Kavitha HN

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14 years of experience in product management and front-end development.
Expert in building product vision and strategy.
Proven track record in increasing product adoption.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with strong front-end development skills in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStakeholder ManagementSoftware DevelopmentProblem SolvingFront-end Development

Other Skills

Roadmap PlanningUser Interaction AnalysisReactJavaScriptC#ASP.NETRESTful Web APISQL ServerReact JSCI/CDRedisWeb DevelopmentNodeJSDockerAWS

About

I’m Kavitha Vikas, a Product Manager with over 14 years of experience — 10 years as a front-end developer and the last 4 years shaping impactful products that align with business goals and user needs. I specialize in increasing product adoption by building solutions with clear value propositions, backed by strong user insights and stakeholder collaboration. From defining vision and strategy to crafting roadmaps, cause-effect diagrams, and capability matrices. I focus on delivering measurable outcomes. What excites me most is solving real problems for users — through meaningful interactions, deep dives, and partnering with engineering teams to arrive at the best-fit solutions. 🔹 Strong in building product vision & strategy 🔹 Experienced in stakeholder management & maturity models 🔹 Skilled in user interaction analysis, capability evaluation, and roadmap planning

Experience

18 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Tesco bengaluru

2 roles

Associate Product Manager

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · India

Worked on a product that helps engineering teams deploy to devices with high degree of accuracy, speed and transparency. The product support about 50k deployment across multiple geos across the world.
Worked cross product to collaborate with multiple teams.
Interviewed multiple users to understand problems and later implementing multiple features that help them save time.
Implemented multiple processes to streamline development work, provide transparency on deliveries.
Own and build the roadmap that includes new features, support tickets, operational efficiency and innovation.
Drive executive communication with quarterly business reviews, showcasing current and future view of roadmap.

Product ManagementStakeholder ManagementRoadmap PlanningUser Interaction Analysis

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2010 – Mar 2020 · 9 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Part of building a website for Tesco Colleagues and suppliers to manage promotions in UK Stores with highest transparency and audit trail.
Developed UI on React JS , maintained shared repository of components to be used by Tesco Engineering community.
Worked on CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment practices in my current team
Was part of the team that built the cache layer in Redis for data that does not frequently change.
Most Recent Project - My Product Promotions: August 2017 to Present
Leading a team of 2 developers and responsible for sprint on sprint deliverables.
Was responsible for building ReactJS front end
Was responsible for a NodeJS API layer for business logic and validations which then interacts with a spring boot data abstraction layer.
AWS based infra and the application were running on Docker containers.
Helped build the CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and integration with git. Each check-in triggering build and deployment.
Built the cache layer in Redis for data that does not frequently change.
Nginx based routing logic.

React JSCI/CDRedisWeb DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentSoftware Development

Tesco

Lead Software Engineer

Mar 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Hands on experience in developing enterprise-class web-based applications using React, Javascript, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, RESTful Web API, XML, JSON, SQL Server, Visual Studio.
Strong coordination with architects and analyze requirements of web application implementation.
Very good in problem identification and troubleshooting and highly stressful conditions.
Provide technical coaching to new team members and help them onboard.
As a lead/SME, I had to travel to UK (Welyn) and South Korea (Seoul) to complete assignments.

ReactJavaScriptC#ASP.NETRESTful Web APISQL Server+2