Deepen Kothari 607-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/deepenkothari27

adz1r2@r.postjobfree.com Seattle, WA (open to relocation)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Technical Product Manager with an expertise in delivering products in the FinTech and Cloud Computing industries. Skilled in leading cross-functional Agile teams, defining and executing roadmaps, and leveraging technical expertise to drive buy-in from stakeholders.

WORK EXPERIENCE Senior Product Manager – Technical

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Seattle Aug 2022 – Mar 2023 Owned the product strategy, roadmap, and launch & expansion plans for GPU products in the EC2 team. Managed cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, finance, product marketing, legal, forecasting and supply chain teams.

• Launched Amazon’s G5, G5g and G4 products to 3 new regions – Stockholm, Frankfurt and Spain. o Reduced Insufficient Capacity Errors by up to 10% in top 3 AZs in 2 months by demand shaping customer workloads. o Developed go-to-market plans and pricing strategies specific to each expansion based on demand signals and usage across AWS regions.

• Developed comprehensive product narrative and PRFAQ for a new GPU product to offer 2-3x price performance improvement and right-sizing opportunities for graphics and ML workloads.

• Formulated the Pricing strategy, Total Cost of Ownership and Marginal Analysis for the new GPU product.

• Developed AWS’s instance retirement strategy to migrate 2000+ customer workloads from older instances to newer AWS instances – pitched proposal to VP and Senior Leadership, including a 1-year technical roadmap.

• Managed cloud usage forecasting for G instances to adjust quarterly and monthly POs for inventory, to manage maintenance and expansion plans alongside stakeholders in supply chain, rack planning, capacity planning and demand shaping teams. Technical Product Manager (Credit Risk & Structured Financing Solutions) Standard Chartered Bank, Bangalore April 2019 – May 2021 Launched 3 critical Risk Computation web applications - Led an Agile SCRUM team of 7 (engineers, UX designers, testers).

• Owned Technical roadmaps, and led backlog refinement, sprint planning, and sprint review sessions with dev team & other stakeholders.

• Delivered Credit Pricing and Operating Risk computation tools to digitize computation and reporting of Risk metrics for incoming clients. o Delivered REST APIs to automate annual business criticality reporting for 50k clients. o Achieved 80% reduction in onboarding time for corporate banking clients.

• Transformed legacy ETL Batch application into a Spring Boot Batch application – achieved 90% improvement in monthly data processing time.

• Launched a slice & dice KPI dashboard for Relationship Managers to monitor their portfolio KPIs – grew application to over 6k users. Product Developer

Standard Chartered Bank, Chennai July 2014 – March 2019 Led Monolith to Microservices migration strategy for Corporate Banking CRM application – used Java, Jboss Fuse, Kubernetes, SpringBoot, SpringBatch

• Engineering and Product Management: Took ownership and designed the product development strategy to transform a Monolith CRM web application into Microservices & APIs. Facilitated collaboration among 3 independent teams to ensure on-time delivery of every phase of development

• Problem Solving: Reduced deployment downtime from 16 hours per release to just 2 hours per module by reducing dependencies between modules and enabling modular software release.

• Innovation: Developed multiple POCs in partnership with the DevOps team to migrate legacy applications from on-premise servers to cloud and received the GEM (Going the Extra Mile) award for the initiatives.

• Writing: Documented Technical Specifications Docs, reviewed Functional Specifications Docs and ensured every change or new functionality was well documented on the team's confluence page to ensure knowledge sharing and collaboration.

MBA PRODUCT MANAGEMENT PNC Bank, New York (MBA Fintech Intensive Project) Jan 2022 – May 2022

• Worked with the Auto-loans Product team - Analyzed historic auto-loans data and conducted market research to identify customer trends.

• Explored vehicular use and need of credit, and prepared business case around gig workers as a customer segment for auto-repairs BNPL product. Turtle Technologies, New York (MBA Product Studio Project) Aug 2021 – Dec 2021

• Worked alongside the founding team to build a prototype for startups and SMBs to hire academic faculty fractionally - integrating skill-based matching, task management, contracts & payments on a single platform. Interviewed 30+ users to gather pain points and validate hypothesis.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Tools: Tableau, Postman, SOAP UI, Swagger, Figma, JIRA, Confluence

• REST APIs & Microservices • Data analysis – SQL, Tableau, Excel • API-first approach • Agile methodologies • Java

EDUCATION

• Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, New York, NY May 2021 – May 2022 Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Fintech intensive, Product Management Certificate, Merit Scholar

• National Institute of Technology, Trichy (NITT), India May 2010 – May 2014 Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Communication Engineering - Merit Scholar

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