Software Engineer Manager

Leela Gutta (US Citizen)

***** ***** ***, *******, ** 94536

248-***-**** ***********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/leelagutta SKILLS

Business Product Management,Customer Interviews, Business Intelligence Software Jira, Confluence, Adobe Creative Suite, InvisionApp, Sketch, Google analytics, Tableau, Excel

Design Design Thinking, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, UX wireframing

Technology Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, Spring, REST, Junit, RabbitMQ, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins

Strategy Cross Functional Team Lead, Agile, User Stories, Innovation, Product Lifecycle, Product Roadmap, Lean Startup, A/B Testing, Quantitative Data Analysis, Stakeholder Management

EXPERIENCE

Golden Threads San Leandro, CA

Product Manager 01 /2016 – Present

● Responsible for end to end strategy, development and launch of Golden Threads’s fashion retail ecommerce store.

● Collaborated with cross functional stakeholders (Developers, Designers, Marketing and sales) to gather business requirements and define objectives.

● Designed solutions to penetrate new markets by developing product hypotheses through understanding the market, customer requirements, and the competitive landscape in the US which resulted in increase in brand awareness by 50% and revenue expectations by 25%.

● Conducted user research, interviews with end-users and gathered key stakeholder pain points to define the problem scope, Product requirement spec and the Minimum Viable Product.

● Collaborated with the engineering team in communicating team vision, strategy, setting up scope, prioritization and team objectives and key results.

● Led product marketing strategy and implemented measurable marketing programs that drove user acquisition by 65% and increase in page visits by 50%. Ellie Mae Inc Pleasanton, CA

Technical Product Manager 04/2018 – 09/2019

● Led product priorities and roadmap of a platform service tool that enabled Ellie Mae’s loan software tool (encompass) to automate processes which decreased loan origination costs by 10%.

● Led customer requirements gathering session, UX design brainstorming sessions, requirements prioritization and user story creation.

● Worked on designing and building API Integrations with engineers and architects that enabled EllieMae’s customers to automate their business processes and logic.

● Worked on communication around technical risks and prioritized backlog through constant A/B testing and user feedback resulting in 40% reduction in defects.

● Led quarterly planning, product reviews and retrospectives with key stakeholders.

● Built relationships with partners, including other Product Teams, Engineering, QA, Customer Support, and Data teams.

Ellie Mae Inc Pleasanton, CA

Software Engineer 03/2017 – 03/2018

● Built cloud based platform service using Restful API’s that triggered workflows based on business rules, to help automate the loan origination process which aids in cutting loan origination costs by 10%.

● Developed a notification system using AngularJS to alert the user to perform certain actions, which aided in decrease of manual errors.

● Ensured our product platform’s infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets SLAs for both external and internal users by building distributed systems using SQS and Kafka.

● Worked as a cross functional team lead in gathering technical requirements, grooming backlog with product and UI teams to prioritize and build features that are aligned with overall product strategy.

● Collaborated with UX team in UX design brainstorming sessions, requirements prioritization and user story creation.

Gap Inc San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer 05/2015 – 02/2017

● Built global promotional tools that assisted merchandise planners for Old Navy, Gap and Banana Republic in promotions which helped increase in sales by 10%.

● Worked on building independent web applications that converged multiple legacy systems into a unified platform which helped in decrease in wait times and increase in performance.

● Deployed applications on Cloud Foundry and asynchronous messaging queues that enabled lower downtimes.

● Worked with product to define acceptance criteria, managing backlog to bring clarity where needed and ensure alignment with project goals.

● Involved in design sprints alongside User experience, Product and Engineering teams. EDUCATION

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering 2010

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