Ahmad Maruf
San Jose,NM
Summary
Product Manager with over a decade of experience in petabyte-scale enterprise cloud, data, and ML/AI solutions. Proven track record in managing products throughout their lifecycle – conducting market research, prioritizing customer requirements and feedback, and shaping product vision, collaborating closely with engineering, design, and marketing teams, and successfully delivering winning products. Spearheaded the development of pioneering products, led complex and highly scalable cloud and software projects, and effectively managed cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Deep expertise in cloud technologies, AI/autonomous systems, and data solutions, and well-equipped to contribute to cutting-edge cloud compute platforms. Motivated by a keen interest in people and sustainable product development, with a mission to harness strategic vision and technical acumen to deliver state-of-the-art cloud-based autonomous systems, advancing society through a fusion of human ingenuity and technological breakthroughs. Complemented by an MBA and Agile certifications, uniquely position me for a Senior Product Manager / Senior Technical Product Manager role.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Product Manager
Verizon IoT Intelligence
03.2021 - Current
- Product Portfolio includes: Autonomous Driver System (V2X, Intelligent Messaging Platform); ThingSpace Intelligence (Usage-based and Network Anomaly Detection); and GridWide Analytics (Intelligent Energy Solutions)
- Currently, leading the ThingSpace Intelligent Messaging Platform (IMP) as a Technical Product Manager for the automotive tech sector, overseeing a team of 17 engineers and designers across 4 geo-locations
- Responsibilities include: working closely with engineering product marketing managers, stakeholders, and engineers to ensure product roadmap alignment; stakeholder management; partner and vendor integration; addressing technical and project roadblocks; developing comprehensive product roadmaps, guiding cross-functional teams toward shared objectives; optimizing software performance with rigorous testing protocols; delivering high-quality technical documentation to support sales, training, and client implementations.
- Responsibilities encompassed product ideation, daily scrum, customer interfacing, and timely delivery.
- Improved product functionality by conducting thorough market research and competitor analysis.
- Streamlined product development processes for faster release cycles and better user experience.
- Enhanced team collaboration, implementing agile methodologies for more effective project management.
- Ensured timely delivery of products by proactively identifying risks and mitigating potential roadblocks in the development process.
- Collaborated extensively with cross-functional teams to drive seamless integration efforts for end-to-end system optimization.
Founder & CEO
Dishes Of Joy
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Launched a homemade food marketplace and food-delivery service ("Dishes of Joy") that connects homemakers with food-lovers, allowing people to enjoy homemade dishes not found in the typical restaurant chains.
- Co-founded with 4 other team members (bootstrapped) with a goal to revive authentic, traditional, specialty cuisines by empowering homemakers.
- Piloted in 2 cities (San Jose, USA and Dubai, UAE), receiving 250+ orders within a week and received pre-seed commitments from two angel investors.
Principal Software Engineer
Verizon IoT Insights And Smart Communities
11.2019 - 02.2021
- Managed a team of ~10 engineers as TPM and TPO for the ThingSpace ISP, delivering a scalable IoT Insights Platform.
- Responsibilities included: sprint management, requirement alignment, and ensuring on-time delivery.
- Led end-to-end productization and productionization of various projects, including TTS vendor integration and automotive data lake solutions for public-private partnerships.
- Responsibilities encompassed: product ideation, daily scrum, customer interfacing, and timely delivery.
Senior Cloud Software Engineer
Intel Corporation
06.2017 - 08.2019
- Led a 15-member team in developing a private cloud platform for BMW's Autonomous Cars, enabling efficient data management, analytics, AI, and simulation
- Implemented custom, cost-effective data ingestion and archival solutions (1.5 PB/day, 130+ PB in total) to address scalability and cost-efficiency challenges faced by OEMs with public cloud providers
- Led a 5-member team to develop an API-based solution for retrieving and reprocessing automotive raw images and videos, enhancing environment perception by 30% and improving driving policies
- Designed and implemented RESTful microservices optimized for Intel software, hardware, and algorithmic advancements to enhance object detections and automated labeling.
- Improved software performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the code.
- Enhanced user experience with intuitive interface design and responsive web applications.
Big Data and Capability Engineer
Intel Corporation
06.2015 - 05.2017
- Spearheaded end-to-end enterprise software and web app development, optimizing productivity and reducing operational costs by 30%
- Utilized Cloudera Hadoop Distribution and various analytics tools to clean, analyze, and streamline big data, creating ETL pipelines for predictive analysis and enhancing daily business operations
- Administered Tableau servers, aiding over 400 internal users in crafting dashboards, financial reports, and market insights
- Developed web applications using cutting-edge technologies like AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and Intel's custom libraries within the Advanced Data Visualization and Analytics Platform.
- Optimized engineering processes by implementing innovative solutions and streamlining workflow.
- Reduced project completion time with efficient resource allocation and effective communication strategies.
Application Developer/Data Analyst
Columbia Business School
04.2014 - 05.2015
- As an Application Developer and a Data Analyst, modernized Columbia Business School's website by migrating to Drupal (away from PHP), and created more user-friendly, interactive, and custom experiences for end users, resulting in 25% increase in website performance.
Software Engineer
PulsePoint
06.2013 - 03.2014
- Improved the accuracy of the executive dashboards of an Advertisement Technology Firm on Wall Street by 40% by transforming static graphs of clients' data from Google Charts to Giraffe, a highly scalable real-time graphing dashboard of Graphite.
Education
MBA - Innovation And Entrepreneurship
HEC Paris
Paris, France01.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Columbia University
New York, NY01.2013
Skills
- Product Management: Vendor Relationship Management, Stakeholder Communication, Market Research and Analysis, Product Requirements Document (PRD), Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Design Sprints, Product Launch/Go-to-market Strategy, Stakeholder Management, EBITDA, Profit & Loss statements, Digital & Social Media Marketing
- Project Management: Project Planning and Scheduling, Budgeting and Financial Management, Risk Management, Scope and Requirement Management, Agile Scrum, Conflict Resolution, Quality Management, Reporting, Documentation and Record Keeping, Client Relationship Management, etc
- Prototyping/Wireframing: Figma, Canva, Sketch, Miro, FigJam, InVision Studio
- Visualization: Tableau, Knowi, Google Charts, Alteryx, Looker, Press, Keynote
- Languages: Python, Java, Scala, Bash, SQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS
- Software Technologies: AWS cloud ecosystem technologies (Sagemaker, EC2, Lambda, Kinesis, Aurora, S3, etc), Apache Spark/Hadoop, Kafka, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, RESTful Microservices/APIs, TensorFlow, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaaS), etc
- Databases: SQL, and NoSQL (DynamoDb, MongoDb, etc)
- Scrum/XP Tools: Jira, Confluence, Trello, SmartSheet
Websites
Certification
- Amazon Web Services, AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty, 2023
- Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), 2022
- HEC Paris, Specialization in Managing Innovation and Design Thinking, 2021
- Udacity, Predictive Analytics for Business Nanodegree, 2020
- Udacity, Product Manager Nanodegree, 2020
- Udacity, Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, 2018
Timeline
Founder & CEO
Dishes Of Joy
01.2022 - 12.2022
Technical Product Manager
Verizon IoT Intelligence
03.2021 - Current
Principal Software Engineer
Verizon IoT Insights And Smart Communities
11.2019 - 02.2021
Senior Cloud Software Engineer
Intel Corporation
06.2017 - 08.2019
Big Data and Capability Engineer
Intel Corporation
06.2015 - 05.2017
Application Developer/Data Analyst
Columbia Business School
04.2014 - 05.2015
Software Engineer
PulsePoint
06.2013 - 03.2014
MBA - Innovation And Entrepreneurship
HEC Paris
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Columbia University