Rajesh Chandran
Product Leader
Bengaluru
Summary
Customer obsessed leader with strong experience in product strategy, new technology incubation & building high performance teams at Fortune 100.
Launched multiple products including Cloud Insights & Analytics[AI/ML], Intelligent Automation and enterprise applications driving record ARR growth & customer adoption.
Proven ability to partner with Exec leadership, build coalition across functions, translate business priorities into multi-year roadmaps and manage product lifecycle from ideation to launch & scale [0->1 & 1->100].
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head, Product Platform
Twilio
Bengaluru
03.2022 - Current
Lead Product for Twilio Flex, leading Cloud Communications platform. Responsible for developer experience & platform intelligence
• Defined roadmap for 30%+YoY growth using platform AI, first/third party integrations & marketplace.
• Built PM team across EMEA & India. Defined operating model across PM, Engg, design & user research teams.
Head, Data Product & Platform
Cisco Systems
Bengaluru
03.2020 - 03.2022
Lead Data[AI/ML] Product team powering multiple Clouds [Intelligent IT, Automation & SecureIT] for Fortune 500
• Defined multi-year plan and managed ~$7.0M in platform budget . Launched API-consumption model with 300%QoQ usage increase.
• Built global team of Product Mgrs, Engineers & Data technologists that produced patent pending AI/ML applications. Grew team 100%YoY
Head, New Technology CoE
Cisco Systems
bengaluru
11.2015 - 01.2019
Lead Center of Excellence [CoE] team incubating new products & technology for Fortune 100 CxOs on “Predictive IT/AIOps”
• Launched Cloud Analytics-XaaS for predictive IT operations. Onboarded first 100 Ent customers.
Incubated workflow automation platform to improve service agility by 10x. Built stellar team across APJ
Sr Product Manager
Cisco Systems
bengaluru
01.2011 - 01.2015
Lead product team for IaaS/Private Cloud, Datacenter & Virtualization applications. Developed joint GTM partnerships with VMware & NetApp
• Reduced Private Cloud time-to-provision by 50% with self- service catalog & workflow orchestrator
Launched Cloud Compliance-as-a-service [XaaS] targeting financial customers with >90% accuracy rate
Architect
Verizon Communications
bengaluru
01.2002 - 01.2011
Built Verizon's multi-billion-dollar fiber-to-premises [FTTP] infra for quad-play services to 3 million customers. Launched OTT services including VoD, FB & Twitter
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Virginia Tech Univ
M.S - Information Sciences
Ball State Univ
B.E - Electrical Engineering
Madras University
Post Graduate Program - Data Science And Business Analytics
University of Texas, Austin
04.2020 - 02.2022
Skills
B2B, XaaS, PaaS
undefinedTimeline
Head, Product Platform
Twilio
03.2022 - Current
Post Graduate Program - Data Science And Business Analytics
University of Texas, Austin
04.2020 - 02.2022
Head, Data Product & Platform
Cisco Systems
03.2020 - 03.2022
Head, New Technology CoE
Cisco Systems
11.2015 - 01.2019
Sr Product Manager
Cisco Systems
01.2011 - 01.2015
Architect
Verizon Communications
01.2002 - 01.2011
MBA - Business Administration
Virginia Tech Univ
M.S - Information Sciences
Ball State Univ
B.E - Electrical Engineering
Madras University