Apoorva Kumar
Technical Product Lead
Mumbai, IN.About
Highly accomplished Technical Product Lead with over 8 years of experience in driving end-to-end product development and technical project management for scalable systems. Proven expertise in optimizing software development lifecycles, resource allocation, and cross-functional team leadership. Successfully delivered impactful solutions across e-commerce, fintech, and media, consistently enhancing user experience, operational efficiency, and revenue growth by up to 74% and reducing net losses by 20%.
Work
WeWake Astrology and Pooja
|Technical Product Manager
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Summary
Led product development and strategic initiatives to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency for WeWake Astrology and Pooja.
Highlights
Designed and implemented automated communication flows for pre-while-post session messages, increasing repeat orders by 30% and improving overall CSAT.
Managed communication strategies for High Net-Worth Individual (HNI) customers (50L+ net worth), establishing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for specialized services.
Drove product strategy clarity by gamifying discovery with stakeholders, leveraging user and market/competitive research insights.
KIFS Trade capital
|Data Analyst and Engineering (Equity Derivative F&O)
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Summary
Engineered robust data solutions and analytics platforms for high-frequency trading operations, ensuring data integrity and performance.
Highlights
Centralized and aggregated historical market data from multiple channels using Kafka, Golang, KNIME, and OLAP databases, ensuring high-integrity data for effective trading back-tests.
Developed real-time market screeners processing 20M+ daily NSE tick events with Apache Flink and TimescaleDB, empowering traders to identify dynamic hedging strategies.
Optimized time-series analytics workflows with Apache Parquet columnar storage and windowed aggregations, reducing net losses by 20% (INR 1-2 Crore savings) through improved strategy simulations.
Collaborated cross-functionally to ensure seamless data integration, high system reliability, and low-latency analytics for mission-critical trading operations.
BookMyShow
|Product Engineer
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Summary
Led product development and modernization initiatives for core platforms, enhancing user engagement, performance, and scalability for a leading entertainment platform.
Highlights
Led modernization of the Ratings & Reviews platform, migrating architecture from PHP to Golang microservices, MySQL to MongoDB, and batch jobs to Kafka queues.
Revamped rating algorithms using user segmentation and weighted scoring, increasing review frequency by 70% and accuracy by 85%, significantly enhancing user trust and engagement.
Built and scaled a personalization recommendation engine for TVOD and Live Events, consolidating 40M+ user records from multiple systems to drive higher user engagement and cross-sell.
Streamlined Agile project management and collaboration framework, boosting productivity by 40% and reducing product backlogs by ~60%.
Developed a fraud detection, alerting, and content moderation system, reducing fraud by ~74%.
Finnxt Technologies
|Software engineer
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Summary
Developed and deployed product modules for a credit card lead generation and lending platform, ensuring operational efficiency and security.
Highlights
Developed and deployed key product modules for Loannxt, a credit card lead generation and lending platform.
Managed technical operations, enforcing security protocols and ensuring server reliability through process automation.
StartupsHQ
|Co-founder & CTO
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Summary
Co-founded and served as CTO for a community-driven platform connecting startups with essential resources, knowledge, and funding.
Highlights
Established 'WeLoveStartups', a 150+ member community, facilitating connections between startups, investors, employees, and partners for resources, knowledge, and funding.
Delivered freelancing projects, including high-frequency marketing email server setup and administration for EMC.
Education
Maharishi Markandeshwar university
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B.Tech
Computer Science
Grade: 7.6 CGPA
Skills
Product Management & Strategy
User-centric Product Development, Customer Insights, Market Research, Technical & Product Requirements, Risk Management, Practical Trade-offs, Project Management (Agile, Lean), Product Roadmap & Delivery, Data-Driven Insights (Qualitative, Quantitative, Performance), Cross-team Collaboration (Engineering, UI/UX, Business, Risk), Open & Inclusive Leadership.
Backend & System Architecture
Back-End Technologies, Microservices (Golang, PHP), System Design (SOA, BPM, REST, gRPC, GraphQL), Scalable Web Solutions, API Development, Fraud Detection Systems.
Data & Analytics
Data Centralization, Data Aggregation, Real-time Market Screeners, Time-series Analytics, Columnar Storage (Apache Parquet), Data Integration, Business Intelligence (Metabase, Kibana, Grafana, Excel), Analytics (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Posthog).
Databases
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, TimescaleDB, OLAP Databases, MySQL.
DevOps & Cloud
Linux, Git, CI/CD, Docker, AWS.
Programming Languages & Frameworks
Golang, Python, JavaScript, JS Frameworks, PHP.
Project Tools & Design
JIRA, Confluence, Issue Tracking, Figma, Whimsical, Draw.IO, Balsamiq.
Emerging Technologies
AgenticAI (Exploring).