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Chaitanya Tallapaka

Bengaluru

Summary

As an Operations head, I am a high-level executive with experience in setting up and scaling processes. My leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills are strengths I bring to any team.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Project Head- Disaster Relief Response

Donatekart
05.2024 - Current
  • Responsible for setting up Disaster Response team which works to bring transparency to CSR funds being spent.
  • Vetting NGO partners and Vendor partners and ensuring funds/ relief items are being used for the right cause and are given to the deserving people.
  • Working with law enforcement and government bodies to plan and implement Disaster Response.
  • Working with corporate partners to strategize and spend the CSR funds meaningfully.


Head-Trust and Verifications

Milaap
02.2021 - 08.2023
  • Scaled Trust and Verifications team from capacity to handle 12K tickets in Q4 FY21 to 32K tickets in Q1 FY22 with a peak of 14K tickets in June 21
  • This capacity building was achieved in a span of 2 months in the wake of spike in volumes due to COVID second wave medical needs
  • Setup centralized workflow process to bring SLA from 65% in Q1 22 to 98.5% by Q3 22
  • Maintained SLA above 98% for past 1.5 years
  • Worked with product team to automate 49% of queues within span of 5 months
  • Reduced loss to revenue due to fraudulent actors from 1.14% in FY 21 to 0.03% in FY 23
  • Worked with team of lawyers to initiate legal action in over 100+ cases to recover funds from fraudulent transactions
  • Worked with various government agencies like Enforcement Directorate (ED), Income Tax department (IT) to help agencies in various cases.

Operations Manager

SalesDuo
07.2020 - 02.2021
  • Handled 12 high value clients, setup/ improve their online sales
  • Increased average sales on these accounts by 20 times during Amazon peak season (Oct 20 to Feb 21) through various strategies
  • Increased sales of Trailcrest from $2K in Aug 20 to $460K in Oct 20
  • Worked with FUJI sports to decouple their brand name from Fujifilm's brand in Amazon's brand registry and subsequently increase FUJI sports sales by 20% very next month
  • Improved sales of Brownie brittle by over 40% in a span of 5 months by migrating them to Amazon Seller Central from Vendor Central thus increasing their profitability by using FBA.

Operations Manager

Featherlite Furniture
07.2019 - 07.2020
  • Onboarded Featherlite on to Amazon and Flipkart and created new revenue streams which generated sales of up to 15 lakhs per month
  • Represented company in case of escalations from Featherlite Franchises
  • Resolved disputes worth 17 crores by visiting and negotiating deals in 50+ locations across India in the span of 6 months
  • Setup featherlitestore.com within month post first COVID lockdown to cater to WFH employees and generated sales worth 4 crores in May and June 2020.

Senior Transaction Risk Investigator

Amazon
07.2013 - 05.2019
  • Started as Intern and converted to full time employee within 8 months of internship
  • Worked in various verticals in Merchant Risk investigations (MRI) such as Workflow team, QA team, Content moderation (ASIN Suppression) team
  • Trained, mentored and handled teams of up to 24 people between peak seasons in 2016 and 2018 in capacity of Peak Team Lead (PTL)
  • Established Merchant Credit team from scratch which dealt with payments fraud
  • Scaled process to handle 120 tickets per day to over 1000 tickets per day with an SLA of 99.8%
  • Automated 23% of process within the span of 10 months and was awarded best employee of the month
  • Recovered a Negative Seller Balance of $3.7 million in FY 2018.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Audisankara College of Engineering And Technology
05.2009 - 05.2013

Skills

Operations Management

Timeline

Project Head- Disaster Relief Response

Donatekart
05.2024 - Current

Head-Trust and Verifications

Milaap
02.2021 - 08.2023

Operations Manager

SalesDuo
07.2020 - 02.2021

Operations Manager

Featherlite Furniture
07.2019 - 07.2020

Senior Transaction Risk Investigator

Amazon
07.2013 - 05.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Audisankara College of Engineering And Technology
05.2009 - 05.2013
Chaitanya Tallapaka