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About

Hi, I'm Arya.

Product Manager with four years across enterprise digital transformation, B2B marketplaces, and consumer streaming.

I have shipped products in India, Norway, and the United States, most recently leading PMO infrastructure for a five-year, $1B+ digital transformation program at American Water. Before that, I ran product across a European B2B marketplace at Zeproc AS, launched a kids streaming product from 0 to 50K downloads at BornSmart, and rescued a stalled Magento migration for MonotaRO in Japan.

I hold a PMP certification and am completing an MS in Information Systems (Data Science) at Drexel University. I am based in Philadelphia, hiring my next favourite team, and never far from a Jira board.

Get in touch → LinkedIn ↗ See the work

Credentials

On paper, in practice.

2024 — 26

MS, Information Systems (Data Science)

Drexel University · Philadelphia
GPA 4.00 / 4.00
Sept 2025

Project Management Professional (PMP®)

Project Management Institute
+ SVPG Product Operating Model Training
2017 — 21

B.Tech, Computer Science

NMIMS University · Mumbai, India
Training

Product Operating Model

Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG)

How I work

Operating principles.

Reusable across enterprise, marketplace, and consumer. Tested on three continents.

  • Write down the decision, not the meeting.

    Acceptance criteria, RAID entries, and decision logs travel further than slide decks. Whatever is not written down gets lost in translation, especially across timezones.

  • Adoption is a launch, not a memo.

    Whether the user is an executive sponsor or a kid watching a show, the same rules apply: clear value, simple onboarding, real feedback.

  • Ship less, ship safer, document more.

    Especially in kids products, B2B platforms, and anything with a long compliance tail. Trust compounds; bugs compound faster.

  • Build the dashboard before you need it.

    The fastest way to change executive behaviour is to put real numbers in front of them. Power BI on Jira is one of the most underrated PM moves of the decade.

  • AI agents are cost cutters, not party tricks.

    The agents I ship target a repetitive, expensive workflow with a measurable saving. Otherwise it is just a demo.

Off the clock

I referee squash.

Coordinated and refereed five matches at the Drexel intramural squash tournaments. Same fundamentals as program delivery: clear rules, fast feedback, no escape from the scoreboard.

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Matches refereed
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Continents lived & worked
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Concurrent workstreams
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