About

Shirish Kadam is a skilled product manager with over 3 years of experience in Indian ed-tech and fin-tech unicorns. He is currently working as a Product Manager at Leadsquared, an Indian unicorn that offers a no-code tool for capturing and converting leads seamlessly. Shirish has led the early product growth of Leadsquared to $20K+ MRR in 2 quarters and reduced delivery TAT by 70% by eliminating the skill barrier. He has also reduced user onboarding drop-offs by 25% and consistently delivered a 40%+ conversion rate. Prior to his current role, Shirish founded Shoutnow, a bootstrapped startup that offered a marketplace for D2C brands to reach their target audience through micro-influencers. He led an organic growth of 10K+ app installs in 2 quarters and built a community of artists and creators with 2K+ monthly active users. Shirish has also worked as a Back End Developer at Slice, where he built risk models for fin-tech loan applications and reduced risk assessment TAT by 3x with automation. Shirish is a skilled software engineer with experience in data engineering and machine learning. He is skilled in building delightful user experiences and has a relevant experience of 4.19 years. Shirish holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, a Master's degree in Business Administration from NMIMS, and a High School Diploma from Gokhale Education Society's H.A.L. College of Science. He is passionate about leadership and strategy, applied finance, and science and mathematics. In his free time, Shirish loves to embark on treks and trails. Shirish shares his notes and learnings on shirishkadam.com.