Sharad's Profound AI Rep
Sharad's path moves from software engineering into global product, partnership, and platform leadership.

Sharad Agarwal
Experience

Product and partnerships function at Transak.

Led a product team of 5 members to own the AgriFood & ClimateTech product verticals as part of Azure GeoSpatial Cloud Platform. - Own the entire AI/ML platform and data pipeline to enable large scale precision farming and climate prediction for different industries - Configurable platform to procure, clean and host models adhering to the nuances (GDPR, Satellite coverage, data localization and hosting, etc.) of different regions across the globe - Part of the strategic deal with climate.com (Bayer Cropsciences) to fast track go to market - Increased the penetration of SAR satellite data sources by furthering the integration with Sentinel satellite constellation (European Space Agency)

Product head to bring investing to Bharat with stocks and digital gold at Paytm, India's largest fintech platform (46 Million Daily Active Users). - Stock Broking: Crafting a new way to invest in stock markets for millennials in a severely under penetrated market. Leading a team of 5 product managers - Conceptualised and launched industry first offerings like 24x7 payins, instant withdrawals/payouts, social stock discovery, live-stream led investment community, etc. to make investments an e-commerce like experience - Worked with industry stakeholders & represented Paytm Money with regulators - Other Investment Products: Product Head for National Pension Scheme & Digital Gold - Investment Community – Building India’s first investment community involving live streaming, chat, etc. where users can learn from experts as well as from each other.

One of the product leads for Intuit's flagship product - QuickBooks. Part of Payments, Banking and Identity product teams. - Payments Platform: Own the payments invoicing and e-payment platform for 126K small and medium businesses - Introduced multiple levers and removed friction points to tap the existing QuickBooks businesses to onboard with our Payments product - Conceptualised new Payments + Accounting bundle resulting in potential revenue upside of ~$4M - Bank Feeds Platform: Integration with financial institutions to increase coverage and adoption of the core Payments product - One Intuit Identity: Worked across various product lines to launch single login across all Intuit products

Led several merchant facing products over the course of my journey at Flipkart, a Walmart company and India's largest e-commerce player. - Merchant Growth: Built various seller facing and internal products/levers to enable merchant growth - Merchant Growth: Conceptualized recommendations & insights product to deliver actionable, in-context recommendations across different areas to merchants - Catalog Management: Devised mechanism to cluster tail products based on buyer browse & sales data to understand catalog depth and do targeted promotional campaigns - Trust & Safety: Methodically penalize sellers for bad performance and malpractices thereby to drive good seller behavior and ultimately increase buyer trust on marketplace
MBA with specialization in Marketing. - Part of business technology club participating in various events conducted in order to create awareness about technology and its application to solve business problems.

Synopsys is world leader in software products catering to global semiconductor companies. - 2 years of working as a product manager doing competitive study, user research, defining product specs and conducting product demos among others. - Conceptualized & delivered industry’s leading standard for Interoperable Designs. This provided customers with a unified platform for their designs, across different EDA vendor products and cut their Time To Market by as much as 25%. - Being close to customer: Spent considerable time with enterprise customers like TSMC (Taiwan), UMC (Taiwan), TowerJazz (Israel) to understand their needs and observe usage of our/competitor products.
Synopsys is world leader in software products catering to global semiconductor companies. - 2.5 years of software product development of a new product in the field of analog design. - Worked on Process Design Kits (PDK's) up till 14 nm node, which acts as lego blocks for building any integrated chip.

Magma is a start-up developing innovative technologies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. - One year of in-depth development of a physical verification product which involved hands-on learning along with exposure to clients across the globe. - Received the quarterly performance award and was promoted within six months of joining the organisation. - Team Lead for all the projects catering to TSMC, the largest foundry in the world. Led a multinational team of five people with team members in Taiwan and Israel. - Performed detailed analysis to improve product performance, and incorporated the same to achieve 3x speedup. This led to winning the benchmark against competition at Qualcomm.