Akshat Bordia

About

Product Manager with 8 years across product management and data engineering, spanning B2B SaaS, AdTech, and FinOps. Owns full product lifecycle (discovery, PRDs, launch, go-to-market, and adoption). Track record of taking products from zero/broken to revenue impact: scaled an ad exchange platform past $3M monthly revenue, drove a seed-stage pivot that tripled customers, and built pricing and billing from scratch with meaningful latency, monetization, and adoption improvements. Hands-on with SQL/Python, instrumentation, and statistical/forecasting models, including LLM/agent tooling for rapid prototyping and analysis.

Experience

• Product Manager · Verve09-01-2024 – 03-01-2026

  Programmatic ad exchange (SSP). Owned the PMP Deal Curation Portal end to end: creation, forecasting, troubleshooting, governance. • Scaled the platform past $3M in monthly revenue within a year of GA by rebuilding a broken deal portal: triaged 20+ critical defects across 3 ad server stacks, standardized targeting taxonomy to OpenRTB 2.6, and increased monthly deal creation 40x (from ~40 to ~1,600 deals), with growth accelerating after GA, while onboarding the platform's first external agency and DSP partners • Cut forecasting latency from ~60 seconds to near real time and replaced manual avails analysis that took a full day by designing the statistical forecast model behind Deal Planner 2.0 (floor price distributions, win rate curves, clearing price simulation) • Made deal debugging self-serve for operations instead of an engineering escalation by defining the exchange's six stage bid funnel with a complete drop reason taxonomy and shipping a 24 hour real time troubleshooting tool • Acted as the voice of the user: ran 10+ structured interviews with AdOps power users and external buyers, embedding them in every grooming cycle to validate specs before engineering work began

• Product Lead · Amnic10-01-2022 – 06-01-2024

  Seed stage FinOps / cloud cost management SaaS. First PM; owned analytics product, data platform, pricing and billing. • Tripled the customer base (7 to 21, 42% trial conversion) and roughly doubled revenue by driving the company pivot from DevOps to cloud cost intelligence; co-conducted 20+ sales calls and provided pre and post sales support to close and retain enterprise accounts • Cut query latency 70% and unlocked 7 downstream features (6 shipped in one sprint) by architecting a FOCUS standard cost data schema unifying AWS, GCP, Azure and Snowflake billing exports • Built monetization from scratch, automating the full billing lifecycle, saving finance 8 to 10 hours a week and cutting DSO by 7 to 10 days: metered pricing, three tier packaging with a 90 day trial, and a build vs buy that selected Chargebee at ~25% lower fees

• Associate Product Manager · Joveo05-01-2021 – 09-01-2022

  Recruitment marketing AdTech. Owned Google and Facebook ad channels. • Grew channel MRR 50% and cut SLA time 66% by converting 200+ JIRA tickets and 9 user interviews into a themed quarterly roadmap and shipping bulk posting and ad optimization features • Cut client turnaround time 60% by launching a Google for Jobs channel through partner integration: ran the build vs buy, set up E2E onboarding, and trained 5 CSMs

• Software Engineer · HSBC07-01-2018 – 05-01-2021

  • Cut data delivery SLA from 3 weeks to 0.5 week for 17+ global teams by leading a team of 6 building a Kafka and Python pipeline migrating real time marketing data from on premise Teradata to Google BigQuery

Education

• BITS PilaniDual Degree (M.Sc. + B.E.), M.Sc. Biological Sciences + B.E. Civil Engineering (dual degree)

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