Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Timeline
Generic

Sharath Babu

Product Lead
Bengaluru

Summary

Product Manager with 10+ years of experience leading product strategy, roadmap, and execution in data-driven environments. Proven track record in reducing costs, improving product performance, and scaling teams. Skilled in SQL, Python, R, and agile methodologies. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product success.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Product Lead

e6data
Bengaluru
3 2023 - Current
  • Led product charter for world's fastest cloud-hosted query engine and lakehouse platform with team of 15 engineers. Built MVP of product and managed first 5 POCs with customers.
  • Defined product strategy, roadmap, and drove execution across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams, resulting in 20% increase in team productivity.

Senior Product Manager

Bukuwarung
Bengaluru
01.2022 - 03.2023
  • Reduced BigQuery cloud cost bills by 70% by adopting the medallion architecture. Built a self-serve reporting platform integrated into 2 out of 6 product lines.
  • Onboarded a new vendor for automated fraud detection and improved precision of the in-house model to catch non-compliant or fraudulent KYC without affecting the conversion rate of the onboarding funnel.

Product Manager II

Razorpay
Bengaluru
10.2020 - 11.2021
  • Defined the roadmap for the entire organization to move from a data warehouse setup (HP vertical) to a data lakehouse setup (Hudi/Delta + Hive Catalog + Trino & Looker).
  • Onboarded 6 new services onto the data platform via an in-house built automated ETL tool that extracted data from application databases to the data lake. Built the medallion architecture for business reporting, improving customer-facing reports SLA by 70%.
  • Negotiated multiple-year contracts with BI tools and data platform vendors, helping manage costs and improve user experience.

Product Analytics Lead

Razorpay
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 09.2020
  • Built the product analytics function from the ground up, scaling the team to 15 analysts, resulting in enhanced data-driven decision-making across the company.
  • Developed a cross-sell engine resulting in a 5% conversion uplift, smart routing with a 2% transaction success uplift, and risk profiling tools.
  • Created a merchant risk profiling engine to identify non-creditworthy merchants for lending, achieving a true positive rate of 80%, enhancing risk management.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

VTU
Bengaluru, India
09.2009 - 05.2013

Skills

Product Strategy & Roadmapping

Cross-functional Leadership

Data Analysis

Agile Methodologies

SQL, Python, R

Product positioning

Stakeholder Management

Languages

English
Kannada
Hindi

Timeline

Senior Product Manager

Bukuwarung
01.2022 - 03.2023

Product Manager II

Razorpay
10.2020 - 11.2021

Product Analytics Lead

Razorpay
01.2018 - 09.2020

Bachelor of Engineering -

VTU
09.2009 - 05.2013

Product Lead

e6data
3 2023 - Current
Sharath BabuProduct Lead