About Sahana
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Enhanced Workday's developer experience & productivity, focusing on its products, services, tools, platform quality and credibility via product management of standard self-service developer and testing platforms, frameworks, environments, data, and governance. Enhanced Workday products' quality via product strategies including industry standards, user & market research, and execution + roll-out strategies. Created & standardized Continuous Integration, Deployment, Testing strategies to enable shift-left. Also, enabled a Workday SKU & its services to go live on FedRamp. Previously, I worked on Workday's performance, resilience, scalability testing platform to enable performance testing shift-left.
At Fidelity, I worked on developer productivity, automation & digitization through product management of an enterprise developer & API platform, to streamline & re-use developer tools, assets, APIs. Proposed and brought enterprise API strategy to life; connected it to other standard repositories for tool types like SDKs. Provided standardization of overall developer productivity via an automation platform. Also strategized externalization of the platform for eligible APIs & external partners.
Specialties/ core competencies
Product Management
o Strategy, vision, roadmap, charter, growth, user outreach
o OKR/ Metrics/ KPI/ goals, program management
o Planning, prioritization, tradeoffs + User research
o Presentation, negotiation, influencing stakeholders, executives
o Idea to solution, design, execution, launch, scaling
o Dealing with ambiguity + Data-driven decision making
o Business/ data/ user/ process/ architecture flows
o Budget, Performance, capacity + process enhancements
SOFT SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS
- Energetic, empathetic, passionate leader, enabler, team player
- Quick learner; strategic, analytical problem-solver; self-inspired
- Networking, communication skills; conflict resolution
- Product & team set-up + Growth, interviewing, onboarding, mentoring
- Thriving in startup/ established culture; Agile/ Waterfall
- Product School’s Product Leader, Product-Led Growth Micro-Certification; Certified Scrum Product Owner; Certified Scrum Master
Other
- Workday: YearUp Giving & Doing - Mentorship & interview skill building
- Fidelity Investments: Diversity & Inclusion org lead, Multiple leadership initiatives + professional societies including Women In Tech
- Hackathon: AI/ Sentiment analysis based stress relief recommendation model prototype
Experience
- Senior Product ManagerOct 2022 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos
- Senior Technical Product ManagerOct 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo
- Director of Product ManagementJul 2021 - Oct 2021 · 4 mos
- Senior Product ManagerJul 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo
- Product Manager
Education
- North Carolina State UniversityMasters, Computer Science2009 - 2011
Activities and societies: - Singer in Avent Ferrum [NCSU Indian music band] - Cultural Secretary of Maitri [Indian Graduate Students Association at NCSU] - Facility Monitor at Carmichael Gymnasium at NCSU
- Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering2004 - 2008
Activities and societies: - Presented technical seminar on the topic “Morphing”- basic concepts, math equations and applications, during final semester - Member of the VRLinug group (a Linux-based group) - Organized technical festival (INT) of department during sophomore, junior and senior years of undergrad - Organized many cultural events during junior and senior year of undergrad
Skills
Other
Business StrategyAnalytical SkillsStrategyAlgorithmsUser ExperienceAgile MethodologiesLeadershipJavaBusiness AnalysisSQLProduct DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentSystems AnalysisScrum
At a glance
Experience9 years
Currently at3 yrs 10 mos
Based inUnited States
Studied atNorth Carolina State University
Roles8
Skills22
LanguagesHindi · English
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