About

Akheel Firoz is a results-driven Product Manager with an obsession for everything tech. He is currently working as a Program Manager II at Microsoft, where he is the SPOC for the Android: Hotels team and has achieved 15,000 room nights, an increase of ~20% YoY in 2019. He manages sprint cycles from prioritization to delivery, collaborating with product management, UX, and data analytics teams. Akheel has also redesigned the hotel filtering system and automated dynamic filters onboarding based on real-time user browsing data, improving accuracy of dynamic price filters by ~10% and reducing filter latency by ~50%. Prior to joining Microsoft, Akheel worked as a Senior Software Engineer at MakeMyTrip, where he reduced funnel drop off by ~15% by reducing image load times by ~40% via changes to image processing and caching. He also increased installs on lower-end devices by ~15% by reducing the app size by ~31% by making changes to asset management. Additionally, Akheel saved 60% of time spent by the marketing team for campaign notifications by creating an ahead-of-time notification engine. Akheel has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra and is currently pursuing a Post Graduate Programme in Management from ISB, with a focus on Marketing and Information & Technology Management. He has also completed an internship at L&T Infotech, where he worked on a project related to IoT and Home Automation. Akheel's tech stack includes product management, Android, integration, image processing, and software engineering. He has relevant experience of 4.93 years and is always looking for new challenges to enhance his skills and knowledge.