Shiva Kumar Ramachandran

Entrepreneur, product manager, founder, CTO @Smartqart

🔥 Startup Founder✔️ ITBusiness Owner💼 C-level ExecutiveCPOCTOAdvisorFounderProduct Consultant✨ Business OwnerQA EngineerProduct Manager

Shiva Kumar Ramachandran is a seasoned entrepreneur and product manager with a proven track record in the tech industry. He is the founder and CTO of Smartqart, a company that specializes in providing innovative digital solutions. His leadership and technical expertise have been instrumental in shaping the strategic direction of the company, resulting in significant growth and success. Ramachandran's strong business acumen, combined with his tech-savvy nature, has enabled him to lead Smartqart in developing advanced, user-friendly products that meet the needs of today's digital consumers. His role as a founder and CTO showcases his ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical development.

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Work Background

PfizerConsultant @ Pfizer USA

Mar. 2017London, England, United Kingdom

Skipzii LimitedFounder, Product Strategist, Product Manager

Nov. 2019 - Jan. 2022United KingdomWorked on the Food ordering and delivery mobile apps from Ideation stage to Goto Market stage Expert in Agile Methodologies scrum and kanban. Experience in coaching teams on Agile Responsible for architecting all the technical aspects of the product(Database, API's, Tracking and much more) Worked with Developers, UX/UI designers, 3rd Party Payment integrators, POS, User Engagement, Google Analytics and other suppliers Responsible for creating wireframes, user interviews, design sprints, user Personas, market research, Road map and all other aspects of Product Management including Go to Market Strategy. Responsible for creating and setting up Email, Social Media marketing campaign Responsible for defining, monitoring and measuring success criteria

SmartQart LimitedFounder, CTO

Nov. 2017 - Nov. 2019Milton Keynes, England, United KingdomSmartQart is a mobile app based retail checkout solution which enables shoppers to securely scan and pay for their purchases and receive in-store offers, provides Identify/Age verification. SmartQart is a one stop app for users to shop with any retailers.

TrainlineSenior Product Manager

Sep. 2016 - Feb. 2017London, England Metropolitan Area

BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITEDProduct Manager

Jun. 2015 - Sep. 2016London, England, United Kingdom

BBC WORLDWIDE LIMITEDJunior Product Manager

Aug. 2013 - Jun. 2015London, England, United Kingdom

BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITEDSoftware Developer In Test

Mar. 2013 - Jul. 2013London, England, United KingdomWorked on Testing of SkyGo platform API testing of SkyGo Platform

British Broadcasting Corporation -Media VillageDeveloper in Test

Oct. 2011 - Mar. 2013London, United KingdomWorked with the Media Playout team to test a variety of media players used across BBC to deliver audio and video content to our online audiences, regardless of platform or device. For the London 2012 Olympics I was involved in testing of the media player for the BBC’s online audience to watch every sport on mobile, tablet, PC or connected device. I was Involved in Manual and Automated testing in BDD and Agile environment. Automation skill include using Ruby, Cucumber, Selenium, Selenium-Grid, Capybara. Automation experience on Android and IOS simulators. Good Experience in testing Flash and HTML5 media players on multi platform and multi browsers. I have contributed towards the infrastructure setup which includes Jenkins, Devices cloud for testing on Multi browser and Multi platforms, Android and IOS simulators.

Akamai TechnologiesSenior QA Engineer

Jan. 2010 - Oct. 2011Worked on Akamai Media Servers to test the various flavours of Media servers such as Flash, Windows, Real and QT Media Servers. I was involved in testing the different components of the CDN Networks so as to enable our customers to distribute their contents across the globe at the least amount of time including testing of failover of media servers in different geographical locations.

Nokia Siemens NetworksExecutive Software Engineer

Jan. 2009 - Jan. 2010BangaloreWe at converged core Add value with our cutting-edge VoIP solutions. Responsible for testing Softswitch functionalities and its features Responsible for testing Media Gateways Responsible for setting up the LAB. Responsible for other team activities

IP Unity CommunicationsSenior QA Engineer

Nov. 2006 - Dec. 2008IPunity works on SIP Application server, Unified Messaging and Media server. I have worked on SIP application server and Unified Messaging. Involved in Testing of Various functionalities of Application server conforming to SIP RFC's. Unified Messaging has various of SIP applications some of the highlights are Video Messaging, Voice Messaging, FAX, Missed call Alert etc..etc..

Huawei TechnologiesSoftware Engineer

May. 2004 - Nov. 2006White Box testing of the Telecom platforms. Testing VoiceXML interpreter an IVR Component along with ASR and TTS. Testing Open Source projects such as Iconv, Spider Monkey and LibXML for its performance on Different operating systems. Writing Stubs using C programing Language and Scripting using TTCN-3 Testing of SIP Stack.