Achal Gupta
Hyderabad
Summary
Highly accomplished and results-driven Product Manager with 18 years of experience in building and scaling 0-1 consumer products. Proven expertise in AI/ML, web, and mobile product development, with a strong track record of leading cross-functional teams, driving business strategy, and exceeding user expectations.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder
Recozilla
04.2022 - Current
- Building a new social platform tailored for GenZ in India
- Making it mindful, bully-free, guilt-free and community driven.
- Built a strong team from scratch and leading Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Design & Content
Principal PM Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
01.2021 - 03.2022
- Led a team of rockstar Product Managers for Microsoft AI & Search spearheading Knowledge Graph and Travel verticals.
- Revamped user experience and expanded data coverage of Knowledge Graph to 100’s of millions of entities with a DAU of >50 million users in over100+ countries and 50+ languages.
- Developed Travel vertical from scratch and helped grow Travel’s DAU by over 400%.
Senior Lead Product Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
01.2020 - 12.2020
- Led Product Management team for Knowledge Graph vertical in Microsoft AI & Search
- Extensively improved data coverage for structured, semi-structured and un-structured data entities
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2019
- Led product management for Search segments of Events, Trivia, Predictions and Movie Showtimes.
- Released multiple new versions improving query coverage and user engagement manyfold
Product Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
09.2011 - 06.2017
- Led AI & Machine Learning model development for query classification, entity extraction, and intent identification across multiple segments of Bing Search such as Movies, Images, Videos, Events, Cricket, Rugby, Oscars, Tennis, Knowledge Graph, Travel, as well as Edge Browser and Cortana.
- Significantly enhanced triggering precision and recall for these segments
Product Manager
Apalya Technologies
05.2011 - 09.2011
- Worked on Apalya’s first ‘Direct to Consumer’ video product
- Handled specification writing, design, marketing and vendor management for the same
- Partnered with Sony Entertainment, Disney Star, History Channel, UTV, National Geographic and various other TV channels in India to enter into content and revenue sharing agreements
Software Test Lead
Mozy Inc
01.2010 - 04.2010
- Led Application Framework, Data Replication, Mozy Mobile and Quick Response teams delivering multiple releases in a short span of few months
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Mozy Inc
01.2009 - 12.2009
- Led ‘Quick Response Team’ of Senior and Lead engineers which improved customer satisfaction metrics by 30%.
- Led Security, Performance and Scalability testing for multiple features
Software Engineer in Test
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
06.2007 - 12.2008
- Optimized Authentication Server of ‘Pi’ and made it scalable from 10 thousand users to 1 million users
- Designed conflict resolution algorithm for data replication between multiple object-oriented databases
Software Design Engineer in Test
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
06.2005 - 05.2007
- Led test efforts for ‘Project Creation’ and Internet Classes of MFC library for Visual Studio
- Played instrumental role in automation, localization and globalization testing of entire Visual Studio for Devices product
Education
PGP in Management - Dual Majors: Finance, Strategy
Indian School of Business
04.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
05.2005
Skills
- Customer Empathy
- Product Management
- Product Vision & Roadmaps
- Team Leadership
- Entrepreneurial and Innovative
- Stakeholder Management
Achievements & Recognition
- Awarded US Patent US10282453B2 on ‘Contextual and interactive sessions within Search’
- Winner of Machine Learning competition held at Microsoft with 50+ participating teams
- Received quick 4 promotions in last 6 years at Microsoft. Rated amongst best performing PMs in org.
- Promoted twice within 3 years at Mozy. Rated amongst best performing software engineers.
- Won third prize in technical paper presentation competition at Avishkar TechFest, 2004, MNNIT, Allahabad.
- Silver medalist in 12th Std & Bronze medalist in 10th Std – ICSE Board.
- Winner of several general knowledge competitions during schooling years.
Timeline
Founder
Recozilla
04.2022 - Current
Principal PM Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
01.2021 - 03.2022
Senior Lead Product Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
01.2020 - 12.2020
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2019
Product Manager
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
09.2011 - 06.2017
Product Manager
Apalya Technologies
05.2011 - 09.2011
Software Test Lead
Mozy Inc
01.2010 - 04.2010
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Mozy Inc
01.2009 - 12.2009
Software Engineer in Test
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
06.2007 - 12.2008
Software Design Engineer in Test
Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
06.2005 - 05.2007
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
PGP in Management - Dual Majors: Finance, Strategy
Indian School of Business
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