Ajay Kasthala

Ajay Kasthala

Product Enthusiast in Hyderabad, India

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Product Owner - Associate at EliX9
Hyderabad, Telangana ,India
  • Conducted research, interviews, and analysis to align product strategy with business goals.

  • Managed the backlog, refined requirements, and collaborated with teams to deliver product releases.

  • Planned and coordinated releases, defining scope, timelines, and prioritizing features.

  • Facilitated stakeholder communication, conducted demos, and iterated on features based on feedback.

  • Worked with QA and UX/UI teams, analyzed data, and prioritized improvements for product quality.

2023 — 2024
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Recognised as one of the Top Fellows from the Product Manager Fellowship

  • Gained deep understanding of the end-to-end product development process, from ideation and concept development to market launch and post-launch maintenance.

  • Created product prototypes to help visualize and validate product concepts.

  • Engaged in two significant projects, each focused on distinct aspects and functionalities of the product.

2022 — 2023
Senior Consultant - Product Engineering at CloudPlinth
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to implement essential product features and enhance overall product functionality.

  • Proactively identified and addressed concerns raised by various stakeholders, offering detailed insights into how challenges were mitigated.

  • Contributed to shaping the product roadmap, prioritizing feature requests, defining milestones, and achieving key product objectives.

2021 — 2022
Senior Software Engineer at Aspire Systems
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Worked with stakeholders to understand their needs to design and implement Salesforce solutions.

  • Mentored and trained a team of 4 interns, improved the training plan and led initiatives for their continuous learning.

  • Worked in the BFSI domain and collaborated with an international financial services company to integrate their APIs seamlessly into the client’s product.

2019 — 2021
Software Engineer at Aspire Systems
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Developed and maintained features, performed end-to-end testing and issue resolution, ensured quality and reliability throughout development and post-implementation.

  • Delivered and shipped user-centric features to enhance and improve the overall user experience

2018 — 2020
Head - Finance at IAESTE India LC
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Led, managed and supervised all the financial aspects of the International Organization.

  • Protected the monetary assets of the organization through the maintenance and development of a systematic process for financial control and review.

  • Provided accurate, timely, and meaningful financial statistics and information.

2019 — 2019
Head Treasurer at Association of Computer Engineers
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Led and contributed to the finance portfolio of the organization by providing accurate, timely, and meaningful financial statistics and information.

  • Designed and implemented an ecosystem for seamless collaboration among cross-functional teams. Led and mentored a team of 6 coordinators, to equip them with the organization’s operations and workflows.

2018 — 2019
Joint Treasurer at Association of Computer Engineers
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Juggled between different portfolios of the organization.
    Controlled & monitored the overall budgeting of the organization.

  • Made recommendations to the committee to market the events on a larger scale.

  • Coordinated with multiple portfolios, managed diverse operations and ensured seamless collaboration between teams.

2018 — 2018
Coordinator - Finance at IAESTE India LC
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu , India
  • Monitored and reviewed key financial transactions, assessing financial status, budgeting analysis, prioritized and communicated needs, implemented certain changes to aid in the organization’s smooth functioning and provided valuable insights, financial recommendations.

  • Got trained in various aspects of finance portfolio operations, and acquired knowledge in implementing tasks seamlessly and efficiently.

Projects

2024
  • Developed a prototype app, added four features to help the customers do well with their money.

  • It helps the users to wisely manage their by educating them about the world of finance.

2024
  • Developed a prototype and a detailed feature to help increase user reviews on the IMDb platform.

  • It is a reddit-like discussion platform and engagement forum dedicated exclusively to movie goers and reviewers.

2023
  • Developed a social media platform for Generative Images using OpenAI.

  • Built frontend for the users to give prompts for image generation, and used OpenAI’s API, and connected it with DALL-E’s image generation AI machine.

  • Built a viewing gallery of all the images which the users have shared with the community.

2023
  • Implemented a tool to generate customizable shirt designs that will cater to the users imagination and allows them to tailor product to precisely match their preference using the generative AI image tool

Education

2016 — 2020
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India