Piyush R. Gupta
Product Manager, C loudTags, Bangalore I IM Lucknow
+91.991-***-**** i ***.******@*****.*** h ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mbapiyush Summary
Currently a Product Manager at CloudTags in Bangalore, India for the mobile and platform team. Has 9+ years of total experience and believe in the MVP approach of shipping early and often. True believer of Agile practices
Post Graduation from I IM Lucknow in 2013 in Marketing and Strategy
Roles and Responsibilities
Market Research, Segmentation, Expansion
Customer Research and need analysis
Defining Competitive Landscape
Defining Product Roadmap
Refining usability of both mobile and web apps to improve end user experience, identifying loose ends by data analysis and intent capture both by scientific and manual methods
Interacting with users, clients, sales, marketing, management teams
New Feature Development and defining success parameters
Grooming Product Backlog and Prioritising
Sprint Release Planning and Risk Management
Defining Acceptance Criteria
Briefing business goals to engineering team
Working with engineering team to help them understand business requirements and solve technical challenges by providing technical solutions
Planning timely releases and interacting with various stakeholders
Has a strong hold on O mnichannel experience both online and offline
Highly competent in collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple teams
A keen follower of A gile/Scrum(CSM Certified)
Work History
Designation Duration Company
Product Manager October 2013 Present CloudTags Innovations Pvt Ltd Senior Software Engineer
August 2011 October
2013
Global Logic Pvt Ltd
Senior Software Engineer April 2009 July 2011 23 Impressions Software Solutions Software Engineer July 2008 March 2009 InsightPath Pvt Ltd (BlueWhale Lab) Software Engineer June 2007 July 2008 CircleSource Software Tech. Pvt Ltd Education
Course Institution Specialization Year
MBA IIM Lucknow PGDM Marketing and Strategy WMP 2011 2013 B.Tech RIEIT Computer Science 2003 2007
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Piyush R. Gupta
Product Manager, C loudTags, Bangalore I IM Lucknow
+91.991-***-**** i ***.******@*****.*** h ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mbapiyush Awards
Recognition Company Year
Employee of the Year CloudTags Innovations Pvt Ltd 2015 Employee of the Year CloudTags Innovations Pvt Ltd 2014 Excellence Award CloudTags Innovations Pvt Ltd 2013 LnD Expert Award Global Logic Pvt Ltd 2013
LnD Amateur Award Global Logic Pvt Ltd 2012
Excellence Award 23 Impressions Software Solutions 2011 Certifications
Course Institution Year
Certified Scrum Master Scrum Alliance 2014
Executive, General Management (EPYP) IIM Calcutta 2010 2011 Skills
Market
Research
Customer
Research
Competitor
Research
Product
Strategy
Product
Backlog
Release
Planning
Data
Analysis
Product
launch and
training
Mobile and
Web
Applications
Omni Channel
Strategy
Market
Expansion
Market
Segmentation
A/B Split
Testing
Agile /
Scrum /
Product
Owner /
SDLC
WireFraming
Usability
Research
iOT Cloud
Opportunity
Assessment
Omni
Channel
Retail SaaS CRM
E Commerce
Applications
Analytics
MixPanel Crashlytics Popapp Pooplet AppSec
Pivotal
Tracker/JIRA
Apptentive
Survey
Monkey
Keynotopia /
Paper /
Balsamiq
Relic ELK
jQuery
Ruby on
Rails
BLE
Barcode
NFC
Shoe Stamp
MailChimp /
Sendgrid
AWS
Heroku
Linode
Social APIs
RDBMS
TDD
Rspec
Selenium
Gephi iPad
GIT
SVN
Android
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Piyush R. Gupta
Product Manager, C loudTags, Bangalore I IM Lucknow
+91.991-***-**** i ***.******@*****.*** h ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mbapiyush Recent Projects
CloudTags Inc.
Atlanta based product company which works on Omni Channel digitally connected store experience with the help of emerging technologies and data analytics. It also involves data driven marketing, analytics and a lot more
Tools
Analytics and intent capture MixPanel, Google, AppSec
Product Roadmap Aha
Data Analysis ELK, Gephi
Idea Generation and Brainstorming Popplet
Prototyping PopApp
Design and Usability discussions Basecamp
Product Backlog and Release JIRA/ Pivotal Tracker
Summary
Responsible for managing the complete product life cycle
Coordinating with the marketing team and conducting market research for the requirement of new product and the response towards our existing products
Conducting new product testing with the help of marketing people
Coordinating with Clients and other stakeholders in different geographies for requirement gathering
Coordinating with the designing team for the designing and improvement of the products
Taking the report of competitors activity in the market
Creating user stories and defining acceptance criteria
Working closely with engineering team for giving timely sprint based releases with utmost importance to quality and performance
Providing solutions for features by researching into alternates to help engineering team
Achievements
Instrumental in expanding into US and UK markets with over a dozen paying customers with more than 2000 stores
Introduced in store remarketing which increased click rate by over 70%
Introduced digital marketing to help convert sales by around 10% to online channels
Reduced new client onboarding from 1 month to 3 days
Revamped complete product platform to increase performance by over 200% also reducing release cycles
Remodelled product offering from Koisk based to Bring Your Own Device
(BYOD) abiling over 80% increment in data capture rate 3
Piyush R. Gupta
Product Manager, C loudTags, Bangalore I IM Lucknow
+91.991-***-**** i ***.******@*****.*** h ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mbapiyush Global Logic
Technology Stack
Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Redis, Ajax, Solr, jQuery, Ajax, Payment gateways, OpenSSO, Java/JSP, E commerce, Banking, BDD/TDD, RSpec, Selenium, Agile Summary
Projects B ank A lliance, Bank Of America, GXS, GLO, Hilo, E sign Engine
Role T eam Lead, Developer, Scrum Master, Presales
Lead the team and was involved in code reviews, scrum master, architecture
API Integrated PayPal, Birkman, Social API, GeoLocation
Did TDD using rspec, cucumber, factory girl, spork, watchr, bamboo
Worked on POC for I prof, and investigated various options in ROR, PHP, Java 23 Impressions
Technology Stack
Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Solr, jQuery, Ajax, Social, E commerce, Ajax, Internalization, GeoLocation, Postfix, PayPal, TDD, RSpec, Selenium, Agile, SendGrid Summary
Projects Balatarin, Million Twitter Followers, Campus Yap, Burda Style
Role Developer, Business Developer
Was involved in Business Development for a few projects and used platforms like Elance, GAF and others
Used Social API, PayPal, Active Merchant, Postfix for various clients Insight Path (BlueWhale Labs)
Technology Stack
Ruby on Rails, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, TDD, RSpec, Selenium, Agile Summary
Projects Lil Grams, Front Channel, Vivanista
Role Developer
Early adopter of GIT and jQuery
Being a product based company was involved in all of its products right from the beginning
Contributed in designing of the application and user experience
Experimented with Sinatra in hobby projects
Circle Source
Technology Stack
Ruby on Rails, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax, TDD, RSpec, Agile Summary
Projects C omply Md, My Online Practice, Analog Analytics
Role Developer
Did 6 months of internship and was offered a job
Early adopter of Ruby on Rails in India
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