Pranav Palepu
Hyderabad, India
About
I love working on exciting new ideas. I have experience in product, growth & design. I'm a contributor at SuperteamDAO and have worked as a Product Designer at Solana India and Firedrops by Flipkart. I also head the Product Innovation Team at Innovation Garage.
Contact
Education
• Recipient of the Institute Merit Scholarship (awarded to the top 3% of students on campus) during all my years of study so far.
• Head – Product Innovation Team, Innovation Garage
(July 2022 - Present)
• Executive Member – Start-up Cell, Innovation Garage
(September 2021 - July 2022)
• Senior Associate – Business Club
(January 2021 - April 2022)
Work Experience
• Solana Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to growth and security of the Solana Network.
• Worked on several initiatives that were focused on developer onboarding onto the Solana ecosystem.
• Collaborated closely with SuperteamDAO as an independent contributor on flagship projects like Campus Connect and Build Station.
I contribute to some of the interesting projects at Superteam, one of India's largest PoW-based DAOs.
• FireDrops, an NFT marketplace is Flipkart’s first web3 product.
• Was a part of 3-member product design team that designed v1 and v2 of the product.
• 10,000+ users onboarded onto the platform in the first 4 hours of going live.
• Half a million custodial wallets created.
• Was a crucial member in designing the DLS that would go on to define the product design of future web3 products of Flipkart.
• The Product Folks(TPF) is India’s Largest Product Community. It is a community of PMs and enthusiasts who are passionate about making an impact and helping everyone grow together.
• Led Product Design for building Ally, Insurjo & other flagship projects.
• Standardised the design language and designed a Notion workflow to streamline the product design process; boosted productivity by 30%.
• Expresso is a Gen Z social community platform that aims to provide a fun medium for campus chit-chat.
• Brainstormed new features and implemented various user acquisition strategies; acquired 5,000 new users in 2 weeks.
• Analysed retention metrics and managed to maintain Day 7 retention rates substantially higher than industry standards alongside growth in users.
Side Projects
• Ink Dots is an ML-based face recognition software for tracking attendance in schools.
• We automate the otherwise menial job, making it easier for teachers to maintain attendance in an organized fashion and let institutes and higher-level education governing bodies access this data to corroborate for various schemes and scholarships.
• MetaValley is a metaverse with play to earn and learn model aimed to teach entrepreneurship in a hands-on fun experience.
• We launched our initial pilot to a small set of audience, but failed to get traction and user growth.
Volunteering
Innovation Garage is an MoE-approved incubation center that strives to promote innovations that have a direct impact on society, We do this by providing a platform for young and passionate innovators to incubate their startups and assist them at every step.
At Product Innovation Team, we help young startups and projects bring their idea to fruition by guiding them through the path and providing necessary resources.