Srinivas Vedantam

About

Product leader with 25+ years of progressive experience spanning software development, delivery, and executive product leadership, culminating as Head of Product for AI/ML & platform ventures and senior roles across enterprise cloud transformation. Deep technical grounding enables informed build-vs-buy decisions, compliance-aware AI/GenAI product strategy, and governance-first programme delivery across multi-country teams. Experienced across Enterprise SaaS, AI/ML/GenAI, cloud platforms, ecommerce, and BFSI/travel/logistics/manufacturing/healthcare domains, with a board-level governance lens supported by MCA Board Certification.

Experience

• Head of Product — AI/ML & Platform Ventures · Strategic Product Consulting | Portfolio of AI/ML Ventures2023

  Led product strategy across three simultaneous AI/ML ventures: a GenAI health product, an LLM-powered document intelligence platform for legal and tax workflows, and a drone technology venture — operating as de facto Head of Product across all three. • Owned AI model selection decisions — evaluating OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source LLMs against cost, latency, accuracy, and compliance constraints — applying structured build-vs-buy frameworks to real commercial trade-offs. • Designed LLM quality and evaluation frameworks for compliance-sensitive contexts: hallucination mitigation, human review thresholds, and user trust mechanisms — before any customer-facing deployment. • Reduced discovery cycle time by 30% through a standardised framework deployed across all three ventures; shaped pricing architecture and packaging strategy informing investor materials.

• Senior Product Manager — Cloud & AI/ML Platforms · Searce Co-Sourcing Pvt. Ltd.05-01-2022 – 04-01-2023

  Owned product strategy and delivery governance for 20+ enterprise cloud transformation and AI/ML programmes serving Fortune 500 clients across finance, technology, manufacturing, and crypto in three countries. • Led 100+ professionals — engineers, data scientists, and customer success managers — across India, US, and Europe, maintaining 95%+ on-time delivery across 8+ time zones. • Directed cloud infrastructure migrations (on-prem to AWS/GCP, Azure to GCP) and Oracle-to-BigQuery data migrations — engaging directly with engineering on schema design and query performance, not merely programme administration. • Improved programme predictability by 30% through governance frameworks that reduced executive escalations and provided commercial teams with reliable delivery visibility.

• Senior Product Manager — Platform Development · IFI Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd.09-01-2021 – 04-01-2022

  Led product strategy for a Microsoft-ecosystem web and mobile portfolio with simultaneous launches in the UK and across multiple Indian cities from a single cross-functional team. • Achieved 40% uplift in user engagement through structured discovery — user personas, journey maps, and feedback loops driving every feature decision; reduced development rework by 25% through disciplined prioritisation. • Managed dual-geography delivery with independent stakeholder management, localised product requirements, and coordinated engineering — delivering 35% improvement in post-launch adoption.

• Product Manager — AI/ML & IoT Transformation · Colosseum Group09-01-2018 – 02-01-2021

  Defined product vision and strategy for an AI/IoT product portfolio in enterprise manufacturing, working directly with data scientists and ML engineers on Big Data, Python, ML, Tableau, Power BI, and Angular JS products. • Delivered 5+ major AI/ML and IoT products — including a predictive maintenance solution that achieved sustained commercial adoption and recurring revenue within its first year of operation. • Built a replicable product management framework covering discovery, roadmapping, governance, and launch — adopted as standard practice across 40+ subsequent projects organisation-wide. • Improved client operational efficiency by 25% through ML model integration embedded directly into product workflows, engaging data science teams on model selection and feature engineering trade-offs.

• IT Manager & Product Lead · Inndus Institutional Marketing Pvt. Ltd.03-01-2012 – 08-01-2018

  • Led a 12-person product and technology team across IT operations, product sales strategy, market trend analysis, and data intelligence — acting as strategic business partner to senior leadership over six years. • Built an analytical reporting system transforming raw data into structured management reporting; ran a parallel freelance practice (2012–2014) as sole client contact, solution architect, and delivery lead across mobile, ecommerce, and SharePoint projects.

• Practising Developer / Technical Lead / Business Analyst (career progression) · WNS Global Services01-01-2006 – 01-01-2012

  At WNS Global Services (2006–2012), progressed from developer through every technical and leadership layer within a single tenure — leading approximately 50 web development projects and 150+ business process automation applications across BFSI, travel, logistics, stock markets, and insurance. Single-handedly automated 100 processes, winning the company's highest performance award, and delivered a complex programme declined by all other senior managers — an early demonstration of strategic accountability under pressure.

• Web Programmer / VB Application Developer / Senior Programmer · Earlier roles (1999–2006)01-01-1999 – 01-01-2006

  Prior roles (1999–2006) as Web Programmer, VB Application Developer, and Senior Programmer built hands-on foundations in VB 6.0, C#, Java, ASP/ASP.Net, JavaScript, HTML, MS SQL Server, and Oracle — technical depth that today enables genuine peer-level conversations with engineering teams.

Education

• Welingkar Institute of ManagementMBA, E-Business
• University of MumbaiB.Com
• Aptech, MumbaiDiploma, Software Engineering

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