Mrinal Pati
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since October 2, 2024
Mrinal operates at the intersection of business and technology, integrating the two to drive impactful solutions. He started his career as a software engineer and transitioned to a product role to address business challenges and build products from concept to scale. With a passion for products, he gained experience across methodologies, industries, and regions. Mrinal believes that curiosity fuels innovation, a mindset that empowers him to deliver products that lead to customer success.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Acceptance Criteria
- Agile Product Management
- Backlog Management
- Distributed Team Management
- Execution
- Mockups
- Product Owner
- User Stories
Work Experience
Product Manager
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
- Implemented a 500% decrease in simulation runtime through cloud migration by orchestrating the transition to Azure cloud.
- Avoided liquidated damages (LD) for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) by prioritizing and gathering feature requirements and effectively coordinating with cross-functional teams to build and ship, resulting in no payment of LDs for SCADA.
- Built a single-line diagram editor for visualization of power flow.
Product Owner
GlobalLogic
- Guided two teams focused on a B2B greenfield product for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). The solution supported Fortune 500 companies and enhanced NAVEX’s platform for secure reporting and reputation protection.
- Managed and was liable for the timely shipping of product releases through close collaboration with agile product development teams and cross teams.
- Conducted product demos, implemented the product feedback as improvements, and recorded this feedback in Jira.
- Managed the product backlog, product roadmap, and solution designs, working with internal and external stakeholders to understand, translate/document customer requirements in Jira as features, epics, and user stories, and created wireframes.
IT Consultant
Telefónica
- Led requirements management, prioritization, and crafting user stories and use cases.
- Worked with internal and external stakeholders to understand and translate customer requirements and develop them into detailed product roadmaps, feature specifications, and business and functional requirements.
- Involved in the user design of products and reviewed customer product perception from business users.
- Acted as the subject matter expert for Netcracker Product Catalog during the product design phase.
Business and System Analyst
Netcracker
- Launched the Movistar product catalog for five countries, enabling faster market time and giving Movistar a competitive advantage.
- Facilitated and acted as a bridge between business and development.
- Designed the new product offering for new categories, including data center services. Updated and maintained existing and new catalog items.
- Tracked and managed development efforts by meeting business requirements. Elicited requirements and facilitated the requirement workshops. Maintained the product design document.
Senior Consultant | Business Analyst | Software Engineer
Wipro
- Created a Facebook chatbot to solve customer acquisitions, queries, and T2R for existing and new customers.
- Authored user stories, chat interaction sequences, and solution designs; crafted interaction design integrations and developed flow diagrams using Visio alongside wireframe designs.
- Provided domain consultancy and conducted secondary research for the Massachusetts Broadband Institute to propagate wireless internet to remote parts of Massachusetts counties.
Project History
Reduce the Loads and Controls Simulation Runtime by 70% for Towers in Wind Turbine
Implemented a 500% decrease in simulation runtime, achieving the project's overall goal.
• Led MVP selection and Azure Cloud migration decisions, coordinating development and design efforts, prioritizing features, and managing product shipment.
• Exited simulation runtime takes 48 tests in 65 seconds; the new implementation takes 500 tests in 28 seconds.
Infrastructure Monitoring—Availability Report and Network Topology
Avoided liquidation damages (LD) by quickly delivering the feature to the production, thus saving $12,000.
• Collaborated with cross-department to understand the design capability and deliver the final product without defects.
• Delivered the features in record time and limited developers' capacity within two months.
• Navigated various design challenges to deliver the outcomes.
• Delivered the systems availability report and network topology feature.
NAVEX GRC Platform Digitalization
Led the effort from a product owner capability to build a modern UI for NAVEX, thus migrating from the old one.
NAVEX's online platform enables customers to securely report grievances and complaints, safeguarding the reputation of their respective companies from any misconduct.
• Managed the product backlog, roadmap, and solution designs; worked with internal and external stakeholders to understand, translate/document customer requirements in Jira as features, epics, and user stories; and created wireframes.
• Released critical features and was accountable for shipping product releases on time through close collaboration with agile product development teams and cross teams.
• Conducted product demos, implementing the product feedback as improvements and recording this feedback in Jira.
• Created the business plan/case, became well-versed with scrum ceremonies, and facilitated story pointing and scrum ceremonies.
Education
Master's Degree in Busines Strategy
Indian Institute of Management - Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Siddaganga Institute of Technology - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Bangalore University - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Certifications
Becoming a Product Manager
Udemy
Design Thinking at Work
LInkedIn Learning
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Figma, Balsamiq Mockups, Postman
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Product Management, Azure DevOps, Design Thinking, Agile Business Analysis, Testing
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications
Other
Execution, Sprint Backlog, Cross-functional Collaboration, Feature Backlog Prioritization, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Product Owner, Mockups, Negotiation, Miro, Team Management, Backlog Management, Creative Problem Solving, Complex Problem Solving, User Interface (UI), Distributed Team Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Programming, Physics, Product Strategy, Notion, Swagger, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Catalogs, Netcracker suite, Netcracker Product Catalog, Business Analysis, Java, Scala, APIs
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