Deb RoyChowdhury
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Brantford, ON, Canada
Toptal member since February 3, 2020
A product leader with experience building complex data products, Deb has built AI applications in eCommerce, healthcare, life sciences, public safety, and automotive industries while developing teams of experienced product managers and data professionals. He led the data product group at Jungle Scout with four reporting product managers in charge of creating data products from zero to one. Previously, Deb led data product organization at Achievers, General Motors, DataFoundryAI, and KaliberAI.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Data Science
- Go-to-market Plans
- Mentorship & Coaching
- Product Leadership
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Roadmaps
Work Experience
Group Product Manager | Data
Jungle Scout
- Delivered iterations of the data platform, data science, and estimate generation pipeline as the reporting manager of data product managers responsible for the roadmap.
- Delivered a data platform that collects, stores, and processes petabyte-scale eCommerce data.
- Refactored end-to-end data pipeline, generating sales and revenue estimates of about 50 million products daily.
- Grew data as a service around a $2.5 million revenue pipeline since Q3, 2021.
Product Manager | Artificial Intelligence
General Motors
- Owned the agile product development pipeline for the AI team, delivered at a $97 million value annually.
- Represented the voice of thousands of internal users from internal teams to manage an informed AI backlog.
- Piloted lean innovation experiments for the 15 connected vehicle innovation team members.
- Delivered three AI applications by designing and prioritizing specifications, workflows, and mock-ups.
Product Lead | AI
Data Foundry AI
- Built two proof-of-value data apps while achieving a $3 million annual revenue run rate.
- Developed product roadmaps for three multibillion-dollar enterprise clients based on their data inventory.
- Built business models and product strategies for three AI applications leading to a new revenue stream.
Head of Product and Data Science
Kaliber AI
- Built the product MVP and the team leading to a five-time acquisition while reporting to the CEO.
- Led the team to ship a predictive app running 7 million algorithms with 65% to 90% accuracy.
- Delivered the MVP to support five enterprise customers with up to 1,000 users per client.
- Identified gaps and led the build of an internal speech annotation web app, which led to savings of $700,000.
- Hired, scaled, and led a team of six data scientists, ten software engineers, and 15 research consultants.
Head of Product
Tappozz
- Built the business model and ran over 100 MVP experiments to optimize sales channels in months.
- Designed and developed a digital storefront to showcase products, generating $100,000 in revenues in six months.
- Defined and executed the go-to-market strategy to acquire the first 1,000 customers.
Senior Software Engineer
Allscripts Healthcare
- Collaborated with five engineers to build the in-house big data platform with 4 TB of clinical data on a private cloud.
- Defined and prioritized analytics product requirements with three cross-functional teams for over 50 priority customers.
- Identified analytics reporting gaps and built an application to audit data mapping to ensure 100% data integrity.
- Exceeded company targets by 15% by achieving MU compliance of 100%, which resulted in $3 million in extra revenue.
Project History
Kovid Thinking Machine
Delivered a beta cognitive AI platform with speech and vision algorithms within 12 months.
Case Management for Pharma
Led the MVP prototyping of the next-generation pharmacovigilance application.
Education
Executive MBA Degree in Global Product Leadership
CMR University - Bangalore, India
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science Engineering
AIEM India - Mumbai, India
Certifications
Product Leadership
Reforge
Advanced Product Management
Product Faculty
Deep Learning Foundation
Udacity
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Canva, Prezi, Google Docs
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Azure DevOps, Agile, Design Thinking
Platforms
SharePoint, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Other
Data Product Manager, Product Management, SaaS Product Management, Machine Learning, Data Science, Lean Canvas, Jobs to be Done (JTBD), SaaS, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Big Data, Product Strategy, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Databases, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Models, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Prototyping, Go-to-market Plans, Product Leadership, Roadmaps, Mentorship & Coaching, Coaching, Teams, Miro, Microsoft Office, Lucidchart, User Research, User Experience (UX), Digital Marketing Strategy, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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