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Abhisht Mishra

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Strategic and results-driven Product Owner with a background in software development. Proven ability to bridge technical expertise with a keen understanding of market dynamics to drive the successful development and launch of products. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and delivering solutions that meet both user needs and business objectives. Strongly passionate about building products that users love

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Product Owner, Calculators and Tools

Westpac Banking Corporation
Sydney
05.2022 - 02.2024
  • Collaborated with stakeholders, built, and executed 2-year product roadmap for Home Loan calculators delivering 40+ calculators across all brands which continue to serve 250K unique customers every month
  • Introduced 'Quick quote' feature for calculators enabling customers to get a quote and have this information passed on to a lender
  • 80% of the customers interacting with this flow make it to the end which resulted into sales spike by 22%
  • Analyzed user research data, partnered with UX team and reengineered local storage capability to strategically populate user-entered data across multiple tools to provide a seamless user experience growing user engagement by 17%
  • Revamped the vision and roadmap for Repayment calculator based on customer research studies and competitive analysis, increasing the page visits by 28%
  • Managed product launches, coordinated with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure successful product rollout and adoption
  • Identified minimum features required to validate assumptions and gather feedback through MVPs.

Technical Lead, Financial Hardship

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Westpac)
Sydney
03.2021 - 04.2022
  • Lead a 5 member team to deliver a COVID relief application offering financial relief packages on home and personal loans
  • Lead the development of a front-end framework on ReactJS which allowed us to release features every fortnight
  • Collaborated with architects and senior engineers to define technical architecture and design solutions that meet business requirements and scalability needs
  • Participated in project planning, estimation, and prioritization of tech and functional tasks and deliverables
  • Collaborated with project managers, product owners, and stakeholders to define project requirements, scope and timelines
  • Monitored project progress, identified risks, managed inter-team dependencies, and implemented mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery
  • Coordinated release activities with cross-functional teams, including development, quality assurance, operations and support.

Technical Lead Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Westpac)
Sydney
09.2014 - 02.2021
  • Organized and facilitated key scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Sprint retrospectives
  • Spearheaded a 12 member team to build a UI framework aiming to create consistent, efficient, scalable and visually appealing user interfaces which led to reduction of development efforts by 40%
  • Designed and developed an internal application for certificate management reducing financial and functional dependency on external provider
  • Reengineered certificate lifecycle flows by developing Interactive Customer dashboard, reducing the turnaround time from 15 minutes to 5 minutes
  • Lead a 10 member team to migrate legacy applications into new UI framework
  • Mentored 10 new members in the team, created project on-boarding documents for them to refer.

Front-end Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (HDFC Bank)
Pune (India)
01.2012 - 08.2014
  • Using JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as React and Angular to develop dynamic and interactive user interfaces, including features such as animations, transitions, and form validation
  • Developed a reusable component library which helped in optimizing development efforts by 25%
  • Ensured that websites and applications comply with web accessibility standards, such as WCAG
  • Writing unit tests and integration tests to validate front-end code and ensure its correctness and reliability
  • Ensuring cross-browser compatibility by testing and debugging websites and applications on different web browsers.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering: Information Technology -

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
05.2011

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Product Road Mapping
  • Customer Engagement
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Design Thinking
  • Technical Acumen
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Agile Methodology
  • Web Development
  • Figma
  • Adobe Experience Manager
  • InVision
  • JIRA
  • Adobe Analytics
  • RESTful Web Services
  • Confluence
  • ReactJS
  • Javascript

Timeline

Technical Product Owner, Calculators and Tools

Westpac Banking Corporation
05.2022 - 02.2024

Technical Lead, Financial Hardship

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Westpac)
03.2021 - 04.2022

Technical Lead Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Westpac)
09.2014 - 02.2021

Front-end Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (HDFC Bank)
01.2012 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Engineering: Information Technology -

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Abhisht Mishra