Product Management Resume

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Hi Sandeep, Can you please share your email/Phone number to take advise on my resume - I am looking for product

manager positions at google with 15 years experience. Will really appreciate it

 Serving as Project lead for cost reduction efforts in Google Photos.


* Developed metrics for cost, proposed reducing cost based on user activity. Designed solutions targeting efficiency
and prioritization. Reduced video processing cost by 25%, storage cost by 5%, and counting.
* Reduced video playback latency from 5 mins to 30 secs for a 1min video. Coordinated across teams in Photos,
Youtube and Research leading architecture discussions.
* Added a new service within video infrastructure to handle metadata for transcodes handling about 50 million videos
a day.
* Architected and coordinated turning down legacy service powering indexing for Photos search.
* Collaborating across 3 Orgs working on standardized prioritization across infrastructure layers including services like
Bigtable, Spanner, Mapreduce.
* As part of Technical Infrastructure, worked on libraries for graceful degradation for microservices, prioritization and
load balancing for reducing peak load serving then about 400m qps. Promoted to SWE III and Senior Software
Engineer.
* Served as Tech Lead for a async publisher-subscriber proxy system for traffic shaping and improved reliability of
user facing traffic. Served about 1 million qps.
* Led team of 4 engineers to architect graceful degradation within the Photos stack achieving 99.9% reliability for
backend infrastructure.
* Architected a document collating expertise on various pipeline technologies within Google. Used as the best
practices document.
* One of the authors of Load Shedding and Load Balancing chapters in O’Reilly’s Site Reliability Book.
* Served on oncall rotation in a team of 4, responsible for Google Photos. Experience handling complex outages
spanning across Google services. SLO of 99.99% availability on serving services and 99.9% in backend, with a reaction
time of 5 mins.
* Revamped release process of Photos reducing maintenance overhead and time to push from >5d to 4-5h for 30-40
services. Standardized and automated process.

*Leading product vision for a team of 18 engineers for Kubernetes & GKE Networking and Network Security.
*Interfacing with customers, sales, marketing, UX and UI, legal, pricing and a variety of other functions to ensure
product delivery, meeting overall business goals.
*Worked on deliverables improving GKE enterprise operational, network and security models, as well as performance
and scale characteristics, driving adoption for large enterprises.
*Shipped key differentiating and deal blocking features for enterprises such as Shared VPC, Private Clusters, Network
Policies, Container Native Load Balancing, BackendConfig, integration with Network Services such as CloudArmor,
Identity Aware Proxy, CDN, etc driving the message that GKE is enterprise ready.
*Driving product definition and roadmap for Ingress from scratch.

I have over 25 years of comprehensive product experience in successfully delivering hardware, software, and services across
enterprise and consumer markets. With my deep product management, marketing and analytics expertise, I am adept at
addressing the challenges that face product teams when defining, developing and launching products. I am skilled at optimizing
processes to inspire innovation within product teams; independent of business environments (e.g., startup to large
corporations).

My diverse experience across a variety of market segments provides me with broad and unique perspectives as a means to
challenge innovation with fresh and creative approaches to deliver products that delight customers and deliver key business
results. I am a thoughtful individual, keen on developing strong teams that communicate and collaborate closely to efficiently
and effectively navigate the product life-cycle. I have deep hands-on experience successfully adapting best practices within a
spectrum of development environments and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.) in order to raise the
effectiveness of Product Management organizations. With my hands-on experience with coding, analytics, wireframes, UX, etc.,
I am able to apply these skills to translate customer needs into strong customer focused requirements that persuasively guide
development teams.

My strong leadership helps teams in rationalizing market insights and establishing clear product strategies and directions that
deliver competitive and differentiated offerings. I pride myself on easily moving back and forth between strategic views and
tactical responses. My efforts are based on a balance of driving effective development and launch efforts that deliver strong
business results, with a strong focus on making products easy and enjoyable to use.

I am always passionate about the intersection of technology and daily life, with a desire to build great things for where they
interact. 
I oversee the platform relationships, campaign management, yield, and inventory strategy for ATOM, the ad exchange
and auction-based media buying arm of Razorfish.
: Led the product team for features, UI experiences, quality and policy for the Google Knowledge Graph and Google
Cloud Storage, and Google Cloud Platform.
“YouTube Platinum award” for business impact and contribution.
Fast-track promotion
As a global lead within the YouTube Strategy team I led the projects across a range of areas, working closely with
YouTube's C-level execs and VPs, E.g.,:
- YouTube API strategy

SMB ads: My team owns Google Ads's SMB advertising experience end-to-end (Smart Campaign). This includes the
sign-up flow, ad serving, targeting, campaign management, reporting, etc. XXXk active advertisers and $XB in annual
revenue.

I lead a team of ~7 stellar PM's and Analysts. XFN team of 100+.

Product for
- Chrome/Android Payment Autofill
- Buy with Google
- Payments for merchants on Google.
- Offers and Engagement
- Payments Business Console

Built and directed a 10-person Product and Design team that successfully drove IGN to #1 position in comScore’s
Gaming Information Category, reaching 11M unique visitors monthly (was #2 in Sept 2008 at 7M).
• Led full site redesign with goal of gaining #1 position through core focus on SEO, usability, and revenue
optimization.
• Drove user engagement by revamping user registration, profile, and reputation platforms, building tools for user
generated content, and aggressively growing social media presence and referrals from Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube.
• Launched comprehensive mobile suite including native iOS, Android, Windows 7, and mobile optimized web
app.Developed and executed product strategy for the local search category, a category that accounted for $400M in
revenue in 2008. Responsible for developing local intent technology, improving local relevance, scaling local content
acquisition and management systems, and designing next generation local search user experience.

I am a software, hardware, and gaming enthusiast currently working as a Product Manager at Google. I've run my own
profitable gaming start-up, and I've dabbled with information security and 3D visualization start-ups as well. I like
working on resource-constrained products that need to get to market quickly. I love working with engineers and end-
users alike.

In addition to my high tech work, I have a solid background in sales and marketing operations and strategy, and I
have deep data analytics and mining skills.

Specialties: Product management: Product vision, strategy, requirements gathering, user interface (UI), and relentless
execution.

Marketing: Market research, market and customer segmentation, brand strategy, pricing, sales forecasting, and
market sizing.

Sales management: Sales strategy and operations, sales force sizing, targeting, and incentive compensation.

Industries: Internet, gaming, ads, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices. 

I lead the Chrome Web Platform's Content team. We are responsible for ensuring that the open web remains the best
place for users to access content on the Internet. We work across Google as well as our work with developers, the
broader web community, and standards-setting bodies.

Key projects include:


- Web APIs and technologies for Chromium, Chrome, and other Google apps
- WebSDK and Web frameworks
- Web authenticated identity

2010 - Present: Group Product Manager for Display and Video Ads, Interest-based advertising
- Lead Display and Video Ads' Privacy, Identity, and User Trust team.
- Launched signed-in ads for consented users. Users give their opt-in consent to receive better ads by using
information associated wtih their Google account and across devices. Plus, they get better control, such as a one-
click/tap cross-device opt-out of ads personalization across their Google services.

- Achieved large-scale demographic targeting to the Google Display Network, allowing advertisers to refine their
targeting to the right audience, optimize their ad bids, and tailor their creatives to maximize response. We're live in 39
countries. Launch announcement: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2012/09/finding-your-audience-with-
demographics.html

- Made content ads more relevant by allowing advertisers to reach users with specific interests. Launch
announcement: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/06/reach-your-audience-with-interest.html and More info:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

- Launched Google Display Network's AdChoices program, the world's largest participation in the Self-Regulatory
Program for Online Behavioral Advertising, to increase user transparency and control over ads personalization. Learn
more: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-in-ads-notice-label-and-icon.html

2008 - 2010: Product Manager for Help Center, Help Forum, and In-product Help
- Launched Guided Help, an innovative way for users to be educated on how to accomplish specific tasks without
needing to leave the product UI or read long articles

- Launched Help Forum, our support platform where users can learn how to use Google's products through the larger
Google community

- Modernized Google's Help Center to increase relevancy and make it easier for users to resolve their issues

Specialties: Online Advertising, Search Engine Marketing, Product Development, Product Management,
Distributed Computing, Service Oriented Architectures, Enterprise computing, Web Service Platforms, Storage and
Disaster Recovery solutions, Software Deployment, Programmability, Licensing and Security frameworks. 

My team builds Pinterest's ads products and formats.

Recent accomplishments:
* I built and scaled the performance ads business for Pinterest by building two new businesses from scratch - a
keyword-based search ads business and a feed-based shopping ads product.
* I bootstrapped both these products, starting with alphas and taking them to launch, hired the teams, built cross-
functional partnerships and scaled both businesses by 5-10x during the year working closely with sales and
engineering leadership to build and sell these products.
* Early in 2018, I took over the teams that work on our other ad products - including our core 'promoted pins'
product, our video ads product and our promoted app pins products and built a roadmap to make them scale further
this year.
* Additionally, I also run the measurement product team that builds our measurement pixel as well as our 3rd party
integrations.
* Manage a team of 6-7 PMs of various seniority levels and hired 2 new PMs in the last 6 months.

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