Experience

Technical Product Manager

Jan 2024 – present

Artbasket.AI

New York, NY

Led the product and business development from concept to MVP, overseeing all aspects, from conducting customer interviews to identifying market opportunities, then coding up and deploying the initial MVP, and pivoting many times till the current product.
Led the development and alpha-launch of a tech startup focused on leveraging GenAI capabilities to streamline and showcase Gen AI comic content..

MBA Product Consultant

Jan 2024 – Mar 2024

CNN

New York, NY

Done as a collaboration project with Cornell University.
Conducted market research in identifying potential areas of opportunities and techniques followed by industry leaders for increasing employee engagement
Developed several GTM Strategies to improve employee engagement in e-learning courses like Mastercraft.

MBA Product Consultant

Aug 2023 – Dec 2023

JP Morgan Chase

New York, NY

Done as a collaboration project with Cornell University.
Condicted market research on building LLM tools for ChatGPT ethically while ensuring Data Privacy.
Developed a GTM strategy for rolling out an LLM powered employee training tool called Chatwatch.

Technical Product Lead

Sep 2021 – May 2023

Mercari Inc.

Tokyo, Japan

Promoted 3 times during my tenure at Mercari from Mercari Grade(MG) MG1 to MG4. See more details about each Mercari Grade at https://engineering.mercari.com/en/ladder/
As a product manager, I proposed and led the end-to-end development of a passion project inspired data-driven Achievements feature by collaborating with a cross-functional team of 20+ stakeholders in defining specifications, conducting user research, prototyping the POC, and testing a gamified reward system that boosted new user retention by statistically significant margin.
Led a 10+ engineer team to develop and maintain customer-facing backend APIs for serving Mercari's landing pages on iOS, Android, and web, achieving a 99.99% SLA for ~22 million MAU.
Successfully led my team in delivering 5+ core features on schedule, achieving a 90% on-time release rate as per our quarterly OKRs, by managing the production roadmap, writing design documents, conducting code reviews and clearing all production incidents.
Drove the initiative to establish the India branch by conducting 30+ technical interviews to hire the first group of senior engineers for the Mercari India Development center and setting standards and practices for all future interviews.
Unlocked a new stream of revenue for showcasing timely topics, sponsored content and advertisements in app by directing Topics Pickup feature development from 0 to 1 and successful launch by aligning the product roadmap and balancing customer needs and business impact, where I facilitated collaboration of mercari with third-party companies like Brutus Japan.
Organized company-wide Backend DevDojo sessions where I onboarded senior engineer hires, updated the outdated company tech and product documentation which led to a significant increase in page views and in surveyed satisfaction score.

Senior Software Engineer

May 2020 – Aug 2021

Mercari Inc.

Tokyo, Japan

In addition to developer responsibilities, I took on the role of an interim project-manager scrum master, where I planned and organized scrum events, tracked team OKRs and development roadmap, and deliverables for a cross functional team of 15 stakeholders.
Designed and developed KeyTrend feature following agile development principles that increased the GMV by statistically significant margin.
Planned and executed a complex PHP monolith to Golang microservices migration under live traffic that streamlined flow of execution, with the launched item-filter microservice serving a peak 5,000 requests per second.

Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Apr 2020

Mercari Inc.

Tokyo, Japan

Built and deployed data pipelines for batch processing user recommendations using Apache beam, Dataflow in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem.
Wrote unit, integration, stress tests and improved code coverage along critical path to over 80% from 55%.

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2014 – Nov 2014

Rane NSK

Chennai, India

Proposed and developed an inhouse data management system resulting in cost savings over $10k in software licensing payments.