Surti Kakkar

Accomplished Product Lead with 11 years of experience driving strategy and execution across HR Tech, enterprise platforms, and cloud products. Skilled in defining product vision, roadmaps, and PRDs, and delivering measurable business outcomes. Proficient in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform) and analytics (SQL, Tableau, Power BI, A/B testing), ensuring adoption, scalability, and compliance. Adept at balancing technical trade-offs with business needs, leading cross-functional teams, and launching products that improve user experience and efficiency.

Generative AI FinOps Dashboard – Cost Optimization & Governance, 2025, Defined problem: AI workloads drive unpredictable cloud spend; leaders need visibility and governance., Conducted discovery interviews with PMs/FinOps leads; wrote PRD, metrics tree, and KPIs., Prototyped dashboard (Streamlit + React) with synthetic data; applied regression and anomaly detection for spend forecasting., Designed governance features (budgets, alerts, tagging) to enforce responsible AI usage., Simulated results: ~30% cost savings, improved budget predictability, stronger financial governance.

• HR Experience Platform (DB Schenker/DSV), Unified Avature, SAP SuccessFactors, and internal portal. Defined roadmap, authored PRDs, and shipped API-led releases that cut onboarding time by 30% and reduced payroll errors by 20%, improving adoption and employee satisfaction.
• Engineering Base Portal (Siemens Energy), Drove modular engineering tools strategy and cloud migration to Azure Kubernetes. Achieved 99.95% uptime, lowered infra costs by 30%, and increased delivery velocity by 25% through roadmap-driven execution.