shashank S.

Product Manager

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India17 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 15 years of experience in FinTech and AI/ML.
Proven track record in data-driven product management.
Global exposure in digital transformation across multiple markets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Manager with strong expertise in AI/ML and SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyProject ManagementTeam LeadershipBig Data AnalyticsAgile Methodologies

Other Skills

Product Lifecycle ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AISoftware as a Service (SaaS)CPaaSMetaLeadershipManagementNCMCPayment GatewaysPayment SystemsPoint of Sale (POS) SystemsAnalytical SkillsCheckoutSaas

About

Result-driven Product Manager with more than 15 years of expertise in FinTech, Telecom, E-commerce and banking. Proven record in data-driven decision-making, leading to successful product deliveries. Skilled in strategic planning, defining product roadmaps, market research, creating & validating hypothesis and team leadership. Global exposure in digital transformation across diverse markets including the UK, US, Canada, India, and South Korea. Specialised in building Agentic AI products , CPaaS, SaaS models, PRD definition, and operational SOPs. Proficient in driving product acceptance in global markets. Strong technical expertise to create Agentic AI, generative AI, Machine learning, Big Data, and real-time products.

Experience

17 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs

Current Experience

Paytm

4 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Product ManagementProduct StrategyProduct Lifecycle ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AISoftware as a Service (SaaS)+10

Product Manager 2

Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Product Management for SaaS switch for card payments and offline merchant payments in fintech innovations.
Ownership of Fintech products in Transit business including POS payments, NCMC, prepaid, debit and credit cards.
Hands-on Product Management experience for B2B and B2B2C scalable products in fintech and Analytics domain.
Creating and validating hypothesis for the product.
Leading and Mentoring PM and BA with encourage learning, enhance user experience, and engaging for better communication.
Skills:
Product Management: Product Strategy, Product Discovery, Product Roadmap and Launch, Market Research, Product Design UI/UX Figma Designs, Product KPIs/ Metrics, Product Audit and Compliance, Fintech, BFSI sector, Pricing strategy, Product flow designs for B2B and B2C, Own product requirements and Specifications, defining SOP, A/B testing
Strategy: Strategic Planning, Leadership, Data-Driven Decisions, Analytical Thinking, Problem solving skills

Software as a Service (SaaS)SaasBankingSaaS DevelopmentProject ManagementProduct Design+13

Product Manager

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr

Focus on NCMC Adoption in India.
Defining Product strategy and product plan for POS, Transit, Fintech, and banking services.
Define reconciliation and settlement tech and processes with finance and operations.
Define User stories and backlog grooming
Defining APIs and UI/UX designs
Client consulting in B2B and B2B2C space for Fintech products and defining product flows.
Working closely with NPCI and delivering to Metro Rail Organisations across the country.
Spearheading Merchant integration in financial systems.
Focus on cost optimization and build differentiation in the products.
Focus on MVP with prioritizing product backlog
Agile methodology
Review systems design with knowledge acumen in big data analytics, Machine Learning AI and real-time systems
Systems Designing with understanding of
language exposure of python, Java and SQL
real-time systems , lambda architecture, batch processing

Amazon Web Services (AWS)ScrumBankingBig Data AnalyticsProject ManagementAgile Methodologies+20

Engineering Manager

Apr 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs

Thoroughly Review PRD and Requirement specifications related to banking domain.
worked in Paytm Payments bank
define design documents
Data driven decisions
Architect and design real-time and batch processing in payment systems
Real-time transaction processing
lead the middleware micro-services in banking services
people management and Cross-Functional Leadership
negotiations
conflict management and situation management
highly involved in Risk analysis and risk assessments
project management on few occasions with ownership of quality
participate in UAT
quality management
Finacle - CBS exposure for banking use-cases
NEFT/RTGS, IMPS , UPI ,AEPS flows development
Merchant onboarding flows
API design and test and
complex test bed preparations for payment ecosystem
Automation and CI/CD
product deployment ownership
Big data and DWH reports ownership for banking flows
worked on languages : Python, Java and SQL
Engineering and Technology : Cross-Functional Leadership, R&D Exposure, Banking, Fintech, E-commerce and telecom domain exposure, Machine Learning, BigData, Generative AI, ChatGPT, co-pilot, People and program Management, Project and Release Management, Presales Exposure, Agile Methodologies
Technical Acumen: Microservices Designs, AWS, Python, Java, Linux, DWH, AI/ML, Mysql, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Aerospike, Rest APIs, UI/UX Figma designs, Excel, PowerPoint, ISO, JSON, XML formatters, ChatGPT libraries integrations, SQL, Oracle DB, OLAP and OLTP designs

Project ManagementTeam LeadershipProduct Lifecycle ManagementProduct Road MappingCommunicationBig Data+4

Thales

Principal SDET (Big Data AI/ML Platform)

Aug 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

Review and Challenge the Business requirement document (BRD) and Product Requirement Document (PRD) Big Data Analytics products in telecom and security domain
Product Development and Timely Delivery Management for AI-based Big Data Real-Time & Batch processing and Analytics products.
Quantitative and Qualitative analysis for challenges in Big data Analytics Platform Solutions.
Experience with building relationships, User Acceptance Trials, with top telecom and security Clients
Test Management for big data analytics reflex platform and solutions.
Deep dive with Machine Learning and Big-data technology: Batch and Real-Time Systems and data pipelines with raw data from telecom, ML/AI-based CDAP pipelines (owned by Google).
Data-Driven Generators for ETL batch & real-time pipelines to support product development.
Hands-on experience with big data technologies including Hadoop, Yarn, Spark, MapReduce, Hive, Tez, Spark SQL, Kafka, KafkaMirroring, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Prometheus, HBase NoSQL DB, Impala, PrestoDB.
Gelled up with Hortonworks HDP/HDF and Cloudera Hadoop Distributions with security compliance included with Ranger, Atlas, Kerberos, KnoxSSO, LDAP services, encryption, SSL/TLS.
Learning curve is always the prior choice in work with determination of quality delivery.
Design and Implemented CI/CD for product development cycles.
Design and develop the framework in python for test data generation, validation, and regression test automation framework for quality delivery of big data solutions.
Experienced the startup environment with challenging work, innovative ideas, tight deadlines, and quick deliveries with maintaining the quality of the solution to multiple customers.
Experience the Agile process Model with fast execution on the plan with Scrum and Kanban framework processes.

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software as a Service (SaaS)ScrumBig Data AnalyticsProject Management+14

Makemytrip.com

Deputy Manager

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon

Leading the team for data platform solutions quality and big data platform deployment activities. Ownership for design and develop test automation frameworks for big data platform. Setup the QA processes within team and data quality standards across the lobs. Responsible for Quality deliveries of big data solutions for line of business. Keep watch on Cloudera deployments and maintained the big data platform with devOps.
Online travel (OTA) - Data Science and Machine Learning based BigData Platform for real-time and batch solutions for line of business (LOB)
Research paper published- "Design & develop framework fused with BigData Platform".
R&D and Deep dive with Machine Learning and Big-data technology: Batch and Real-Time Systems and data pipelines with raw data from telecom, ML/AI-based recommendation system, Campaign managers, and Data schema manager.
Data-driven decisions and batch pipelines creating over airflow and
Deep Dive with Cloudera Big Data Distribution and manage the Travel domain data over various components include Hive, Hadoop, PrestoDB, Hue-interface.
Pixel data extraction and wrangling the data from various sources include Apps, Web crawlers, APIs to enrich the experience for end customer.
Realtime pipelines and batch pipelines data validation with self-designed homegrown test framework over which research paper published.

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)ScrumBig Data AnalyticsProject ManagementAgile Methodologies+12

Guavus

3 roles

Lead Technology QA

Mar 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Test Planning, Test Design, Test Estimations, Test case writing and review, Test execution for big data analytics solutions.
Hands on experience with big data technologies include hadoop,yarn, Spark,mapreduce, columnar database, hive,spark SQL, HBase noSQL DB
Learning curve is always the prior choice in work with determination of quality delivery.
As a lead quality analyst, implemented CI/CD for product, acquire knowledge on python with multiple packages. Design and develop framework in python for test data generation, validation and regression test automation framework for big data solutions.
Developed quick solutions with shell and perl on demand basis.
Experience the startup environment with challenging work, innovative ideas, tight deadlines and quick deliveries with maintain the quality of solution to customer.
Experience the agile methologies with fast execution on the plan with scrum and sprint processes.
Depolyment experience on customer sites with acceptance testing and product delivery responsibities with partners Samsung, S Korea.
System Testing, build verification testing, sanity tests, Adhoc Testing, Functional Test, Performance test for big Data eco system.

AlgorithmsScrumProject ManagementAgile MethodologiesTeamworkMachine Learning+2

Senior SQA

Promoted

Apr 2013 – Feb 2014 · 10 mos

Test Planning, Test Design, Test Estimations, Test case writing and review, Test execution for big data analytics CDN, media and Subscriber Reflex product.
Hands on experience with big data technologies include hadoop, mapreduce, columnar database.
Design and develop framework in python for test data generation, validation and regression test automation framework for Media and Subscriber solution using mapRreduce framework with hadoop streaming.
Developed quick solutions with shell and perl on demand basis.
Experience the startup environment with challenging work, innovative ideas, tight deadlines and quick deliveries with maintain the quality of solution to customer.
Experience the agile methologies with fast execution on the plan with scrum and sprint processes.
Depolyment experience on customer sites with acceptance testing and product delivery responsibities with L3 support to production deployment team in US.
System Testing, build verification testing, sanity tests, Adhoc Testing, Functional Test, Performance tests for big Data eco system.
Memory monitoring for caching nodes on production like test enviroment

ScrumBig Data AnalyticsAgile MethodologiesTeamworkMachine LearningUnix+2

SQA Engineer

Sep 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

Test Planning, Test Design, Test Estimations, Test case writing and review, Test execution for big data analytics CDN Reflex product.
Learn and hands on with big data technologies include hadoop, mapreduce, columnar database
Learning curve is always the prior choice in work with determination of quality delivery.
Acquire knowledge on python with multiple packages. Design and develop framework in python for test data generation, data and functional validations
Developed quick solutions with shell and perl on demand basis.
Experience the startup environment with challenging work, innovative ideas, tight deadlines and quick deliveries with maintain the quality of solution to customer.
Experience the agile methologies with fast execution on the plan with scrum and sprint processes.
Depolyment experience on customer sites with acceptance testing and product delivery responsibities with L3 support to production deployment team.
System Testing, build verification testing, sanity tests, Adhoc Testing, Functional Test, Performance tests for big Data eco system.
Memory monitoring for caching nodes on production like test environment.

ScrumBig Data AnalyticsAgile MethodologiesTeamworkMachine LearningUnix+2

Ibm

Associate Software Engineer

Dec 2010 – Sep 2011 · 9 mos · Pune · On-site

Product : Systems Director
Systems and Technology Group, IBM Software Labs
Test Planning, Test Design, Test Estimations, Test case writing and review, Test execution for IBM System Director product.
Involved in design discussions and bring input to made the product cycle shorter with agile development methods.
Developed the framework for BVT and smoke testing in python and shell.
Hands on exp in IBM Systems Director and IBM systems X with BVT, CVT and SVT
Applied skills on shell and python scripting.
Mentoring and knowledge share among new and old team members.

AlgorithmsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)ScrumAgile MethodologiesTeamworkUnix+1

Persistent systems

Software Engineer

Sep 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

QE Server Engineer with hands on exp in IBM Tivoli and Microsoft server products
Experience in Perl scripting automation testing
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Installation, configuration and troubleshoot Experience on following tools:
Microsoft Exchange server
MS SQL Server
Tivoli Products : ITM. ITCAM. TEC, TCR
Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, DB2