The Product Leap

I write weekly Newsletter on my journey from being a Software Engineer to a Product guy.

Writer

Sage

Building accounting mobile apps for accountants and their customers. Using data driven approach for product growth. 
- Roadmap creation and ideation
- Product analytics
- Cross functional collaboration
- Release management

Product Manager

Maropost

Led the team in successful launches in different areas of marketing product.

- Successfully launched bi-directional SMS marketing.
- Led the research for SMS marketing by closely observing the market trends, users
and competitors.
- Collaborated with the Product Marketing for GTM - giving demos and preparing content.
- Increased the customer acquisition with new customers engaging in SMS marketing.

- Successfully launched transactional messaging product. Managed the roadmap and shared the product goals.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to compile product requirements, prioritize features for alignment with product and business goals.
- Worked with the Scrum team, built trust and improved Sprint velocity leading to improved team performance.

- Successfully redesigned entire product.
- Heard customer feedback on old UI and usability. Worked with UX team on new Brand
design.
- Collaborated with UX team on A/B design testing.
- Worked with Scrum Team to deliver redesigned features based on feature usage. Launch resulted in improved customer satisfaction and NPS.

- Led the team of mobile developers towards successful product launches.
- Advocated the mobile first approach in product development leading to more focus on mobile area.

Team Lead

- Successfully released increments to mobile SDK.
- Led the team on iOS and Android developers in collaboration and code reviews.

Senior iOS Developer

SPADEZ SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

- Led the team of mobile app developers in various mobile app projects.
- Received positive feedbacks from various clients leading to improved portfolio that led
to more project acquisitions.
- Requirement gathering

Senior Software Engineer

SPAN Systems

- Successfully launched Norwegian and Swedish mobile app projects.
- Successfully launched ASP.NET technology based web application for US client.

Software Engineer

Ionnor Solutions

- Successfully launched 2 mobile applications for Norwegian client. 
- Completed various POC's for organisation's portfolio.

Software engineer

After working almost 7 years as a Software Engineer in different roles, I was offered an opportunity to work as a Business analyst. The opportunity that I took. I always envied product roles and their contribution in Product Development. And it was my turn to be one.

For around 6 years, I have worked in different product roles, learning new things and product areas. I have failed, learnt and achieved in this period. There were challenges, but with right support, process and actions, I faced those head on.

Deciding to take that leap was not easy. Simply because I was leaving behind my technical experience and embracing a new one. With time I have realised, that is just a mindset. With proper research and process, you can take "The Product Leap" with confidence.

With my experience of moving into product role, I am here to share those experiences and help the professionals who are at that stage now.

Follow me to know about my experiences and how that can help you in similar times.

I write a weekly Newsletter on my learnings and the actions I took, that helped me take that leap.
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Nitish Rana

Responsible for maintenance & Support for maropost email marketing product
•	Requirement Analysis. – Requirements gathering with intensive client interaction in Absorption phase.
•	Responsible for new enhancements, various deployments of new features added in co-ordination with webmaster team.
•	Responsible for handling numerous High Priority issues with utmost intelligence and prudence.
•	Debugging the issues faced by the clients and resolution of critical bugs in current system

Tech lead (ROR) Senior Software engineer

FORAY SOFTWARE PRIVATE LIMITED (TCS )

Ruby Developer , worked on ETL kiba framework for Japan client operation.
- Design of architecture of MWM multiple warehouse management.
- Provided various approches to build the product in ruby.
- Worked on Postgres Sql , Core ruby.
- Maintainance of built product

Ruby On Rail Developer

Ascra Technologies

RoR developer 
- Built application from scratch.
- Worked on Facebook apps.
- Implemented  Rest Apis.
- Maintainance of ecommerce application.

Ruby on Rails Developer

Aretove Technologies

ROR- (Software engineer)
- Bug fixing and maintainance of project.
-  Worked on HTML and Rspec cucumber test cases.

ROR (Software-Engineer)

Titanium interactive private limited.

ROR- developer
- Learned Ruby on rails.
- Worked on dot net nuke content management system

RoR Developer

8+ year of Total IT experience in development in with niche technologies like Ruby, Rails, html 5, Ajax , JavaScript, MySql, Git, Svn , ETL Kiba Framewok, Cassandra, Elastic search, Redis, Graphql, integrated apis.

Proficient in Rails ( 2.3.4, 3.2.x, 4.x. x, 5.x.x), Ruby (1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.x. x), HTML, CSS

Extensive experience in build REST API in rails to communicate with mobile application. 



Good experience in implementing Queuing functionality using Resque and Redis database.

Good Expertise in logic building and analysing.

Ability to make complex database queries.

Experience of using GIT version controller.

Good Command over Bootstrap.

Good understanding of html and css preprocessors like HAML, SASS, SLIM.

Experience in integration of third party apis.

Working knowledge of Rspec , factory girl.

AWS server setup. and deployment.

Problem solver and ability to work under pressure.

Good communication skill

Good team player, and excellent leadership skills.

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