Kishan Patel

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led CommerceIQ from inception to a billion-dollar valuation.
Achieved 30% increase in team productivity using AI tools.
Built and scaled a successful engineering team in India.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with expertise in cloud migration and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Software DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (ai)Data VisualizationSoftware ArchitectureCloud ComputingCloud MigrationInfrastructure ManagementJavaInfrastructure Automation

Other Skills

AI toolsTeam LeadershipAgile MethodologiesData StructuresAlgorithmsMicroservicesAWSGCPMultithreaded DevelopmentHigh-Level DesignBack-End Web DevelopmentGitHub CopilotLangChainNeo4jPrompt Engineering

About

I have 10 Years of experience. I helped CommerceIQ grow from 0 to 1 Billion $ Company. I have been with CommerceIQ since the inception of CommerceIQ and have played a pivotal role in building the CIQ product and platform. Engineering leader with 10 years of experience in building, scaling, and delivering high-impact software products. I’ve been leading engineering platform teams as a Software Development Manager, driving both technical excellence and team growth. I've successfully led teams across multiple geographies, collaborating across time zones and cultures to ship mission-critical features, modernize architectures & scale platforms. I built a Platform Team in India after acquiring an e-fundamentals company. Team scale from 0 to 18 members under my leadership. 15 members reporting to me. 30% Increase in Team productivity with the help of AI tools like ChatGPT & Github Copilot. I worked on complex projects like Nexis - AI powered Takeaways, Dashboard Platform, Crawl Platform Unification & GCP to AWS re-architecture I focus on empowering engineers, fostering innovation, and creating environments where great teams build great products & platforms. I'm passionate about mentoring, growing future leaders, and aligning engineering efforts with business goals. Education: I am a Gold Medalist in M.Tech in Software Technology from VIT University with 9.41 CGPA.

Experience

12 yrs

Total Experience

5 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Bazaarvoice

Software Development Manager

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Engineering ManagementGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)

Commerceiq

Software Development Manager

Apr 2015 – Jun 2025 · 10 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

I’ve been leading engineering platform teams as a Software Development Manager, driving both technical excellence and team growth
I've successfully led teams across multiple geographies, collaborating across time zones and cultures to ship mission critical platform features
I built a new Crawler Platform Team in India after acquiring an e-fundamentals company. Team scale from 0 to 18 members under my leadership. 15 members reporting to me. I set the processes and rotational on call.
I own quarterly roadmap planning. I established the visibility of the next 1 year road map #See Big Picture
Dev Productivity Metrics: 30% Increase in Team productivity with the help of AI tools like ChatGPT & Github Copilot. I educate the team on prompt engineering. Crawler extractor development time reduces from 5 to 7 days to half day. 12X productivity due to No/Minimal code solution. Nexus/Dashboard platforms reduced new insights report development effort by 5X, 25 days to 5 days.
Scale Metrics: Crawler Platform scaled by 4X. Web retailers grew by 3.4X [300-> 1019]. App retailers grew by 17X [10-> 171] in the last 2 years.
Stability Metric: 0 Platform Downtime in the last 3 months. Number of critical issues reduces from 30 to less than 1 issue per month.
Cost Metric: 1: Reduced crawl volume by 28% - 23M out of 82M. 2: 33% - $100K/Month reduction on infra cost. 3: 30% - $80K/Month reduction on crawl cost. 4: 47% cost reduction on storage cost. $59K to $28K.
Team grown well under my leadership. 5 promotions in the last 1 Year. 50% of the team was promoted. I mentored and developed future leaders and a first-time manager from within the team. Team appreciated that they learned a lot during the last 2 years.
I worked on complex projects like Nexis - AI powered Takeaways, Dashboard Platform, Crawl Platform Unification & GCP to AWS re-architecture, 3rd Party Gather.

Engineering ManagementGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)AI toolsTeam LeadershipAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development

Vmware

MTS Intern

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Key Responsibility:
I developed Infrastructure automation framework for VMware Cloud environment to meet easy configuration and provisioning need.
I evaluated Chef & Puppet automation framework & automated VMware products using that.
I drive the adoption of the technology across VMware teams.
Technology: Java, spring, Virtualization, Chef, Puppet, Ruby, Redhat.

Multithreaded DevelopmentJavaInfrastructure Automation