PRAVEEN KUMAR REDDY
Bengaluru
Summary
Product Manager with over 13 years of experience in the airline industry, specializing in offers, orders, and next-generation pricing capabilities. Proven track record as a Lead Technical Product Owner, demonstrating a commitment to driving innovation in dynamic pricing, Continuous Pricing, merchandising, and NDC integrations. Expertise in aligning product strategy with technical execution while leading teams and modernizing legacy systems through cloud-native, containerized architectures. Passionate about leveraging technology to enhance customer experiences and optimize operational efficiency.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LEAD TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER II / Product Manager
Delta Airlines
08.2022 - Current
- Spearheaded the delivery of advanced offers and continuous pricing systems aligned with NDC and Kayak integrations, enhancing revenue optimization.
- Led development and optimization of flight offers, orders, and retailing platforms, driving seamless end-to-end customer shopping experiences.
- Possess in-depth expertise in the flight offers ecosystem, including offer and order engines, ensuring compliance with industry standards and scalability across global markets.
- Spearheaded initiatives in NDC adoption, Merchandising 2.0, Continuous Pricing, Dynamic Pricing, and Corporate Airline Operations, enabling modern retailing capabilities and improved revenue management.
- Championed adoption of AI-driven solutions to streamline product and engineering processes, improving efficiency and scalability.
- Release Management Optimization: Leveraged AI models to predict deployment risks, automate regression checks, and reduce release cycle times.
- FinOps Transformation: Applied AI to monitor cloud spend patterns, optimize resource allocation, and reduce operational costs while maintaining performance.
- Analyzed customer feedback to identify areas for improvement.
- Led a team of 8 engineers and product analysts through a successful modernization initiative, transitioning legacy systems to containerized microservices in AWS.
- Designed and built scalable microservices in Java, incorporating real-time monitoring using Grafana, Dynatrace, and Sumo Logic.
- Drove adoption of emerging technologies including AI copilots and Amazon Q to accelerate feature delivery and developer productivity.
- Managed release and change management processes with a strong focus on test performance planning and security compliance.
SAFE PRODUCT OWNER
Amadeus Labs
01.2018 - 07.2022
- Understands product strategy, market, industry, and client goals for E-Retail products.
- Contributes to prioritization discussions with Product Managers and Breaking down Features from Product Management into small, deliverable user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Worked with Product Management team and Solution Architect to ensure scope alignment.
- Worked with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories.
- Contribute to feature prioritization discussions with Product Management team.
- Prioritize a team's iteration backlog of user stories.
- Articulates product vision and user stories in a clearly understandable manner to development teams.
- Manages backlog of user stories for one or more products or components - understands end-to-end business processes.
- Establishes user story acceptance criteria, accepts user stories, refines stories with Scrum teams.
- Participates in Iteration planning and Program Increment Planning activities with development scrum teams.
- Preparation of objectives for PI planning and presenting it to BO's and RTE's.
- Good negotiation skills for better BV's with BO's.
- Monitors development progress and provides updates to stakeholders, as requested.
MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF
Amadeus Labs
04.2016 - 12.2018
SR. QA ENGINEER
Amadeus Labs
03.2014 - 03.2016
SR. QA ENGINEER
Photon Infotech
03.2012 - 03.2014
Education
STRATEGIC PRODUCT MANAGEMENT -
Indian Institutes of Management
05.2025
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Anna University
06.2010
Skills
- Microservices architecture
- Java application design
- Product strategy development
- Experience with Dynatrace
- Skilled in SumoLogic data visualization
- AWS platform experience
- Grafana performance monitoring
- Modernization techniques
- Co-pilot
- Amazon Q
- Product Backlog Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- User Acceptance Testing
- Release Planning
- Team Leadership
- Adaptability
- Market Research
- Stakeholder Engagement
- GTM Strategies
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Safe Agile
- Product Promotion
- Pricing Strategies
- Design thinking
- Competitive analysis
- Wireframing and prototyping
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Program development
- Roadmap development
Accomplishments
- Strategic Product Leadership
- Successfully completed Strategic Product Management program at IIM, strengthening expertise in product vision, market positioning, and stakeholder alignment.
- Earned AWS Certification, demonstrating cloud fluency and ability to drive scalable, AI/ML-enabled product solutions.
- Translated advanced product management frameworks into actionable strategies for airline retailing and digital commerce platforms. AI/Innovation Initiatives
- Conducted organization-wide hackathons to accelerate AI adoption, enabling teams to prototype solutions for day-to-day operational challenges.
- Championed AI-driven improvements in release management, FinOps, and DevOps, reducing cycle times, optimizing cloud spend, and enhancing system reliability Industry Impact (Airline & Tech Perspective)
- Spearheaded initiatives in NDC, Merchandising 2.0, Continuous Pricing, Dynamic Pricing, and Corporate Airline Operations, aligning product strategy with evolving industry standards.
- Delivered personalization and dynamic offer capabilities, improving conversion rates and customer satisfaction in airline shopping flows.
Certification
- Safe Product Owner
- Safe Agilist
- CSM
- AWS Technical Essentials
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Product Strategy & Ownership
- Offers & Orders, NDC, Dynamic Pricing, Continuos Pricing, Kayak, Fliggy, xCheck
- Microservices & AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- Java Development & API Design
- Observability: Dynatrace, Grafana, Sumo Logic
- AI Tool Integration (e.g., Copilot, Amazon Q)
- Release & Change Management
- Performance Engineering & Security Compliance
- Agile Leadership & Cross-Functional Team Management
Timeline
LEAD TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER II / Product Manager
Delta Airlines
08.2022 - Current
SAFE PRODUCT OWNER
Amadeus Labs
01.2018 - 07.2022
MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF
Amadeus Labs
04.2016 - 12.2018
SR. QA ENGINEER
Amadeus Labs
03.2014 - 03.2016
SR. QA ENGINEER
Photon Infotech
03.2012 - 03.2014
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Anna University
STRATEGIC PRODUCT MANAGEMENT -
Indian Institutes of Management