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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Singing, Cricket, Star gazing, Humanism
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Damoder Reddy

Product Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

Knowledgeable product manager with strong background in product management, delivering impactful product strategies and successful product launches. Demonstrated expertise in market analysis and cross-functional team leadership. Proven ability to drive product development and manage lifecycle processes effectively.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language

Work History

Product Manager

Dunnhumby
04.2023 - Current
  • Worked on a greenfield project to develop a retail media platform.


  • Collaborated with engineering, design, architects, and customer success to deliver high-impact product releases.


  • Managed stakeholder communications and provided regular product updates to leadership.


  • Managed two scrum teams to deliver high-impact features like forecasting, new advertising formats which has increased the revenue impact of 1 million NZD.


  • Conducted competitor analysis, and user testing to identify key opportunities for product improvements.


  • Utilized Agile methodologies to streamline development processes.

Senior Technical Solutions Engineer

dunnhumby
06.2018 - 03.2022
  • Helped to automate operations related tasks on Facebook, Google Ad Manager platforms to decrease repetitive tasks by 30%.
  • Assisted clients integrate and deploy dunnhumby media solutions for onsite and offsite products.
  • In-depth knowledge of advertising products like GAM, Facebook, GCM, DV360, AdX and retail media platforms like Kevel, Citrus ad.
  • Interacted with clients to understand effectiveness of our solutions in their advertising portfolio.
  • Worked closely with client and data science team on scoping, defining data requirements for dunnhumby's digital products.
  • Debugging and maintenance of automation scripts.
  • Extensive usage of Atlassian tools such as Jira, Git, and Confluence.
  • Deployed Jira projects for internal workflow management and integration tracking.
  • Designing internal web apps using Flask or Django for tools and client demos.
  • Liaising with multiple teams within the organization and offering my expertise as an advisory role for deployments, integrations, automations, product development and enhancements.
  • Developed API tests for the web service REST.
  • Deployed ad server using APIs with python as backend.
  • Training internal teams on products like JIRA, automations, and web apps etc.
  • Preparing relevant documentations on how to use the internal apps for different third-party digital products.
  • Managing a team of three as a lead.
  • Setting the OKIs and assigning tasks to the team.
  • Discussing the quarterly, mid and yearly review and closing them.
  • Guiding the team on various tasks and helping to accomplish them by creating best practices and documenting them.

Technical Engineer

Sociomantic
09.2016 - 06.2018
  • Assisted clients with integrating the remarketing solution of Sociomantic.
  • Created support documentation that empowered and enabled user community to extend skills, leverage system features and find resolutions to questions without intervention from support team.
  • Monitored client's product level imports through feed/API to ensure that no campaigns are affected.
  • Wrote automation scripts for raw feed generation and maintained it.
  • Engaged in tool and process improvements to streamline customer success activities and services.
  • Documented all transactions and support interactions in system for future reference and addition to knowledge base.
  • Identified and solved technical issues related advertising operations using variety of diagnostic tools and tactics.
  • Managed clients' expectations of support and technology functionality in order to provide positive user experience.

Publisher Account Manager

Venturist Inc (d.b.a AndBeyond.Media)
10.2015 - 09.2016
  • Cultivate and Nurture relationships with Publishers.
  • Perform all aspects of day-to-day customer activity and set long term partnership goals.
  • Active monitoring and collaboration with sales and technical to ensure smooth and timely onboarding.
  • Ensure client success and satisfaction with AndBeyond.Media solutions.
  • Manage business and technical escalations, and constantly communicate with all stake holders to maintain momentum and success.
  • Proactively engage with publishers and upsell opportunities within the offering to generate new business.
  • Utilize deep business understanding of the organization and offering to develop a business strategy.
  • Actively monitor opportunity matrix between supply and demand.
  • Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and technology developments.

Support Engineer

HCL Technologies Limited
07.2010 - 10.2015

• Implementation consulting with the Google Publisher Tag and various add on products such as DFP Video Ad Serving, Ad Exchange (Open auction, Preferred deal and Private auctions) and AdSense.

• Training Account Managers and clients over VC for OPG India partners.

• Ad Inventory Management and Optimization.

• Campaign Management training and assistance.

• Yield Optimisation assistance through Ad Exchange, AdSense and other ad networks.

• Interviewing candidates for Google Ad operations project.

• Testing ad serving features on websites by trafficking them on test networks.

• Troubleshoot client’s web pages to help them in resolving their issues related to Ad serving (Video, Display and Mobile).

• Assisting clients in integrating Google mobile ads SDK (mobile apps) and IMA SDK (video).

• Verify and debug the SDK implementation and ad serving issues on video players of client’s web pages.

• Verify and debug the ads implementation issues on android and iPhone apps.

• Assist clients in fixing issues related to Google mobile ads SDK and AdMob.

Senior Technical Support Associate

Dell International Services
05.2008 - 07.2010

• Take ownership of complex technical customer issues and provide enhanced support for a product or product line.
• Resolve issues pertaining to virus, 3-rd party software issues.
• Provide technical assistance to team-members by coordinating ownership of support issue escalations for the product or product line.
• Assisted customers from general Operating System issues to complete network provisioning and maintenance.

• Provide coaching and mentoring to less-experienced team-members to assist with progressing issues, troubleshooting and recreating customer issues.
• Increase the awareness of new policies, technology and applications by conveying news of updates and changes to the team.
• Improve product quality by identifying and documenting predominant customer issues which require assessment by the Support Planning Team.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

CVSR College Of Engineering
Hyderabad
05.2004 - 05.2008

Skills

Languages: Python, C, SQL, Windows Batch & Shell Scripting

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT

Databases: MySQL, MongoDB

Version Control Systems: GitLab, Git

IDE: PyCharm, IDLE, VS code

Documentation: Microsoft Office and Confluence

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Figma, Miro

Frameworks: Flask, Django

Advertising platforms: Google Ads, Google Ad Manager, Facebook ads, DV360, Google Campaign Manager

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

Singing, Cricket, Star gazing, Humanism

> Playing cricket is my passion, I go out every weekend to play the game with my friends.

> Astronomy is something that never fails to amaze me, I keep a tab on what space agencies and astronomers are discovering from time to time.

> I'm a proud humanist, and part of a humanist group in Hyderabad. We create awareness among the society on social evils, blind beliefs in superstitions etc.

Timeline

Product Manager

Dunnhumby
04.2023 - Current

Senior Technical Solutions Engineer

dunnhumby
06.2018 - 03.2022

Technical Engineer

Sociomantic
09.2016 - 06.2018

Publisher Account Manager

Venturist Inc (d.b.a AndBeyond.Media)
10.2015 - 09.2016

Support Engineer

HCL Technologies Limited
07.2010 - 10.2015

Senior Technical Support Associate

Dell International Services
05.2008 - 07.2010

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

CVSR College Of Engineering
05.2004 - 05.2008
Damoder ReddyProduct Manager