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Mittul Desai

Product Man | Cofounder, UnCvr | IIT Hyderabad
Bangalore, Karnataka
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mittuled.com
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mittuled@gmail.com
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+91 90333 50869
I am most interested in solving problems that change lives. I bring in my years of programming and management skills to the table with a penchant for clarity. I am passionate and driven to achieve the milestones set forth in the simplest and most elegant manner.
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Work Experience

Leena AI

Head of Product
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Dec 2018 - Current

Leena AI helps enterprises improve their employee experience by providing a single interface for all their HR needs. A single chatbot that integrates with various HR systems and presents information to the employee. In some sense, "Leena is the Siri for employees" is true.

  • Got 300% quarterly growth in revenue by conceptualizing and launching an employee engagement product
  • Reduced the deployment time from 45 days to 25 days through automation and processes leading to 35% increased deal conversion rate
  • Identified key opportunities for product growth by running frugal experiments for the core product.
  • Increased WAU by 28% by launching supporting features on the bot.
  • Led the design revamp for both the dashboard and the bot interface resulting in 30 points increase in NPS score.

Happay - Expense Management Solution for Businesses

Product Manager
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May 2017 - Dec 2018

Happay is a Travel & Expense management solution aimed at SMEs.

  • Spearheaded the Analytics Module to provide the clients with the required information at their fingertips.
  • Worked directly with account managers and clients to understand the needs of the Analytics Module.
  • Modified Sprint planning process which resulted in 12% increase in productivity.
  • Helped bring about an internal product analytics module to understand and track user behaviour. This led to change in the navigation of the product.
  • Worked towards updating and modifying several modules with a client-centric approach to improve usability.

Evangelysis

Cofounder - Product & Analytics
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Oct 2015 - May 2017

Uncvr is a live performance analytics platform that helps live venues align their music offering in line with their customers.

  • Did user research & understood the pain points of the live music industry.
  • Conceptualized & planned the product, prioritized features & built the MVP around it.
  • Did quick iterations & validated early hypotheses and converted 15 sales for the product.
  • Did A/B Testing to reach the most efficient solution for user on-boarding.
  • Came up with the correct set of metrics and tracked them to an increase of 35% in user conversion.

Takshashila College of Engineering & Technology

Assistant Professor
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Jul 2012 - Jun 2014
  • Served on 4 college committees and acted as chair of the Placement Committee.
  • Taught upper-level courses in Distributed Systems and Artificial Intelligence.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

M. Tech. Computer Science
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Jul 2014 - Jun 2016

Emphasis on Data Science.

Head, Placement Cell.

Head, Astronomy & Astrophysics club - Cepheid.

Member, Sci-Tech Council.

B H Gardi College of Engineering & Technology

B. Engg. Computer Science & Engineering
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Jul 2008 - Jun 2012

Vice Chair, IEEE Student Chapter

Vice Chair, CSI Student Chapter.

Head, Placement Cell.

Projects

COMBINED: Community Mining By Integrating on Node and Edge Data

Researcher
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Dec 2014 - Jun 2016

Brought about an innovative solution to solve Community Detection with attributed edges by using the line graph of a graph. Applications in finding disjoint communities in large social graphs.

Skills

  • User Research
  • Market Research
  • New Product Development
  • Prioritization
  • User-centric Process Development
  • Product Roadmap