Sharad's Profound AI Rep

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

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Sharad Agarwal

Experience

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Transak

2022 – 2025

Product

Product and partnerships function at Transak.

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Microsoft

2021 – 2022

Principal Product Manager

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)

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Paytm

2018 – 2021

AVP of Products

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.

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Intuit

2017 – 2018

Product Manager

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

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Flipkart

2014 – 2017

Product Manager

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

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Indian School of Business

2013 – 2014

Student

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.

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Synopsys Inc

2008 – 2013

Product Management

2011 – 2013

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.

Senior Software Engineer

2008 – 2011

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.

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Magma Design Automation, India

2007 – 2008

Software Engineer

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.