About

Abhijit Mehta is a skilled and experienced Product Manager with a background in software development and architecture, and the overall management of a product's life from conception to fruition. He has over 16 years of relevant experience in building customer experience software products, self-service APIs, and partnership integrations that are both customer and developer-friendly and can operate at high-velocity high volume cloud-scale with reachability to millions of users. Abhijit has a proven ability to both contribute individually and lead project teams to successfully deliver high-performance, highly available, and secure solutions of the highest quality in complex and challenging customer environments. Abhijit's area of expertise is in assessing customer desires and requirements and generating a product that successfully meets those standards. He brings forth the ability to determine product priorities, specifications, production timelines, and in-depth plans for product development. He is an analytical thinker who works collaboratively to get the job done. Currently, Abhijit is the Director of Product Management at Algolia, an API-first search and discovery platform that empowers builders to compose experiences at internet scale to predict what customers want with blazing fast search and the best application browse experience leading to more remarkable discovery. At Algolia, Abhijit is responsible for leading the product management team and driving the product strategy to deliver world-class products. Previously, Abhijit was the Head of Product Management at Impala, where he played a pivotal role in changing the way businesses connect to travel data. He was responsible for leading the product management team and driving the product strategy to deliver innovative and customer-centric products. Abhijit has also been a guest lecturer and featured speaker at Product School, a global leader in product management training with a community of over one million product professionals. Abhijit holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Durgapur. His tech stack includes product management, search, and software engineering. Abhijit aspires to use his engineering background, customer-facing solution architecture exposure, and product management experience to move to a product leadership position where he can build products and teams aimed to deliver world-class products.