About

Gautham Siddarth GS is a Technical Product Manager with over 11 years of experience in the software industry. He is currently working at Visa as a Product Manager and has been in this role for over 4 years. Gautham has a strong background in full-stack development, having spent 7+ years in this field before transitioning to product management. As a Product Manager, Gautham has been responsible for 360-degree requirement analysis, transforming requirements into implementable user stories, and acting as a bridge between business, management, and development teams. He has also been instrumental in driving the transformation of vision to reality and ensuring that all cross-functional teams are working towards a common vision with zero confusion. Gautham's key skills include requirements engineering, stakeholder management, managing roadmaps, and the ability to deal with cross-functional teams with diverse processes and mindsets but a common vision. His technology stack includes Adobe Experience Manager, Google Search Appliance, Java, JavaScript, web applications, web services, Springs, SQL, Hibernate, and HTML. In his first 8 years of his career, Gautham was a core member of the execution team in delivering products, analyzing SFS/user stories, estimating tasks, designing end-to-end solutions, and developing new features along with bug fixes/enhancements in existing modules. He also led the initiative called "Gamification Campaigns" across cross-geographical teams and carried out unit testing via JUnit test cases, integration testing, code review, and actively participated in deployment activities, backlog grooming, bug scrubbing, test plan and test case review, database design, and bug fixing. Gautham strongly believes in customer and user satisfaction being the key to the success of any product. He also believes that the success of a team can cover the failure of an individual but vice versa is never true. He is determined to make tomorrow better than today and lives by the mantra that a day without learning is a day not lived to the fullest. Gautham holds a Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Adichunchanagiri Institure of Technology. He completed his primary education from JVS School. His tech stack includes product management, testing, SQL, web, integration, software engineering, Java, JavaScript, and search.