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Akshay GURNANI

CTO/TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER / Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master
Ahmedabad

Summary

Capable of delivering Product Roadmaps, Vision, Industry Trends, Enterprise Technology Strategy, and Reference Architectures to Business Units. Strengths include product lifecycle management, product roadmap, product strategy, business process analysis, product vision, and requirement management. Experience with elicitation techniques such as interviews, exploratory prototypes, observation, user task analysis, documentation studies, and surveys. Experienced in digital transformation and product development from the ground up, with a clear inception, development, A/B testing, deployment, and launch strategy.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Technical Project Manager

Expedia Group, Mahindra
09.2022 - Current
  • Taken Ownership of new feature development through every stage of the software development lifecycle and work with team and company resources to refine team SDLC
  • Prioritized providing transparency to our work at all levels, from ideation to delivery
  • Created roadmaps, program plans, and scrum boards
  • Set up a calendar and facilitated cadence, agile events and shared measurable outcomes
  • Facilitated economic decision making and managed budgeting
  • Coached and empowered the team while providing transparency to the connection between measurable outcomes, plans, and delivered work
  • Collaborate with technical stakeholders, engineering teams, and cross functional teams to support technical solutions
  • Collaborate with product teams to provide detailed specifications that satisfy scalability, reliability, and performance goals
  • Drive innovative designs and technical solutions that provide scalable and reliable solutions to satisfy experience, reliability, and performance goals
  • Feature delivery through every stage of the agile software development lifecycle
  • Perform project management activities, which include active mitigation of any risks to the project scope and schedule and provide status updates
  • Manage the team roadmap and team prioritization activities
  • Effectively manage trade-offs between cost, schedule and customer benefit; and provide technical direction and guidance
  • Lead discussion and documentation of lessons learned and drive continuous improvement into all project processes
  • Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.

PRODUCT MANAGER

Unlimited Wordpress
Ahmedabad
08.2020 - 05.2022
  • Increased average length of user retention by 30% by Providing free SEO
  • Manage product development process from product management point of
  • Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
  • Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision
  • Gathered the data and pitched it in front of key stakeholders
  • Develop product positioning and go to market strategy; collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and products
  • Identify areas for growth and create strategic product line roadmaps to help drive adoption of the product and differentiating features
  • Analyze potential partner relationships for the product and lead the effort to integrate our applications with other leading industry systems
  • Work with QA engineers to create test plans
  • Scaling the engineering team by forming cross functional team, implementing SCRUM and CI/CD Pipeline
  • Keep abreast of the goings-on in the industry
  • Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision
  • Manage all lifecycle stages for a product from ideation through sunset, with responsibility for ensuring that deliverables are understood and releases are delivered on time
  • Manage the product backlog, create and ejective vision and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iteration
  • Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
  • Developed and reported on customer analysis Increased new customer trials/revenue

CTO / TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER

Sulphur Technologies
Ahmedabad
02.2018 - 08.2020
  • Designing and building the Minimum Viable Product and eventually recruiting the team and training them to scale it further
  • Assisting with architectural decision making and evangelizing technology adoption and design thinking across the team
  • Presented category insights and new item recommendations to major retailers and led teams in developing marketing, pricing, product and sales strategies.
  • Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
  • Scaling the engineering team by forming cross functional team, implementing SCRUM and CI/CD Pipeline
  • Improving the communication between the teams by building Design Systems, Style Guides and technical documentations
  • Building and integrating the analytical and business intelligence tool to enable the Data Driven decision making
  • To set the long-term vision and strategy for company product's
  • Manage the product backlog, create and ejective vision and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iteration
  • Developed and reported on customer analysis Increased new customer trials/revenue

WEB DEVELOPER

Rushi Global InfoTech
Ahmedabad
09.2016 - 09.2018
  • Back-end development with PHP Laravel and Managed to complete successfully more than 6 Module Development
  • Designed interface mockups, database ERD, and design documentation
  • Planned website development, converting mockups into usable web presence with HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and JSON coding.
  • Coded websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery languages.
  • Deployed and maintained systems in LAMP and WAMP (MSSQL) environments
  • Implemented analytical and legal document reporting systems
  • Developed Integrated SOAP and REST web services as both client and provider.

Education

Master of computer application -

CHARUSAT
India
6 2014 - 4 2016

Bachelor Of Computer application -

Semcom | S P University
6 2011 - 4 2014

Skills

Product Management

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Projects

Expedia Offers
Expedia Group|Tech Mahindra | September 2022 – Present
URL : www.expediagroup.com/ ·  Expedia Group, Inc., headquartered in Seattle, owns and operates travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Ebookers, CheapTickets, CarRentals.com, Expedia Cruises, Wotif, and Trivago ·  Technology: Java,Kotlin,CI/CD,AWS,GIT,CASANDRA,AWS
PRO IMAGE SPORT  

Unlimited Word Press | Ahmedabad | Aug 2020 – May 2022

URL: https://proimagesports.com/

·  The nation's  largest  franchised  sports  apparel  retailer at Pro Image Sports, they sell everything an avid sports fan needs including officially licensed hats, jerseys and accessories for all your favorite teams from the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, and NCAA.

Technology : Bagisto, Laravel, CI/CD, Digital Ocean, API, HTML5


LIQUOR ENGINE

Unlimited Word Press | Ahmedabad | Aug 2020 – May 20222

URL: https://store.liquorengine.com/

·  Liquor Engine provides a ready-made websites and a mobile app to the Liquor stores. Liquor Engine sync all the products and inventory with the store POS.

·  Technology: Laravel(php), Android, iOS, AWS, MySQL, EDIS, Git, Firebase, Jenkins, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Sketch, Adobe XD, Socket Io


FITZOH - UNIVERSAL FITNESS APP

Sulphur Technologies | Ahmedabad | Feb 2018 – Aug 2020

URL: https://www.fitzoh.com/

·  Fitzoh fitness helps Gyms, Personal Trainers and various fitness studios reach new clients, cater to their existing ones with enhanced value-added services, and promote a healthy lifestyle for everyone with the use of Online Training Programs using latest Technology and Innovations. We are dedicated to providing all our clients the best features and services to make sure they get benefitted the most from using Fitzoh.

·  Technology: Laravel(php), Android, iOS, AWS, MySQL, EDIS, Git, Firebase, Jenkins, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Sketch, Adobe XD, Socket Io


AUTOMATIVE BATTERIES - AUTOMATIVE BATTERIES

Sulphur Technologies | Ahmedabad | Nov 2019 - Dec 2019

·  Auto-Mative Batteries is the one-stop app to help you find the right battery for the right purpose. Be it batteries for your car or bike, this appwill help you find the correct battery for the specific make and type of your vehicle. This app also provide search options, which can help you find your product in an easier way.

·  Why Battery App - Auto-Mative Batteries?

·  Easy, user-friendly search options and a simple

·  navigation system are the key aspects of this app. Be it

·  your car or bike, we have battery solution for every model or manufacture of the vehicle.

·  Also we are asking the user information like contact number to send them promotional information and their inquiry details.


FLEET MANAGEMENT

Sulphur Technologies | Ahmedabad | Jun 2019 - Oct 2019

·  Fleet Management refers to the applications, tools, technologies and practices that help businesses maintain optimal use of their work vehicles from a central platform. In its current form, Fleet Management entails the use of: database information software. telematics and GPS tracking software.


INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEM AUTOMATION

Sulphur Technologies | Ahmedabad | Jan 2019 - Oct 2019

·  IntiSense automated imagery system replaces the manual quality control measures taken in various industries including automotive, pharmaceuticals, machine builders, food packaging, etc. with image sensors. Our image processing sensors take a picture of the product and analyze it using 20 different image processing tools for simultaneous inspection of the end product.


GLOBAL GARNER – UNIVERSAL APP

Rushi Global InfoTech | Ahmedabad | Sept 2016 - Oct 2018

URL: https://www.globalgarner.com/

·  Global Garner is a universal app with reward programs which provides myriads of services to its users. Bill Pay & Recharge, Gift Vouchers, Affiliate Stores, Hyper Local Stores, Flight Booking, Hotel Booing etc. are some of the services. The app is available on multiple platforms along with other applications available for Vendors and Channel Partners.

·  Technology: Laravel, ReactJS, Android, iOS, AWS, MySQL, REDIS, Git, Firebase, Jenkins, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Sketch, Adobe XD




Timeline

Technical Project Manager

Expedia Group, Mahindra
09.2022 - Current

PRODUCT MANAGER

Unlimited Wordpress
08.2020 - 05.2022

CTO / TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER

Sulphur Technologies
02.2018 - 08.2020

WEB DEVELOPER

Rushi Global InfoTech
09.2016 - 09.2018

Master of computer application -

CHARUSAT
6 2014 - 4 2016

Bachelor Of Computer application -

Semcom | S P University
6 2011 - 4 2014
Akshay GURNANICTO/TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER / Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master