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Product Management Mentor

Grow Products

🤝 How can I help you?
I help SaaS Founders accelerate slow-growing Products 
with better User Experience, Product Led Growth and Go-To-Market Strategies.

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"Darpan, Wow! Thank you for taking the time to read through and provide that feedback. I really appreciate it."
- Ashley Alexander, Co-Founder, Arkeo AI

Founder

Invested in 10+ early-stage startups across various sectors, 
including Education, e-commerce, SaaS and Electric Vehicles

Angel Investor

Architech

At Telus (Architech's client), I led the charge in redefining B2B segment’s conversion and retention strategy, orchestrating a cross-functional effort across design, content management, and analytics teams. Our focus on growth experimentation and customer journey optimization resulted in:

✅ Doubled conversion rates by integrating advanced customer journey mapping and A/B testing frameworks.
✅ Boosted clickthrough rates by 50% on critical landing pages, refining call-to-actions, and streamlining the customer journey to enhance user engagement and satisfaction.

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"It's been awesome working with you - you have a great ability to understand some of the fairly complex ecosystems and projects that we've undertaken, allowing you to support and manage those projects. You've been extremely fun and pleasant to work with and have always done a great job protecting the time of team members."
- Rob Walker ,Manager, Experience Design

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"Darpan has been an excellent and extremely efficient team lead for the Optimization squad.  He clearly knows how to motivate and get the best out of team members, puts in very apparent care and attention into the work, and consistently provides valuable insights and ideas." 
- Jean-Sébastien Côté telus, Senior Content Producer

Senior Product Manager

As the Senior Product Manager at Architech, I spearheaded the vision and strategy for our digital platform across major cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, and GCP, with a keen focus on DevSecOps and design systems. My leadership across DevSecOps, Design, and Frontend teams led to:

✅ A 25% increase in profit margins through the strategic application of DevSecOps and design systems, responding proactively to customer feedback.
✅ 50% higher DevSecOps efficiency, achieving a more agile and secure development lifecycle.
✅ Enhanced productivity by 20% for our designers and developers, implementing tools like Figma and Storybook to facilitate collaborative design and streamline workflows.

Product Manager

FutureVault

In my role as Senior Product Manager at FutureVault Inc, I orchestrated the strategy for three key Finance SaaS products, leading product owners through the journey from ideation to market launch. Our collaborative efforts with sales, marketing, and customer success teams culminated in:

✅ 75% revenue growth by implementing 10 significant features annually, informed by rigorous market analysis and user feedback.
✅ Expanded our daily active users from 1,000 to 60,000, thanks to targeted new user segment strategies and feature development based on comprehensive competitive analysis and deep customer insights.
✅ Maintained a customer retention rate above 75%, driven by a relentless focus on user-centric product enhancements.
✅ Led segment expansion by 3x in 2 years by driving automation at scale with machine learning (ML/AI) features for document management.

As the pioneering Product Manager for FutureVault's suite of finance SaaS platforms, I led a global team of 20 through the product lifecycle, from ideation to market introduction. Our collaboration across sales, marketing, and customer success achieved:

✅ A 15% increase in NPS within 9 months, following a comprehensive user experience overhaul.
✅ 25% faster team velocity by adopting React Native, significantly enhancing our cross-platform development capabilities and market responsiveness.
✅ Improved financial advisor efficiency by 75% in 1 year by building an experimental machine learning (ML/AI) model for financial document labelling and filing.

Stellar

My tenure at Stellar Group was marked by leadership in developing HRIS products, from payroll to performance management, for 4,000 users. Key achievements include:

✅ Expanding the product owner team fivefold, establishing a foundation of excellence and continuous learning.
✅ Reducing software maintenance costs by 25% and cutting HR operational expenses by 40% annually through strategic cost-benefit analyses and the introduction of electronic recruitment software, significantly improving operational efficiency and product quality.

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"You consistently go above and beyond. Thanks Darpan"
- Tennille Moisel, General Manager

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"I would also like to acknowledge Darpan for his commitment, dedication and hard work. You have certainly gone the extra mile and I would like to acknowledge your significant contribution."
- Farid Jarrar, Chief Information Officer

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"Darpan, Thank you for your hard work and dedication, it is a pleasure having you as a part of the team. Keep up the great work."
- Scott Walsh, General Manager

✅ Boosted company revenue through a $25 million PCI-compliant contract.
✅ Cut outage response time by 75%, and reduced system issues by 20%, while leading a 5-person engineering team focused on business continuity.

Software Service Delivery Coordinator

✅ Revamped Software support for 130 employees and 200 workstations.
✅ Saved the centre $170,000 annually and slashing incident evidence collection and escalation times to 10 seconds and 5 minutes, respectively

Software Service Delivery Associate

Brisbane City Council

✅ Developed a financial and statistical reporting system using web technologies.
✅ Achieved a 90% boost in report accuracy across 27 regional councils by centralizing data.

Fullstack Developer

📢 SaaS Founders: Are These Problems Killing Your Growth?
❌ Painful User Churn: New users sign up then vanish, stalling your growth
❌ Endless Complaints: Your product feels too complex for users to love
❌ Wasted Resources: You pour money into features that fail to deliver results
❌ Investor Pressure: Expectations mount, and confidence fades

🚀 The Solution You Need, Right Now
I'm Darpan—your Product Growth Partner who turns struggling SaaS products into market leaders.

✅ How I Create Success Stories:
User Experience Magic: I simplify onboarding and remove friction points that drive users away
Product-Led Growth: I unlock your product's natural ability to drive retention and revenue
Strategic Go-To-Market: I position your product to stand out in crowded markets

🏆 Real Results (Not Just Promises):
Scaled products from 1,000 to 60,000+ Daily Active Users (60× growth in 2 years)
Boosted SaaS revenues from $100K to $1M+ ARR
Increased conversion rates by 100% with smart UX improvements
Launched 100+ successful features that users actually want
Delivered growth across Fintech, eCommerce, Education, Government, Telecom, and Logistics

🔥 Stop hoping for growth. Let's engineer it together.
📩 DM me to discuss how we can scale your SaaS product.

🧠 Additional Skills:
Product Led Growth and Go-To-Market Strategies, Market Research, User Experience UX, Analytics and Metrics, Sales Funnel Optimization, A/B Testing

Darpan Dadhaniya

ALPACKED

We provide all types of DevOps & Cloud services. Here in Alpacked, DevOps consulting helps organization to break down silos and setup the right processes between departments to align with the business goal.

And being the DevOps service provider, we take care of your operations so that you could focus on business needs.

We provide solutions for startups, small and medium businesses in next areas: 
- SaaS
- E-commerce
- Healthcare
- Fintech
- Education 

Our expert team will help you to achieve swift and measurable results:
- Reduced monthly bills
- Improved your workflow and product
- Regularly tracked KPIs
- These all become possible due to implementing technical, processual, measurement, and cultural approaches.

Technical
- Continuous integration and development;
- Deployment automation;
- Infrastructure automation;
- Test automation;
- Service-oriented and microservice architecture;
- Well thought tooling;
- Containerized environments.

Process-related
- Highly efficient teams with great communication;
- Streamlined workflow;
- Integrated feedback loop.
Measurement
- Tracked KPIs;
- Integrated monitoring, alerting, reporting systems.

Cultural
- Teams satisfaction;
- Established organizational and learning culture

——> Let’s start a chat!

CEO, Co-founder

X-Team

AWS internal infrastructure and improvements for overall DevOps processes inside the internal teams

DevOps Engineer

Dedicatted

CI/CD configuration and maintenance;

configuring dev/prod environments (mainly on AWS and GCP);

monitoring and performance optimization of infrastructure;

working with configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK) on daily basis. All of the projects described later in the CV are/were projects where I was a consultant within this company.

Chief Technology Officer

Forbes

Preparing and implementing microservice infrastructure for Cloud Environment.

Dockerization and setting up infrastructure in kubernetes. Setting up security checks, network mesh with istio. Migration of F5 to Fastly and kubernetes load-balancers/ingresses. Setting up EFK, Newrelic integration for k8s environemnt.

Migration of customer services from Datacenter to GCP ready infrastructure in k8s.

Event-driven architecture and ETL data processing including Apache Kafka, MuleSoft and others

Lead DevOps Engineer

Crossover 

Responsible for setting up right CI/CD processes and applying DevOps methodology. Take part in managing team of DevOps engineers during new products takeover (reverse engineering of current instances and services, applying new products to company standard ) Migrating existing workloads to AWS best practices

Cloud Chief Software Architect

Thomas Cook Money

Whole stack of AWS services:

Configured Serverless architecture with API gateways, Lambda functions, SNS, SQS, SES, DynamoDB .

CI/CD automation with CodeBuild, CodePipeline tools. Infrastructure as a Code approach, all on AWS accounts was created and automated with CloudFormation service.

Service is working with payment cards and insurances , so the system was developed to be GDPR compliant.

All access was managed by IAM Groups,Roles, Policies, AWS Organizations. All the data is encrypted using different types of keys, including AWS KMS keys.

Configuring Apache Kafka for usage as messaging system and stream processing. Responsible for high-availability and scalability of Kafka cluster on ec2 instances and in Kubernetes with Helm. Configuring security for kafka - HTTPs, JAAS for the brokers and clients, authorization and acls.

Lead DevOps engineer

Responsible for:
 CI/CD configuration and maintenance; configuring dev/prod environments (mainly on AWS); monitoring, performance optimization of the services; working with configuration management tools (Chef/Ansible) on daily basis.
All of the projects described later in the profile are/were projects where I was a consultant within this company.

DevOps consultant

Upwork

Worked with several IT startups and helped to configure CI/CD using Jenkins, ansible, docker; service monitoring and metrics collecting with ELK stack, zabbix, collectd; automating infrastructure setup.

DevOps engineer

Huawei Technologies

Was responsible for mass mailing platform delivery operations, including: integration with customer services and networks, creating acceptance test-cases, performing acceptance tests, installing/deploying new patches and platform modules.

DevOps/SysOps Engineer

Helping CTOs with DevOps remote teams

ALPACKED - a DevOps agency providing professional managed and advisory services. We have more than 8 years of successful operation in the IT segment. Send me a direct message to get a 1-hour complimentary consultation!

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