Anand Paka

Product | Google, Reddit, Amazon

United States

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Hands-on product lead with full-stack experience in platforms, engineering, and Mobile & Web Apps at FAANG companies. Conversant in New Product Development, Product Led Growth (PLG), and general management. Currently rapid prototyping using AI Code Gen (Cursor, OpenAI, Gemini) for content understanding using daily UGC content (e.g. Reddit) and lightweight web games.

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Experience (14 roles)

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First Round Fast Track

Sep 2023 - Dec 2023 · 4 mos·San Francisco, California, United States

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Personal sabbatical

· Self-employed

2023 - 2024 · 1 yr

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Head of Product, Consumer

Handshake · Full-time

Jun 2022 - Apr 2023 · 11 mos·Hybrid

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Education (3)

MIT Sloan School of Management

2008 - 2010

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Skills (22)

Agile MethodologiesStrategyStart-upsSoftware DesignAndroidGo-to-market StrategyDistributed SystemsUser ExperienceAWSCloudSaaSEntrepreneurshipAgile Project ManagementMobile DevicesAnalyticsIntegrationScrumCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareProduct ManagementC++Software Development