Shridhar Karandikar
Product Agility Strategist
Pune,MH
Summary
- Dynamic professional with over 30 years of cross-functional experience specializing in business agility coaching and enterprise data product strategy.
- Proven track record in IT development and product management complemented by expertise in finance, equity research, and consulting.
- Recognized for fostering team collaboration and adapting to dynamic environments, consistently driving impactful outcomes while ensuring client satisfaction.
- Committed to sustainable practices through dedicated community volunteer work in river and water resource conservation
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Consultant - for Agility in Product Workstreams
PragyaWorks
12.2024 - Current
- Aurigraph.io - Vibe Coding based React PWA app development (Jul -2025 Tilldate)
- Excelle AI based Product Company for democratization of BMI
- Vallntell – Enterprise Business Intelligence product development and GTM strategy
- Value Mathan 360 Platform Product Strategy
Product Manager
Zenworks
06.2024 - 11.2024
- Product Manager for MyTri App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myelin.Mytri&hl=en_IN)
- Own the product vision, value statement and a Product Roadmap
- Coordinate with engineering to get DevOps pipeline alignment to roadmap
- Manage User Experience, User Survey and Studies
- UXD Vendor Management
- Social Media Marketing Owner
- Ed Tech App , serving underserved educational entities, mainly Municipal Schools / ZP Schools and Affordable Private school teachers
Agile Coaching, Training and Consulting
PragyaWorks
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Team Building Workshops
- Mentoring and Consulting Counseling Workshops and Training Sessions
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
External Agile Coach
Rockwell Automation
04.2023 - 07.2023
- Product Lifecycle Compliance and Process Adherence
- SAFe training, Agility Assessment
- Providing Mentorship and guidance to internal teams
- Supporting Three Teams of Technical Products and Platforms
Agile Coach
Petroleum Development Oman
11.2022 - 03.2023
- Building training capability in internal Agile CI coaches
- Providing Mentorship and guidance to internal teams
- Supporting front runner 15 projects
- Apply SAFe Program Essential format to Opportunity Maturation Process
- Assignments through Six Sigma Alchemy International, Muscat
- Provided coaching and mentoring to employees.
Coach / Consultant
PragyaWorks
04.2021 - 11.2022
- Freelance Consulting for Agile Product Development Team Coaching using principles of #conscious_agility
- Assignments at We Agile , InviGrid, Zenworks for Myelin
Principal Engineering Manager | Program Manager | Product Owner | Agile Coach
Persistent Systems Limited
08.2015 - 03.2021
- Nov 2020 – Mar 2021 : 3rd party Wealth Management Platform – Customer Implementations (Bambu)
- Aug 2020 – Oct 2020 : Staffing process optimization
- Oct 2019 – May 2020 : Agile Coach for Clinical Genomics Solution Provider, Product Development of Two Outsource Components (PierianDx)
- May 2019 – Sep 2019 : Internal Company Work :- CSV , Pharma Compliances Study
- Nov 2017 – Apr 2019 : Product Owner - Healthcare Insurance Claim Processing Product(HealthEdge)
- May 2017 – Aug 2017 : Green Field Platform for Automation of OEM Card Business - Project Management, Staffing , Agile Coaching, Customer Management
- April-2016 – March 2017 : IBM IOT – CLM, Product management of IBM Track & Plan, CLM Professional Services
- August-2015 – March 2016: Government Defense and Aviation Group, Product management of Smart City Data Platform , UX Design strategy definition, Roadmap and Iteration planning , Sales Collaterals , Customer Sales Pitches
Technical Product Manager
Infosys Technologies Limited
01.2012 - 08.2015
- Jan-2015 to August 2015 : Infosys Labs – Enterprise Security / Internet of Things, Identification and conceptualization of PoC / Use Cases for Password-less Authentication, FIDO alliance, Smart City / Communities IoT
- May 2014 to Dec 2014 : Enterprise Mobility Unit – Anchoring - Cable Accounts 3, Team of 25 members, iOS / Android App Development, Supervising Service Master - PhoneGap Hybrid Apps Development
- Oct 2013 to May 2014 : Support Manager - Infosys Business Platforms – TradeEdge – Hosted MS Dynamic AX solution
- Jan 2012 to Sep 2013 : Product Manager ISCRS - Infosys Sustainability Compliance and Reporting Solution, Lead Team Concept and Engineering Team in initiation, Involved in Product Strategy, Roadmap and Marketing Plans (~50 member team) Domain Area: Sustainability Reporting, GRI 3.1/4.0
Senior Manager, Development Head of Finesse MBS
Kale Consultants (Now Accelya Solutions India)
01.2010 - 10.2011
- Airline and Travel Domain specific Product Development Company, with strategic Managed Process Service Offerings
- Product Manager, Development & Implementation Lead.
- Lead Team development of POC for RFP in a short span of 1 month, Used Redmine to execute the Agile Development
- Lead team of 18 Developers, Business Analysts and Testers Domain: Airline Miscellaneous Billing, IATA Billing /Settlement
Product / IP Evangelist for IProwe
Infosys Technologies Limited
08.1999 - 01.2010
- Dec 2008 – Jan 2010 : Product Manager (Setlabs). Recipient of Infosys Excellence Award for innovation (Patent Filed US20130254667 A1), iProwe Product Manager involved in definition & execution of process framework for research based product development apart from managing product development process. Associate Area: Web 2.0, Web Accessibility, Lean, Agile
- May 2008 – Nov 2008 : Technical Evangelist (Setlabs) , Worked with J2EE-COE, Knowledge Engineering Group. Semantic Web, RDF / OWL, Master Data Management (MDM), Business Process Management (BPM)
- Mar 2007 – Apr 2008 : Project Manager, Wachovia Account at Pune Development Center. Project Manager/ Offshore Project Manager for Software Team of 15 members for development & testing of Challenging Technology of Smalltalk across Pune, Hyderabad and Charlotte. Accountable for offshore delivery, CMM processes, team management, knowledge management initiatives, staffing, training and planning
- Mar 2007 - Apr 2008 : Program Management Office - Delivery Anchor in Business Consulting engagement, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank Initiation of a trading platform migration program
- Jul 2005 – Feb 2007 : Project Manager, Information Risk Audit Support, Pre-Sales Anchor, JP Morgan Chase Account (BCM), PMO – Role for Trade Router Application
- May 2006 – Dec 2003 @Richmond USA, Onsite Coordinator, Technical Designer- CapitalOne
- Mar 2003 – Nov 2003 @Washington DC, USA, Onsite Coordinator - Verizon
- Aug 2002 – Feb 2003 @Pittsburg, USA. Application Development Project of EBPP Systems for Mellon Bank in North East USA
- Dec 2001 - Jul 2002 : @Pune, Evaluation J2EE Application servers with special focus on iPlanet Application Server
- Jan 2001 – Nov 2001 @San Jose, USA. Ariba Buyer European Implementation Cisco Inc, San Jose, California
- Nov 2000 – May 2001 @ Hartford, USA, Integration of Ariba Buyer with Oracle Application Back End ERP system for Aetna Inc
- Nov 1999 – Oct 2000 @Bengaluru / Irvine USA Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc.; Software Engineer - ERP Implementation / Customization Developer (ES Group), Making Allocation of Pipeline and Future Inventory in Oracle Applications
Education
BE - Pulp and Paper Engineering
IIT Roorkee
India01.1994
Skills
Team Building / Team collaboration
Agile Methods : TWI, Lean, TPS, System Thinking, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
Tools : Visual Studio Code (Augment / Claude) , JIRA, Confluence, Redmine, TeamWiki, IBM Jazz ELM
Operating Systems: Ubuntu, RedHat, Unix, Win NT/2000/XP
Databases: Oracle 7/8/9i/10g/11g, SQL Server 65/2000, DB2, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB
GIS: Google Maps/Earth, Lat/long
Certification
International Certification in Product Management, 2021
Highlights
- Product Management – Education Tech | Web Accessibility | Airline Billing | Sustainability | CLM | HealthCare Insurance
- Lean Agile Coaching / Consulting / Training – in Persistent / PragyaWork – Tools for Product Features and Roadmap
- Engineering Head of Sustainability Reporting Data Management Solution in Infosys
- Product and Data Architect. - Airline Billing Contract management, Design Developed the Data Mart in Kale Consultancy
- Product Manager – Web Accessibility Assessment Tool – Infosys (Patent Filed US20130254667 A1)
- Account Manager Infosys – Building and Managing Offshore projects, Information Security Audits for customers
Other Experience
- EDP Anchor, System Analyst, Marine Management Systems Pvt. Ltd, E2E Financial Accounting System, Corporate website development, Vendor Management Dec 1998 – Jul 1999
- Programmer/ Event Manager, Activa Consultants, Nov 1997 – Nov 1998
- Equity Analyst, K R Choksey Shares & Securities (Stock Brokerage), Jan 1997 – Oct 1997
- Process Engineer, Ballarpur Industries Ltd., Jun 1994 – Apr 1995
Timeline
Consultant - for Agility in Product Workstreams
PragyaWorks
12.2024 - Current
Product Manager
Zenworks
06.2024 - 11.2024
Agile Coaching, Training and Consulting
PragyaWorks
08.2023 - 05.2024
External Agile Coach
Rockwell Automation
04.2023 - 07.2023
Agile Coach
Petroleum Development Oman
11.2022 - 03.2023
Coach / Consultant
PragyaWorks
04.2021 - 11.2022
Principal Engineering Manager | Program Manager | Product Owner | Agile Coach
Persistent Systems Limited
08.2015 - 03.2021
Technical Product Manager
Infosys Technologies Limited
01.2012 - 08.2015
Senior Manager, Development Head of Finesse MBS
Kale Consultants (Now Accelya Solutions India)
01.2010 - 10.2011
Product / IP Evangelist for IProwe
Infosys Technologies Limited
08.1999 - 01.2010
BE - Pulp and Paper Engineering
IIT Roorkee