ABHYUDAY CHAKRAVARTHI
San Francisco,US
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Interim Product Manager
PAYPAL, EBAY
San Jose, CA
01.2011 - 01.2013
- PayPal Here.
- Grew PayPal Here's activation rate by 20% by leading cross-functional team of Engineering, and Onboarding to implement short and long-term product roadmap.
- Product lead for PayPal Here responsive redesign.
- Set overall direction for what was then PayPal Here's largest project to date.
- Post launch, mobile traffic time-on-site doubled, and visitor traffic at non-peak times grew by 15%.
- Established and rolled out better development practices for team in order to improve productivity, including bug triaging, and "no-meeting Tuesdays" Lead User Interface Engineer - PayPal.com.
- Championed for, and helped build a new client template framework across PayPal frontend, and trained APAC and EMEA engineers in its adoption, resulting in better brand alignment of global sites, and increased code release frequency by 50%.
- Led team of eight engineers in Paris and San Jose to entirely rebuild PayPal.com - PayPal's largest site overhaul in last ten years, resulting in an easier and intuitive login, and simplified navigation menus, increasing key engagement metrics.
Senior Software Engineer
NICKELODEON KIDS & FAMILY VIRTUAL WORLDS GROUP
Glendale, CA
01.2008 - 01.2011
- position after first year and subsequently given the responsibility of managing all web development for Nickelodeon's games.
- Executed go-to-market campaigns encompassing house ads that generated over 250,000 clicks per quarter.
- Analyzed data to identify features to A/B test, and pushed out optimization of subscription checkout process, resulting in over 15% annual incremental revenues.
- Integrated a cloud software-as-a-service (SAAS) portal into all Nickelodeon sites, resulting in better customer service for over 40 million global users.
Software Engineer
VIRTUALTOURIST, EXPEDIA
El Segundo, CA
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Built an Open-Social travel app for Friendster, which generated new traffic to TripAdvisor websites, resulting in incremental ad revenue of $150,000 per month.
- Managed advertising campaigns for flight comparison tool - OneTime.com.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
JOHNSON AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Associate -
and Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute
Master of Science - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Skills
- Excel-Advanced, Analytics-SPSS, MS Project, SQL, and Web Technologies
- Personal
- Skied on some of the tallest peaks in the world, including Jungfrau in Swiss Alps
Skills
ad, ads, advertising, com, checkout process, client, customer service, direction, Engineer, features, functional, managing, market, Excel, MS Project, navigation, optimization, peak, product development, San, SPSS, SQL, User Interface, web development, websites
Timeline
Interim Product Manager
PAYPAL, EBAY
01.2011 - 01.2013
Senior Software Engineer
NICKELODEON KIDS & FAMILY VIRTUAL WORLDS GROUP
01.2008 - 01.2011
Software Engineer
VIRTUALTOURIST, EXPEDIA
01.2006 - 01.2008
Master of Business Administration -
JOHNSON AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Associate -
and Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute
Master of Science - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY