About

Kalpesh Pradhan is a Senior Product Manager with more than 11 years of professional experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management, Delivery, and Java Development. He has a proven track record of mentoring product and engineering teams to break down market problems into consumable user epics and stories to define acceptance criteria and drive engineering execution. Kalpesh has hands-on experience in creating sophisticated Digital Asset Management, Rights Management System, Content Management, and publishing systems, video platforms for encoding, transcoding, and DRM integration. He has also integrated ML/AI based approaches for content analyzing and subtitling to reduce human intervention. Kalpesh has designed solution platforms for Hungama MyPlay, Hungama.com, and all the affiliated digital properties. He has also designed the OTT platform for Disney India’s Bindass. His expertise includes product roadmap, prioritization, requirement gathering, data analysis, gap analysis, functional requirement specifications, use case modeling, business requirement specifications, client interaction, demos, UAT, release notes, user guides, JAD, UML, and functional testing. Kalpesh has guided the work of technical teams by articulating project goals and scope, translating business needs into technical terms, preparing detailed work breakdown structures (WBS), and instilling shared accountability for achieving project milestones. He has created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects. Currently, Kalpesh is working as an Associate Product Manager - Product Management at Vuclip Inc. where he is responsible for the on-schedule delivery of new features, bug fixes, and enhancements for Viu Content and Video Systems. He is also responsible for rolling out Live Streaming on the existing platform and app with dynamic ad-insertion support. Kalpesh has previously worked as a Senior Analyst Project Lead at Disney and a Digital Project Manager at Craft WW. He has a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration from Welingkar Institute of Management and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. He has also completed online courses in Internet of Things & Augmented Reality Emerging Technologies from Yonsei University and Introduction to Marketing from the University of Maryland. Kalpesh's tech stack includes product management, AI, test, Java, ML, integration, Jenkins, CI/CD, iOS, and software engineering. With his relevant experience of 11.54 years, Kalpesh is