Product Manager at Best Buy | Building Community @Theproductchannel 20k+ | Co-Host @Everything Product Podcast

Product Leader specializing in transforming enterprises through AI-powered platform products, with 14+ years of experience taking complex technical challenges from 0-to-1 and leading breakthrough products that redefine industries

At Best Buy, spearheaded the development of a developer portal and AI-powered digital assistant, solving enterprise-wide information discovery challenges and significantly accelerating development velocity across the engineering team

Led the creation of Opticom 360, an AI-telematics platform transforming urban fleet management and smart city operations, now deployed across major US cities.

At Bosch, I pioneered a predictive content engine powering the Universal Automotive Diagnostic Tool, revolutionizing the automotive diagnostic industry.

Beyond corporate innovation, I'm deeply committed to advancing the product management field. I co-host the 'Everything Product' podcast (41,000+ subscribers across 52 countries) and founded 'The Product Channel' newsletter (20,000+ subscribers across 114 countries), sharing insights that influence strategic thinking in product management.

⭕️ Siddhartha Saladi, MBA, MS

Bosch Global Software Technologies

- Lead a team of 5-7 engineers and collaborate with business users for requirements elicitation
- Develop Machine Learning Models using python and scikit learn library for application performance optimisation and data engineering
- Develop distributed system components supporting vehicle diagnostics data engineering solutions using Java, c# and .net framework
- Perform requirements analysis and elaboration 
- Design high level and low level architecture

Technology Specialist

- Led a team of 2-4 engineers
- Designed a scalable distributed micro services architecture and helped reduce the infrastructure cost by 90%
- Designed and developed a scalable distributed system to perform Market Competitor Analysis as a value addition in parallel to ongoing project roles and responsibilities 
- Developed key components of distributed system that supports vehicle diagnostic data engineering

Technical Lead

- Led a team of 2-4 data engineers for Mercedes Benz vehicle diagnostics content engineering
- Key contributor for increasing the vehicle diagnostic data coverage for European brands from 15% to 85%

Lead Project Coordinator

- Served as SPOC for ETL application development for Ford and Mazda vehicle diagnostic data engineering
- Designed and Developed Jira API integration component for a web application
- Lead developer of Web Scraping application to search vehicles available in dealerships for vehicle testing in Minnesota state

Development Team Lead

- Performed requirements analysis and elaboration
- Established collaboration and communication channels with cross-functional teams that include business users, cross-regional management and development team
- Effectively reduced the issue resolution time by 60% within 3 months of On-site tenure
- Designed and developed a web application for vehicle testers to capture test results from field

Senior Project Coordinator

- Designed and developed ETL application for vehicle diagnostic data engineering from different data sources using PL/SQL and MSSQL Server
- Developed a desktop GUI application using c# and .net framework to manage ETL process and view reports in dashboard
- Developed and managed CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins 
- Key contributor for low level design and ERD model

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Limited

- Developed a robust web application using ASP.NET MVC framework
- Migrated Legacy data to new database table structure with 0 errors
- Deployed web application to production using IIS Server
- Integrated SSRS reports to web application

Software Engineer

As a technical lead, I bring a diverse set of skills and experiences to the table. With a strong background in software development and design, I have a deep understanding of the technical aspects of building software solutions. I am well-versed in a variety of software development methodologies and have experience managing teams of developers and engineers to deliver projects on time and within budget.
I am always up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the software development and I bring this knowledge to my work to deliver innovative and impactful solutions that exceed the expectations of my clients and end-users.
I have a passion for innovation, a drive for excellence, and a deep understanding of both the technical and creative aspects of building successful software solutions.

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