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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

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Timeline

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
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