Entrepreneur at heart, passionate about building beautiful products that solve meaningful problems and have giant impact.
8+ years of experience at Twitter and Microsoft in the Growth, Search & Local domains.
Set vision & strategy, led scrappy and cross-functional teams to ship and have big impact. Worked across the product lifecycle, from conceptualizing & shipping v1 products
Entrepreneur at heart, passionate about building beautiful products that solve meaningful problems and have giant impact.
8+ years of experience at Twitter and Microsoft in the Growth, Search & Local domains.
Set vision & strategy, led scrappy and cross-functional teams to ship and have big impact. Worked across the product lifecycle, from conceptualizing & shipping v1 products to scaling mature ones.
Senior Product Manager @ From August 2015 to Present (4 months) Product Manager (Growth) @ I've built products across the growth funnel, from activation to retention and virality, and also on international growth. Previously worked on making core product changes to the tweet anatomy & home timeline and launching new products like Events.
Some previous projects
* New user onboarding: Built Instant Timelines which broke reliance on the follow-model and automatically surfaced the best content for users by using implicit and explicit signals.
(http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/twitter-displays-its-value-with-instant-timeline-for-new-users/).
* Social graph: Built people discovery on mobile apps to connect new and at-risk users with their friends and interests which increased engagement and retention. Rebuilt our Addressbook system to drive more connections and support Friend finding for Fabric Sdk (https://twitter.com/digits/status/572827576265252864)
* Tweet anatomy: Launched changes like Fav/RT counts on home timeline to drive engagement and Quote Tweet to increase expression (https://twitter.com/twitter/status/585225218093932544, https://twitter.com/twittermobile/status/430829594904514560)
* Virality: Built a scalable virality system which led to many thousands of invited signups / day
* Shipped first Events experience which helped users find value in Twitter immediately by surfacing relevant content about events they're interested in like the Olympics (http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/spotlight-on-olympic-stories.html). Now expanded to support events like the soccer & cricket world cups, etc.
* Developed & shipped internal tools and performed data analysis From January 2012 to August 2015 (3 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProgram Manager II (Bing) @ Search personalization:
* Led an effort to use social data and user history signals that led to over 25% increase in targeted relevance metrics.
* Drove a large cross group engineering team to create a simple and agile online experimentation framework for testing personalization signals which are hard to measure offline.
Local Search:
* Led a cross group team to improve restaurant query experience across Bing.
* Shipped UX and relevance improvements that led to multi-point increase in user engagement and relevance metrics.
* Performed query log analysis and competitive analysis to prioritize query segments.
* Prototyped tools to expedite collection of human labeled data for training ML models. From October 2009 to December 2011 (2 years 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaProgram Manager II (Windows) @ * Defined and shipped core telemetry features for Windows 7 (client & server) and invented a technique to reduce notifications noise.
* Shipped features for Windows Error Reporting (web server, content management system, content quality, UX) that led to double digit increase in user satisfaction, more than doubled throughput and decreased operational costs.
* Wrote scripts to manage a 10x increase in content volume before tools were shipped.
* Awarded a Gold Star for exceptional performance. From October 2006 to September 2009 (3 years) Greater Seattle AreaProgram Manager Intern @ From June 2005 to August 2005 (3 months) Greater Seattle AreaBusiness Analyst Intern @ From June 2004 to August 2004 (3 months) Greater New York City AreaUndergraduate research assistant @ From February 2002 to March 2004 (2 years 2 months) Austin, Texas Area
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Turing Scholars) and Math (Deans Scholars) @ The University of Texas at Austin From 2002 to 2006 St. James School, Calcutta
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