About

Srinath Warrier is a highly accomplished Product Manager at SAP, with over 10 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently serving as a PM Fellow at NextLeap, where he is the Product Owner for the "Collaborative Project Management" SaaS application on SAP Cloud. Srinath is a multi-talented individual, and also has a passion for music. Throughout his career, Srinath has achieved several notable accomplishments. He is a 3 Patent-holder and a SAP Leadership Award winner. He has also built a unique solution for more than 120 enterprise customers, achieving an 80% performance improvement for a complex editable Gantt with more than 5000 entries. Srinath is a people-oriented leader who has managed a team of 10 talented individuals, building a healthy innovative culture. He ensures close collaboration with stakeholders, industry experts, and engineering teams. He has also mentored 2 additional Product Owners within 6 months of taking the role. Srinath is a process improvement expert, having introduced streamlined Agile processes that resulted in a 60% improvement in operational efficiency. He has also reduced 50% of manual testing effort by introducing automation tests, following the test pyramid. Prior to his current role, Srinath co-founded Brandstore, which aimed to help offline shoppers locate the best products at the cheapest prices in a mall. He negotiated partnerships with Phoenix Marketcity, Bangalore, hired a dev team of 5, designed and built an Android app with mall's store and map data. After 5 months of testing, he decided to shut down the project due to lack of product-market fit. He was also a Software Intern at Mime 360, which was later acquired by Flipkart. He built an analytics dashboard used by the Mime360 operations team, which aimed to list the input files and carry out transcoding of video data. Srinath holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. He also holds a Secondary School Certificate from John 23RD High School. His tech stack includes product management, testing, and Android.