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AKHILA PANYALA

AKHILA PANYALA

MBA Grad, Ex-Product Manager (Seeking Product and Program Manager Roles)
New York,NY

Summary

Experienced and highly determined Product Manager and Technical Lead passionate about developing innovative methods to build digital products. Specializes in leading teams through product design, development, and maintenance, particularly in Financial and e-commerce ecosystems. Comfortable working in fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Founder, Product Manager

CORNELL UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
11.2022 - 05.2023
  • Co-founded an academic startup “EasyShipments,” a recommendation-based customized shipping platform for hyperlocal e-commerce players to solve logistics challenges and achieve delivery times of under an hour
  • Conducted 50 user and industry experts interviews to initiate MVP requirements, build the product roadmap, create features and prioritize
  • Partnered with LaGuardia airport to redesign operations and customer experience
  • Estimated customer impact per day around 5000 users and $2M in revenue
  • Top 5 among 90 projects pitched in Open Studio.

Product Manager, Technical Lead

JP MORGAN CHASE & CO
, India
01.2020 - 02.2022
  • Key experiences: AI-driven personalization platform, Risk and Compliance integration, Payments notification engine,
  • PCI compliance and auditing process
  • Launched a Machine Learning based personalization engine incorporating user history and past activity, handling 10M operations/day and improving communication open rates by 30%
  • Led a team of 7 people to release a new product using modern password-less authentication and security/privacy techniques (OIDC, OAuth, SAML), and scaled the entire product suite (10 applications)
  • Built a compliant and credential-free click-through rates system to track hyperlinks, which was offered as a cloud-based SaaS plug-in to 15+ teams, saving 20% of development time and effort
  • Exceeded the cloud space utilization reduction by 50% across UAT/Production/Dev by automating the deprecation of underutilized services
  • Partnered with Kafka, RabbitMQ messaging teams and onboarded 10+ large projects to adopt messaging systems reducing manual effort of development teams by 2 months and lowering infrastructure cost by 25%.

Technology Analyst (Software Engineer)

JP Morgan Chase & Company
07.2017 - 12.2019
  • Initiated a new Desktop Notifications Platform to extensively send high-priority messages such as Covid notifications, building evacuations, increasing high-priority communication response efficiency by 30%
  • Iterated and reengineered the Notifications platform to support new message types by observing data analytics trends, making it compatible with latest messaging tools like Slack, Email etc
  • Enabled SRE and operations teams to enhance team’s technical and scripting acumen, helping to automate 60% of deployments, internal tools usage and disaster recovery processes
  • Partnered with senior VPs, solution architects, sales, and finance teams to redesign existing communication systems and formulate a solution to increase availability from 90% to 99%, and without manual intervention

Education

MBA - Strategy & Product Management

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, JOHNSON CORNELL TECH NYC
New York, NY
05.2022 - 05.2023

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering

G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology And Science
Hyderabad, India
08.2013 - 05.2017

Skills

Wireframing, Data Analysis (SQL/No-SQL, Python),Agile Development, Product Strategy, Roadmap Building, Product Development And Iteration, Software Engineering (NET), User Testing, A/B Testing

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Interests

EdTech, Mentoring Students (Helped10 students receive admits into top schools), Non-Profit Volunteering

Timeline

Founder, Product Manager

CORNELL UNIVERSITY
11.2022 - 05.2023

MBA - Strategy & Product Management

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, JOHNSON CORNELL TECH NYC
05.2022 - 05.2023

Product Manager, Technical Lead

JP MORGAN CHASE & CO
01.2020 - 02.2022

Technology Analyst (Software Engineer)

JP Morgan Chase & Company
07.2017 - 12.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering

G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology And Science
08.2013 - 05.2017

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