Ritesh Nain, Product Manager in Delhi, India
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Ritesh Nain

Verified Expert  in Product Management

Bio

Ritesh is a senior technology product management executive with 15+ years of experience in product, project, engineering, and business management, focusing on Agile and Waterfall models. His duties included strategizing, stakeholder collaboration, building and prioritizing roadmaps and user stories, MVP, P&L, and full product execution and delivery. Ritesh worked in multiple domains such as B2B, B2C, web and mobile platforms, SaaS, AWS, and Azure cloud and dealt with customers in 35+ countries.

Project Highlights

Fintranxect Web Lending Platform
Architected and led the web lending platform from scratch by managing the cross-functional remote development team and collaborating with the management. Took the platform growth to 10,000 orders processing in the initial span of six months.

Expertise

  • Agile Software Development
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  • Product Management
  • Product Strategy
  • ProductPlan
  • Strategic Planning & Execution
  • Technical Project Management

Work Experience

Product and Technology Head

2020 - 2023
Fintranxect Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Collaborated with senior management on developing the product roadmap, defining prioritization, design prototyping, and delivery demos for acceptance.
  • Managed a cross-functional remote development team and assisted in the technology architecting of the solution, ensuring timely delivery as per the definition of done. Used Slack for team coordination.
  • Managed the Jira Kanban board, user story creation, and backlog prioritization.
  • Collaborated with 3rd-party lenders, NBFCs, and banks with their APIs to create a seamless process flow.
  • Assisted marketing and sales teams, giving them product updates and coordination in go-to-market.
  • Handled technology execution from scratch, including desirability, definition of functionalities, and tech stack decisions. Used React, Node.js, MySQL, Amazon S3 bucket, and EC2 on AWS.
  • Helped build a platform comprising web and mobile apps, eKYC in place, and separate portals for super admin, lenders, partners, borrowers, and users via a fully automated dataflow pipeline.

Product Head

2019 - 2021
RS Portals Pvt Ltd
  • Conceptualized and developed the idea of a visitor management solution called DoRunDo in selected market segments. Worked with co-founders to propose and expand the idea, identifying potential targeted market segments and dividing customer segments.
  • Created the product roadmap, features, prioritization, and final MVP layout.
  • Managed a cross-functional remote development team for Android and iOS native mobile apps and web apps using Slack and Jira and following the Kanban method.

Product Manager | Project Manager

2016 - 2019
Freelancer
  • Developed and delivered an eCommerce store using the Magento framework for Erawan Spices by implementing wide functionalities in a short span of time.
  • Collaborated with the development team to decide on the stable version, fixed security vulnerabilities, and defined the process of regular updates and fixes.
  • Oversaw full testing and final deployment in an aggressive timeframe of 15 days.

Co-founder | Product and Technology Head

2012 - 2016
Self-employed
  • Co-founded the idea of connecting farmers to consumers using tech via mobile and web apps called Food Saints and Food Ants.
  • Managed the outsourced development efforts for apps rolling out with planned features and functionalities.
  • Connected with over 1,000 farmers network in three states (Delhi, Haryana, and Punjab) and managed direct-to-home delivery to end consumers in the South West Delhi territory in Delhi, India.
  • Led the funding efforts and raised the initial angel funding round from a combination of high-net-worth individuals.

Co-founder | Product and Technology Head, Strategy

2000 - 2011
Ascent Telecom
  • Co-founded Ascent Telecom to provide private labeled software to service providers and enterprises (B2B). Ideated and handled multiple responsibilities for developing and delivering cutting-edge telecom software across geographical boundaries.
  • Created organization structure from scratch, built a team and handled marketing, sales, product management, customer accounts, and partnerships with multiple stakeholders.
  • Scaled the company so as to have customers in over 35 countries with over 12 B2B varied new products launched during 11 years.

Project History

Fintranxect Web Lending Platform

Architected and led the web lending platform from scratch by managing the cross-functional remote development team and collaborating with the management. Took the platform growth to 10,000 orders processing in the initial span of six months.

Web lending platform Fintranxect is a web application ecosystem hosted on AWS cloud servers. It provides an automated interface to end consumers who seek loans from different banks, NBFCs, and financial institutions called lenders. The web platform has been integrated with these lenders through a set of secure APIs and various partners who generate leads for consumers seeking loans. The web platform is also integrated with these partners through secure APIs. The complete platform is SSL protected, and data encryption is followed at several points to ensure the data protection of consumers.

As the product head and project lead of this project, I discussed and understood the initial base requirements of the management, converted these base requirements to broad functionalities, guided the design of wireframes with the help of a designer, created a feature roadmap, and ensured that the development team had a proper understanding of the work to be done. Used Agile Kanban framework through Jira to manage the day-to-day work and updates and ultimately grew and stabilized it to the 10,000 orders processed level with around 32 partners and lenders integrated into the platform.

DoRunDo Visitor Management

Took the initiative right from ideation to strategy, design, functionalities, the definition of MVP, go-to-market, and launch. Led all the aspects from step one to the last phases of web and mobile app development with a cloud back end.

DoRunDo is a newly launched visitor management and COVID-19 compliant apps ecosystem. It allows the logging of visitor data in a secure way in the cloud for later retrieval for tracking and tracing purposes, thus serving the full purpose of visitor management. It has been created to simplify the process by removing many functionalities in other apps and by sticking to the minimum functionalities that serve the sharp focus of what's needed. The important aspect is that I have been able to lead the whole project right from ideation to launch successfully and, along the way, coordinated with various skill set team members to get the desired job done.

Education

2020 - 2022

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Kurukshetra University - Kurukshetra, India

2011 - 2012

Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)

XLRI - Xavier School of Management - Jamshedpur, India

1993 - 1996

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Science

Delhi University - Delhi, India

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2021 - PRESENT

Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology | via edX

AUGUST 2021 - PRESENT

Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

Massachusetts Institute of Technology | via edX

DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT

Executive Program in Data and Decision Sciences: ML, AI, and Neural Networks

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Skills

Tools

Jira, Slack

Paradigms

Agile, Kanban, Agile Software Development, Web Architecture, Requirements Analysis, Agile Product Management, Scrum

Platforms

ProductPlan, Magento

Industry Expertise

Telecommunications

Other

Product Strategy, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Feature Prioritization, Feature Analysis, Technical Product Management, Product Management, Technical Project Management, User Stories, Web Applications, Web App Development, Market Fit, Investor Presentations, User Requirements, Go-to-market Strategy, Product Owner, Fintech, VoIP, eCommerce, Agile Delivery, Roadmaps, Mathematics, Science, Computer Science, Programming, Management, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, Market Research & Analysis, Human Resources (HR), Consumer Behavior, Leadership, Data Science, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Python 3, Ideation, Product Roadmaps, Feature Roadmaps, Strategic Planning & Execution, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Mobile Apps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), UI Prototyping, Deployment, QA Testing, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular, Prototyping, Feature Planning, Product Delivery, Strategy Planning, New Products, Partnerships, Partner Management, Business to Business (B2B), Business Development, Digital Marketing, B2B Partnerships, Strategic Partnerships, Customer Analysis, Teamwork, Demo Designs, Pricing Strategy, Software Sales, SaaS, REST APIs, API Integration, Go-to-market Plans, Market Segmentation, Customer Segmentation, APIs, Business Management, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Networking, Probability Theory

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