Hi!
I am
Prashant jain.
I am passionate about building innovative products and services that would help organizations achieve operational efficiency. I am an entrepreneur by heart and like solving problems at the interface of business and technology.
If you have an idea and want to team up, then let's talk!
01 PROFESSIONAL
MY SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
DESIGN THINKING
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
DATA SCIENCE
MACHINE LEARNING
EXPERIMENTATION
ANALYTICS
STRATEGY
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
02 PORTFOLIO
MY LATEST WORK!
03 experience
June 2021 - June 2023
DATADOG
PRODUCT MANAGER
Growth PM of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform.
Founding PM of OpenTelemetry (OTel) platform product across the company for complete observability with traces, metrics, and logs.
Led partner integrations with APM product to reduce new customer acquisition costs
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Summer 2020 (June - August)
AMAZON.COM
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER - TECHNICAL
Collaborated with Amazonians across Business, Tech, HR, and Legal teams to understand user needs and build accurate pay product for more than 1.4 million contract employees. Took part in org-wide Ideathon to pitch an end-to-end product that aligned with and got accepted to the org's 3-year plan.
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2018-2019
GREAT LEARNING
PROGRAM MANAGER
Led 3 cross-functional teams to develop an e-learning platform for programs in career critical competencies such as Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Implemented product enhancements for a stronger student-faculty experience.
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2016-2017
PROVANA LLC
PRODUCT MANAGER
Developed product vision and strategy for 6 products in finance, audit, and compliance industry. Gathered product requirements. Built product roadmaps. Created product personas. Wrote complex machine learning code. Performed user testing.
FALL 2015
NASA & DCE NUCLEAR PHYSICS LAB
RESEARCHER (PURSUING PASSION)
Studied inflationary cosmology and large scale structure of the universe as its consequence.
Experimented with cosmic rays to predict the types of particles they constitute and their properties.
Devised a more precise age determination technique for HD115444: an ultra metal-poor giant star. It is one of the oldest relic of the universe.
WINTER 2013
BHARAT ELECTRONICS
RESEARCH INTERN
Bharat Electronics Limited is also known as India's Lockheed Martin
Conducted Network and spectrum analysis of RADAR systems.
Developed human-computer interaction enabled radar system to facilitate close-range sensing of hand gestures
Carried out research work in Radio astronomy.
SUMMER 2013
NATIONAL THERMAL POWER CORP.
PRODUCT RESEARCH INTERN
NTPC Energy Technology and Research Alliance (NETRA) is often called NREL of India.
Studied and fabricated solar cells used for industrial and non-industrial purposes.
Carried out I/O Data analysis of solar photo-voltaic and solar thermal systems.
June 2023 - Present
CONFLUENT
PRODUCT LEADER
Driving product strategy and implementation of Cloud Security and Observability products across Confluent
August 2020 - June 2021
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Founder of OneNexus, RespiR, and SkinLens
OneNexus empowers employee and organization growth by redefining workplace relationships. With OneNexus, traditionally 'siloed' employees can now build a reliable social nexus without boundaries, and can help their peers in reskilling and upskilling.
I successfully raised seed round and led a team of 6 people to build the MVP with 3-5 design partners.
RespiR is an ML-driven IoT based smart device to predict the onset of respiratory conditions. The proposal was shortlisted for NSF Seed Fund - Phase1 in 2020.
SkinLens aims to democratize expert-level skin healthcare throughout the world. It was the runner-up startup idea in Cornell Ideathon
August 2019 - May 2021
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE STUDENT
Cornell Merit Scholar, Intel Edge AI Scholar
Currently, pursuing a Masters degree in Computer and Information Sciences with a concentration in Connective Media which refers to the confluence of Computing, Engineering, Business, Design, and Psychology. Taking business courses. Running experiments. Building high-impact products to solve user problems at scale.
2017-2018
THE SMART CUBE
TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER
Built multiple awesome products in social media analysis and risk management space from scratch. Leveraged technical skills to close the communication gap between engineering and the rest of the world. Constantly engaged with clients. Worked with multiple teams across product development, AI, research, and marketing.
2015-2016
INOVIEA VENTURES
PRODUCT ANALYST
Followed my passion for working with a clean energy startup. Carried out strategic analysis and resource modeling of large-scale solar projects. Embraced challenges. Acquired a spectrum of skills.
SUMMER 2014
DEFENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
PRODUCT RESEARCH INTERN
Study, characterization, simulation, and fabrication of LASER Diode wafers at Solid State Physics Laboratory
WINTER 2013
PRASAR BHARATI - ELECTRONICS RESEARCH LAB
RESEARCH INTERN
Fabricated Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) circuits used for remote telecommunication signaling.
Studied RaDars, LiDars, and SoNars
2011-2015
DELHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
Bachelor of Technology with Major in Electronics and Minor in Physics (Material Science and Engineering)
Met the smartest people. Built stuff. Learned cool concepts in quantum physics, quantum information sciences, computational methods, nuclear and astrophysics.
GET IN TOUCH!
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line. If you don't get a response immediately, I might just be busy innovating revolutionary products and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
May the force be with you!
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Email Address: pj263@cornell.edu
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