About

Aman Kataria is a seasoned product manager, investor, and engineer with over ten years of experience in building, shipping, and managing software products. He is skilled at bridging the gap between business stakeholders, user experience, and engineering teams to deliver successful products in both B2B and B2C spaces. Aman is passionate about understanding things at a fundamental level and sharing his knowledge as clearly as possible. He has helped Fortune 500s and startups launch products and derive actionable insights using the right mix of data and strategy, steering businesses on a growth trajectory. Currently, Aman is a Product Manager at Google, working on the Managed Payments Team at eBay, where he is building a platform to intermediate payments across 20+ countries and over $100B in GMV. Within the first 12 months in his current role, he launched a major product, Decision Editor, from scratch, which impacts all of the ~1 billion risk decisions made per day at eBay.com and all of its ancillary sites. He introduced a flow-based risk Decision Engine replacing legacy atomic rules to mitigate fraud and intermediate payments worth $100B in 20+ countries, improving loss rate by 4 bps (~$40 Million). He also designed and launched Decision Editor, the primary interface for business teams to create decision flows to prevent myriad fraud patterns from the ground up, picking valuable Product Design and wire-framing skills along the way. Aman manages work across four engineering scrum teams and three business verticals (Rules, Policy, Operations) in four different time-zones. Aman has also worked as a Senior Product Manager at eBay and as a Product Manager Intern at Legg Mason (acquired by Franklin Templeton). At Legg Mason, he launched HODLER’s dashboard, an open-source portal to track near real-time prices of over 200 cryptocurrencies, news in six different categories, and adoption of various coins, helping educate more than 3000 employees about Blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He proposed a cloud-based data lake architecture using AWS services to consolidate data from different lines of businesses (LOBs), enabling teams to derive actionable insights to steer business strategy. He also increased visibility of trade anomalies using a Python-based framework and created Tableau stories for the leadership team to analyze trends in data. Aman holds an MBA in Finance from The Johns Hopkins University and a B.Tech in Computer Science from MNNIT. He is proficient in product management, product design, AWS, Blockchain,