Wonderful · Indian School of Business
I'm a Product Manager with 9 years of experience spanning product management, go to market, strategy and software dev. I currently work with HackerRank as a Principal Product Manager, building AI-first solutions to tackle the great GenAI shift that's disrupting daily dev workflows. In the past, I worked with BrowserStack, I've led product building, go-to-market and more. I've worked on building 0 to 1 products and taking them from concept to revenue, and also taken products from 10 -> 100 I've also been a software developer, giving me a solid foundation in tech. Stuff I do outside of work: Blogging - www.vigneshnayagam.com I've built a fun tool for cricket fans (50K+ peak DAU) - www.crickonomics.com Music: Singer/songwriter/producer with 500K+ streams - www.youtube.com/vigneshnayagam
AI-first everything. Leading multiple workstreams at HackerRank. Building AI agents, products and rediscovering the way PM-ing is done in a post Claude Code era.
Over a 5.5 year stint at BrowserStack, I had the opportunity to lead multiple strategic initiatives and scale products from low $XX millions to $XXX millions and also do successful 0-1 product launches. Some of the highlights include: - Built BrowserStack Test Observability a 0-1 product, taking a stab at creating the next generation of Test Debugging, Monitoring and Reporting. Responsible for revenue growth, product strategy and roadmap, AI features, SDKs, integrations, and more. This eventually became the platform layer that integrated multiple BrowserStack products together for an end-to-end testing workflow. - Recognized in the CEO's Hall of Fame (top 1% of 1000+ employees) for exceptional contributions to product strategy and execution. - Drove outbound product & marketing initiatives for two core products - contributed to the doubling of product revenue over 2 years. Identified key areas for investment to ramp growth for what were otherwise mature products. Ran competitive intelligence and war rooms. Developed core product positioning, messaging, specialized sales assets and more. - Worked on strategic projects to shape BrowserStack's product vision. Identified opportunities to expand, acquire or develop business lines.
Microsoft India PM Challenge 2019
Technology Consultant in the Deloitte Digital practice (now known as Customer & Marketing) with a key focus on e-commerce and retail clients. Key Engagement - DevOps and Infrastructure Lead for a US-based luxury jewelry designer: • Helped plan and execute a multi-country digital transformation project by managing and working with multiple engineering, QA and vendor teams across 3 continents. •Implemented CI pipelines to automate and scale deployment of code and tests, saving over 2000 man-hours yearly, and reducing time-to-market by a week (25% reduction). • Led a performance optimization sub-project to improve application performance by over 90%. • Managed a stack of over 30 different application servers/services.