I’m a product manager who started as an embedded software engineer - and that’s what makes me different.
Experience
2025 — 2025
2025 — 2025
San Diego, CA
Interned on the product management team, driving roadmap strategy and data-driven decision making for Qualcomm’s platform tools.
• Conducted user research and competitive analysis across 7 cross-functional teams to address gaps in the 2026 product
roadmap, presented findings to senior leadership, and contributed to the roadmap by prioritizing 65% of critical feature gaps.
• Designed Python-based AI agents to automate validation of 1,000+ requirements by cross-referencing customer specs with
internal capabilities, eliminating 60% of manual quotation analysis through an AI-driven validation system.
• Built ML-powered analytics pipelines and dashboards to analyze 10,000+ data points, uncovered 3 user behavior patterns, and drove prioritization of 2 features into the product roadmap.
2022 — 2024
Pune District
Led product strategy and execution for automotive and connected platforms at Bosch, managing a 28-engineer cross-functional team across firmware, middleware, and application layers.
• Spearheaded 0-to-1 delivery of a next-gen braking system for a 650K+ unit truck program, defining requirements that balanced
real-time performance, memory, and reliability, and shipping production-ready embedded software across 2 ECU variants.
• Aligned 5 senior stakeholders on scope across 3 releases by authoring PRDs and OKRs that clarified trade-offs between
timeline, cost, and quality, delivering 100% on-time with zero critical defects.
• Mitigated $350K in annual risk by leading implementation of CI/CD pipelines and live KPI dashboards, reducing defect rate by
43% and lowering resolution time by 30%.
• Introduced data-driven prioritization using defect trends, cycle time, and feature completion metrics for a 28-engineer team,
increasing release velocity by 42% and sprint predictability to 93%.
Domain: Automotive platforms, embedded systems, safety-critical products, enterprise software
2019 — 2022
Greater Bengaluru Area
Held a dual product management and software engineering role, owning the product roadmap for automotive software platforms while contributing hands-on to development and architecture decisions.
• Authored platform API specifications and technical reference documentation for 5 external partners, enabling them to integrate
independently and reducing partner support overhead by 30%.
• Identified bottlenecks in manual regression testing, environment provisioning, and cross-team handoff delays through discovery
research, and championed automated testing pipelines, accelerating release cycles by 35% from 12 weeks down to 8 weeks.
• Defined detailed PRDs outlining engineering trade-offs across system constraints, safety requirements, and partner experience,
delivering 6 consecutive releases with zero scope creep and 100% on-time delivery.
• Redesigned partner onboarding guides based on user journey mapping and usage analytics, and presented adoption metrics
and recommendations to VP stakeholders, improving feature adoption by 25%.
Domain: Automotive software platforms, vehicle connectivity, safety systems, platform APIs
2016 — 2019
2016 — 2019
Bangalore
Developed low-level device drivers and firmware in Embedded C for automotive ECU platforms, working across hardware, firmware, and validation teams.
• Developed low-level device drivers and firmware in Embedded C, collaborating with hardware teams on integration
specifications and validation criteria to deliver production-ready modules adopted across 3 vehicle programs.
• Led root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and validation teams to diagnose critical system integration failures,
resolving issues 40% faster than historical average and eliminating post-release defects.
This role built my technical foundation in embedded systems and automotive software - the engineering depth that now makes me a stronger product manager.
2016 — 2019
2016 — 2019
Bangalore
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
Master's degree
B V B College of Engg. & Technology, HUBLI