Product Manager · Hyderabad, India

Yaswanth
Gummadi

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AI Product Manager 🚀 Launch & Scale Specialist

"Product Excellence is where Data meets Desire through Innovation"

⚡ User-Centric 📊 Data-Driven 🎯 Detail-Oriented 🧩 Systems Thinker 📈 Growth-Focused
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Yaswanth Gummadi
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0→1
Product
Launch
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1→∞
Growth &
Scale
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10+
Years of
Experience
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8
Industries
Mastered
🤖
AI-First
Product
Approach
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Years of Experience
2015 → Present
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Industry Domains
Across 3 continents
Banking & Financial Services Healthcare Pharmaceuticals HR-Tech ERP & Supply Chain Customer Relationship Management (CRM) B2B SaaS Sustainability & Waste Management B2B E-Commerce Payments Customer Engagement Credit Cards Banking & Financial Services Healthcare Pharmaceuticals HR-Tech ERP & Supply Chain Customer Relationship Management (CRM) B2B SaaS Sustainability & Waste Management B2B E-Commerce Payments Customer Engagement Credit Cards
About Me

Precision
Meets Purpose

I didn't start as a Product Manager — I earned the title. My career began writing production code as a full-stack developer, evolved through enterprise consulting, and sharpened into product leadership across 12 industries on three continents.

That journey gives me something most PMs don't have: I can read a technical spec, challenge an architecture decision, and translate both into a roadmap a business stakeholder trusts — all in the same conversation. I don't just manage products. I engineer outcomes.

Every problem I take on gets the precision of an analyst, the empathy of a user advocate, and the urgency of someone who ships. Every metric I drive, every feature I launch, every stakeholder I align — all in service of one goal: products that genuinely transform lives.

🎯
User-Centric
Every decision anchored in user needs & real-world impact
📊
Data-Driven
Metrics-first thinking with SQL, BI tools & analytics
⚙️
Detail-Oriented
No edge case missed — thoroughness is a competitive advantage
🚀
Growth Mindset
Aggressive learner who thrives in complexity and ambiguity
🗣️
Communication
The foundation of product leadership
Translating complexity into clarity — from engineering standups to C-suite roadmaps, every stakeholder aligned, every message landing with precision.
Professional Journey

Impact at Scale

A decade of shipping products that move metrics — across 12 industries, multiple continents, and thousands of end users.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

IT Services · Consulting ★ Current Employer

Product Manager — Digital Experience (DX)

Feb 2024 – Present · Hyderabad, India

Clients: JPMC Novartis US Bank

JPMorgan Chase (JPMC)

Banking · Premium ● Current Engagement

Product Manager — Lifestyle & Premium Banking Apps

2025 – Present · Confidential Project

  • Building lifestyle applications for premium credit card users — delivering curated experiences that elevate the value proposition of JPMC's premium banking portfolio
  • Further details withheld per client confidentiality agreement

Novartis Pharma AG

Pharma Supply Chain

Product Manager — RLT Supply Chain Platform (3AGest2)

2025 · Client Engagement

4x
Production Capacity
250K → 1M doses/yr
6
New Sites Onboarded
Europe & Asia expansion
3
Continents Covered
Americas · Europe · Asia
  • Built 3AGest2 — a mission-critical supply chain platform for radioligand therapy (RLT) cancer drugs, scaling production 4x from 250,000 to 1 million doses per year
  • Expanded from 2 US sites (Indianapolis & New Jersey) to a global network across Europe (Ivrea, Italy · Zaragoza, Spain · Holland) and Asia (Haiyan, China · Sasayama, Japan)
  • Centralized ordering, planning, and fulfillment of time-sensitive life-saving medicines across a worldwide, 3-continent distribution network

US Bank

Banking

Product Manager — Customer Engagement Platform

Feb 2024 · Client Engagement

69%
Customer Satisfaction
↑ from 54%
3x
Component Reusability
Express Consent API
∞
Business Lines Unified
Single customer view
  • Led the Unified Customer View — consolidating customer profiles across multiple business lines into a single, coherent data layer
  • Integrated and streamlined Profile & Customer Preferences systems, lifting CSAT from 54% to 69%
  • Developed Express Consent API in response to TCPA regulatory changes, ensuring compliance and tripling component reusability across teams

Recykal

Sustainability · CleanTech ★ Highest Growth Impact

Product Manager — Waste E-Commerce

Jun 2022 – Feb 2024 · Hyderabad, India

💡

India's waste industry was almost entirely informal and tech-averse. Achieving 100% app adoption across all transacting buyers and sellers wasn't just a metric — it was a market-wide behavioral shift, engineered through product and enforced through business.

750%
Revenue Growth
₹100 Cr → ₹750 Cr
100%
Net Margin Growth
0.75% → 1.5%
70%
DSO Reduction
120 days → 40 days
30%
Seller Churn Reduction
50%
Fulfillment Time ↓
70%
Debit Notes ↓
QA Module
90%
Support Tickets ↓
Self-serve via Retool
100%
Order Traceability
Live Truck Tracking
  • Owned India's first and only waste e-commerce marketplace end-to-end — buyer & seller mobile apps and an internal transaction portal, driving digitization across a traditionally offline, unorganized industry
  • Achieved 100% mobile app adoption across all transacting buyers and sellers — a landmark feat in an industry historically resistant to digitization
  • Ideated and shipped a full suite of marketplace features: KYC onboarding, Live Truck Tracking, Supply-Demand mapping, Seller & Buyer Engagement, Seller Compliance, Payments & Receivables management, and a comprehensive Quality Assurance module
  • Reduced DSO from 120 to 40 days through streamlined Payments & Receivables workflows; cut debit notes 70% via QA module; eliminated support bottlenecks with self-serve Retool tooling (90% ticket reduction)
  • Launched M3 version of Recykal Marketplace — extending reach further down the value chain, generating ₹10 Cr in year one with seamless integration into the core platform
  • Integrated Metabase BI dashboards, CleverTap, and UXCam for continuous business performance and user behaviour tracking; led cross-functional teams (Business, Engineering & Design) through agile delivery

Oorwin

HR Tech · AI ★ AI Startup of India Award 2022

Product Manager — AI-Powered Staffing & Recruitment (ATS & CRM)

Mar 2021 – May 2022 · Hyderabad, India

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My first PM role — where I learnt the craft from zero. We were building AI-powered recruitment products before ChatGPT made AI mainstream. Semantic search, job-candidate matching, resume harvesting from the web — shipped and in production in 2021.

10x
Recruiter Productivity
via Talent CRM
70%
Time-to-Hire ↓
AI-powered ATS
60%
Cost-to-Hire ↓
AI-powered ATS
80%
Customer Reactivation
Real-time dashboards & custom reporting
65%
BI Tool Cost ↓
$35K → $12K/yr
🏆 2022
AI Startup of India
Recruiting Domain
  • Ideated, validated, designed, and launched Oorwin Talent CRM from the ground up — a recruitment & staffing sales platform that delivered 10x productivity gains for recruiters
  • Built AI-powered capabilities before the Gen-AI era: job-candidate semantic matching, AI resume & job harvesting from major job boards, keyword & semantic search, and similar-candidate recommendations — rebranding Oorwin as an AI-powered Talent Acquisition & Management platform
  • Implemented ATS features — interview management, resume parsing, and semantic search — reducing time-to-hire by 70% and cost-to-hire by 60%
  • Revamped BI Dashboards & Reporting across the full Oorwin product suite; introduced real-time custom reports, cutting BI partner costs from $35K to $12K (65%) and reactivating 80% of churned customers
  • Company was awarded AI Startup of India 2022 in the Recruiting domain — recognition driven directly by the AI product capabilities shipped during this tenure

ZoomRx

Pharma Consulting Market Research

Associate Consultant — Pharma Market Research & Strategy

Mar 2020 – Jan 2021 · Chennai, India

$1M
Engagements Value
10% of company revenue
6+
Fortune 500 Clients
Merck · Gilead · AbbVie · J&J
5+
Disease Areas
HIV · MS · MM · Autism · COVID
  • Led multiple simultaneous high-velocity consulting engagements for Fortune 500 pharma clients — Merck, Gilead, Takeda, AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Amgen and others — totalling ~$1M in value, representing 10% of company revenue
  • Conducted primary market research across HIV, Multiple Sclerosis, Multiple Myeloma, Autism, and COVID — delivering actionable insights that helped clients sharpen drug commercialization strategies, improve messaging effectiveness, gain market share, and strengthen brand perception
  • Owned end-to-end project planning across all engagements — employee staffing, time estimation, client coordination, and on-time delivery
  • Ideated and launched Synapse — an internal SQL & Excel-based automated survey tool enabling seamless real-time coordination between consulting and community teams, with automated base analyses by question type, eliminating manual bottlenecks across the HCP survey workflow

Virtusa

IT Services · Consulting

Associate Consultant — FinTech & Healthcare Analytics

Jun 2018 – Feb 2020 · Chennai, India

Clients: Citibank IBM

IBM

Healthcare Analytics · AI

IBM Flexible Analytics — AI-Based Healthcare Analytics

2019 – 2021 · Client Engagement

1M+
Patient Records
100GB+ datasets
100K+
Cases / Month
Care Mgmt module
30
Patient Cohorts
Disease Staging
20%
Classification Accuracy ↑
Population segmentation
  • Led development of Virtusa Healthcare Analytics for payors — processing 1M+ patient records and 100GB+ claims datasets; built the Care Management module supporting 1,000+ care managers and 100K+ cases/month
  • Led development & business analysis of Disease Staging & Population Classification modules on IBM Flexible Analytics — improving classification accuracy by ~20% across 30 patient cohorts

Citibank

Payments · FinTech

Citi Connect Platform — International Corporate Payments

2018 – 2019 · Client Engagement

1M+
Transactions / Day
Cross-border flows
2.5x
Throughput Gain
Java migration
250+
Business Rules
SWIFT · SEPA · FX
45%
Batch Time ↓
Abinitio → Java
  • Led transformation & automation of Citi Connect — supporting 1M+ transactions/day across domestic and cross-border flows; migrated legacy Ab Initio ETL to Java, achieving 2.5x throughput and 45% reduction in batch processing time
  • Automated XML batch file processing handling 10K+ files/day, cutting manual intervention by ~60%; consolidated 250+ business rules (SWIFT, SEPA, FX, supply chain) into a unified XML schema with 200+ fields per transaction

Ramco Systems

ERP · SaaS Full Stack ★ Career Start

Programmer Analyst — Full Stack Web Developer

Jan 2015 – May 2016 · Chennai, India

  • Built a Server Monitoring & Alert Application end-to-end on ASP.NET — HTML/CSS front-end, C# application layer, and MS SQL Server back-end — used by Ramco's Cloud, Infrastructure & Security (CIS) team
  • Achieved 99.98% server uptime for cross-geographical clients, enabling a seamless and trustworthy experience across Ramco's global customer base
  • Authored custom SQL scripts to help enterprise clients tailor Ramco ERP workflows and business rules to their specific operational needs
  • Deployed Ramco ERP onto cloud and on-premise servers; handled configuration and onboarding of new clients onto the platform
Capabilities

Toolkit & Expertise

Product Management
Product Strategy Roadmapping User Research Design Thinking Agile / Scrum OKRs & KPIs Stakeholder Management Go-To-Market Product-Led Growth A/B Testing
Data & Analytics
SQL Business Intelligence Metabase CleverTap Data Storytelling Funnel Analysis Cohort Analysis Metrics Frameworks Predictive Analytics
Design & Productivity Tools
Figma Adobe XD Wireframing Prototyping JIRA Confluence Miro Google Suite Microsoft Suite
Domain Expertise
Banking & FinTech Pharma Supply Chain Healthcare Analytics Sustainability / CleanTech HR Technology Market Research Enterprise ERP AI / ML Products B2B SaaS B2C Marketplaces
AI Skills & Tools
Active Practitioner
NLP LLM GPT Claude Code Lovable Vercel RAG MCP
Academic Background

Built on Rigour

T.A. Pai Management Institute

Manipal, Karnataka

MBA — Finance & Analytics
2016 – 2018
Finance Analytics Strategy Management

BITS Pilani

Hyderabad Campus

MSc Technology — Information Systems
2010 – 2015
Information Systems Computer Science Technology
Licenses & Certifications

Credentials & Continuous Learning

Certified SAFe® Agile Product Management (APM)
Scaled Agile, Inc. · Jun 2025
PM Certification
Certified SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)
Scaled Agile, Inc. · Jun 2024
PM Certification
Generative AI for Managerial Excellence
Microsoft · 2024
AI Certification
Executive Certificate in Product Management
Indian School of Business · Jun 2022
★ Prestigious
Business Analytics
Confederation of Indian Industry · Sep 2021
Data · Analytics
IBM Data Science Professional
IBM · Nov 2019
Data Science · AI
Certified Scrum Master
Virtusa · Oct 2018
Agile · Scrum
Credit Analyst
Udemy · Nov 2018
Finance · Banking
Content & Copy Writing Pro
MyCaptain · Oct 2023
Writing · Communication
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Published Work

Beyond the Resume

Reflections of Life — Yaswanth Gummadi

Reflections of Life

✦ Published 2023 Poetry · Contemporary

By Yaswanth Gummadi  ·  ISBN 9789358735314

"Reflections of Life" invites readers on an introspective journey through the intricate landscapes of contemporary existence — exploring relationships, the dance of technology, the whispers of nature, and the quest for balance in the midst of chaos.

A testament to the timeless art of poetry, offering a sanctuary for introspection and contemplation in the fast-paced world we inhabit.