Amulya Chirala-Sr. Director of Product
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Sr. Director of Product
Zepz
- As part of the Senior Leadership Team, contributed heavily to the product rubric, organisation design and the interview process to ensure we were hiring well, actively performance managing, and providing appropriate career progression.
- Hired and mentored PMs to deliver shared platforms for pay-in and pay-out platforms in ~18 months, processing 100+% of the total group volume with success rates that are 2-12 percentage points higher (based on the corridors) than legacy stacks.
- Added routing functionality on payments to save over $9M/y with no additional user friction. Then worked with vendors to identify another 600K/month between savings or additional revenue via surcharges for expensive cards.
- Supported product due diligence on acquisition targets ranging in size from 2M to 30M annual revenue.
- Scaled the Sendwave product offering from 7 markets in Q3 2020 to over 30 receive markets in 2023 to support volume growth from ~3Bn to ~8Bn annually.
- Built the v1, and then supported scaling of volume forecasting to get to 98%+ forecasting accuracy for major markets (in a volatile FX and macro environment) and consequently lower funding-related outages and better allocation of working capital.
Sr. Product Manager, Autonomous Services
Daimler Mobility Services
- Delivered routing and matching services for self-driving and traditional cars based on their technical capabilities and operating regions. Across 100s of tests, passengers requesting a ride were matched in under 30s.
- Shipped a car-passenger matching service to minimise passenger wait time.
Sr. Product Manager, Blockchain & Financial
OST
OST Platform is a set of unified dashboards, APIs, SDKs, and protocols that any business can use to easily test and deploy their brand currency without requiring in-house blockchain development.
Shipped non-custodial digital wallet applications.
Delivered protocol updates and developed and executed the intellectual property strategy via patent applications and selection of appropriate licenses.
Senior Data Analyst
Addepar
- Worked on the non-traditional data feeds, including international bank feeds and private asset data to automate the updates of investments in excess of $700M.
- Reduced manual interventions from over 2x/week to under 5x/quarter.
Research Ops Associate
Litman Gregory Asset Management
- Focused on attribution analysis and improving in-house data capabilities to help drive better investment decisions.
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Information Technology, and Automotive.
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Experienced in Business Intelligence, Product Development, Strategy, Research and Development, Legal, and Finance.
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Georgia Institute Of Technology
MS, Quantitative and Computational Finance · Quantitative and Computational Finance · Atlanta, United States
Osmania University
B-Eng, Mechanical Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Hyderabad, India
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Amulya is based in Berlin, Germany.
Amulya speaks the following languages: German (Advanced), English (Intermediate).
Amulya has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Amulya has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 5 months. Note that Amulya may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Amulya would be well-suited for roles such as: Sr. Director of Product, Sr. Product Manager, Autonomous Services, Sr. Product Manager, Blockchain & Financial.
Amulya's most recent position is Sr. Director of Product at Zepz.
In recent years, Amulya has worked for Zepz.
Amulya is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance, Information Technology, and Automotive.
Amulya is most experienced in business areas like Business Intelligence, Product Development, and Strategy. Amulya also has some experience in Research and Development, Legal, and Finance.
Amulya has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance.
Amulya has recently worked in business areas like Business Intelligence, Product Development, and Strategy.
Amulya holds a Master in Quantitative and Computational Finance from Georgia Institute Of Technology and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University.
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