About

Swapnil Kumar is a highly skilled Product Manager with a strong academic background in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. With 3.46 years of relevant experience in the internet industry, Swapnil has a proven track record of delivering world-class products and services. Currently working as a Member at Towards Future, Swapnil is responsible for leading product development initiatives, driving innovation, and ensuring successful product launches. Prior to this, he worked as a Product Manager at Interview Kickstart, where he led the Software Engineering and System Design verticals, accounting for ~45% of the learners. Swapnil collaborated with 50+ cross-border Subject Matter Experts from Tier 1 Tech companies for curriculum development and delivery for Backend, Front end, Full stack, Test, and Security Engineering courses. He also developed a new process for Task Tracking on JIRA and eventually adopted it for the entire Products Team. Swapnil's efforts in training Program Advisors and improving the sales funnel to drive better conversion rates for the leads were highly appreciated. He ideated and delivered the first domain-specific webinar for a category, which was eventually adopted across the company for all the leads. Swapnil was also responsible for collaborating with Operations and Student Success team at IK to ensure weekly live-class delivery for the courses. He ideated and developed a cost-tracking framework on Notion to track SME cost to enable budget tracking. Swapnil interviewed and onboarded 50+ instructors for curriculum delivery and development for the SWE courses. He conducted multiple interviews to onboard developers and Product Managers, and led a team of 3 reports. Swapnil won the first prize in the hackathon for analyzing the correlation between ratings and profit in H2 2021. He worked on fixing multiple tech features to improve the platform interaction - both internal employees and external customers. Before joining Interview Kickstart, Swapnil worked as a Software Engineer-II at Dunzo, where he worked on pagination of home page, reducing the loading time of home page by 4 times. He also worked on enabling offers on web/google spot. Swapnil is highly skilled in languages such as Java, Python, C++ and worked on different frameworks primarily on Dropwizard, Hibernate, and Flask. He is also proficient in Frontend, Backend, and Web development, ML, Neural Networks, Data Engineering, OpenCV, Neo4j, Cypher, and UI. Swapnil is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Degree in Product Management from Duke