feedback algorithms aiming to increase user engagement by 25%

Nov 2023 – Jan 2024 · 2 mos · Global · Remote

• Drive fundraising (30k), partnership, and sponsorship avenues for revenue growth via math stories
• Build marketing strategies for increasing user engagement and retention

Aug 2023 – Jan 2024 · 5 mos · Durham, North Carolina, United States

Apr 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Enterprise Networking
• Collaborated with cross-functional technical and marketing teams across Asia and the US to deliver a security solution; product provided rules with real-time resolution of IP addresses with domain names for a $120M Microsoft project, leading to savings of $5M and 1500 person-hours
• Presented a business case for an internal meeting application plug-in to the management team, focused on optimizing user experience and reiterating user workflows and wireframes for a potential market demand of $3M annual revenue
• Conducted interviews to understand customer needs, prioritized action items, and launched a feature that optimized packet features, leading to faster data transfer between routers by 3x and a 70% increase in customer satisfaction
• Defined product requirements and functional specifications for enhancing file transfer capability for IOS clients; ensured adherence to development processes and facilitated the achievement of cross-domain team goals, resulting in an increase of 30% in customer acquisition
• Led maintenance initiatives with cross-domain teams from China and Tokyo to identify threats, reducing high-impact customer tickets by 80%; saving costs by $10M in 4 months
• Mentored and coached 10 recruits; conducted a comprehensive training workshop that enabled quicker onboarding, improving the learning curve to 2 months

Nov 2020 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• The Product Management club is an organization committed to supporting Cisco employees interested in PM. This club helps members break into PM roles by honing required skills through various events and workshops by leveraging the network of PMs and PM enthusiasts.
• Spearheaded a team of 10 and strategized the club’s development and team engagement, rolling out programs such as Stretch assignments, workshops, and Case study competitions; conceptualized and played a decisive role in grooming the talent pool
• Interviewed and recruited new leads, built a roadmap, and reorganized the team roles, increasing the club’s efficiency and reach with a 150% increase in the club membership
• Interacted with various Product Managers and VPs from different companies

Jun 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Enterprise - Platform Independent
• Coordinated operations across India and the US to build a load-balancer for a $100M project; reduced the massive traffic to the router firewall by 20% and enabled compatibility with older models
• Designed and launched an optimized background job tool in Python to automate bug submission and maintenance tasks, reducing the manual workload by 90%
• Persuaded management to adopt an improved product design strategy for an IPV6 network security rule variant, improving the product’s performance by 5x and generating additional annual revenue of $50M
• Organized a month-long organization-wide fitness challenge, persuading 200+ employees to engage in regular workouts, yoga, and healthy diet routines

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020 · 5 mos

• Enterprise Networking - Switching team
• Collaborated with Product Managers and the Marketing team to pitch a novel idea specifically for customer use
• Implemented a dynamic graphical user interface using React JS from scratch for customers to customise their switch’s table memory allocations.
• Built automation scripts for the end to end working of the model

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Secure Policy Access team
• Built an internal application that aids in simulating real-world Radius traffic for performance and scale testing
• Used socket programming and multi-threading for protocols such as RADIUS, RADIUS Accounting, PAP, EAP, EAP-FAST, EAP-TLS, PEAP
• Tested and Implemented end to end with iterative and incremental approaches of software development using AGILE methodology

Aug 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Delivered various talks on empathy and motivated volunteers to raise support for the cause
• Supervised and managed various projects in the city such as Volunteer sourcing, recruitment, induction and volunteer management.
• Supported the kids and youth by initiating various activities

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed a music streaming app and eventually grabbed an internship opportunity after a couple of interviews.

Jun 2018 – Jul 2018 · 1 mo · India

• Worked on determining whether an SQL or a NoSQL data model is better suited for dealing with healthcare data as its data is very inconsistent and practically incomprehensive.
• Wrote a paper on tackling this problem by running different types of queries on the same dataset loaded into both an SQL and a NoSQL database and then analyzing the respective efficiencies.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos

• A road safety alert system to warn drivers about potholes and road flooding during monsoon. Made an user interface safety alert system to warn drivers about potholes and road flooding during monsoon where we implemented rerouting method on maps and worked on sensors. Also worked on clouds for the data transfers between app and sensors during my internship in MIL