Hi, I’m
Shyam Suchak
Senior Product Manager - API Management
London
Overview
5
years of post-secondary education
16
years of professional experience
Summary
- Overall 17+ years' of software industry work experience.
- Currently associated with Oracle as Senior Product Manager of API Gateway in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure organization.
- Experience of working as Product Manager, Project Manager, Principle Technical Consultant, Pre-Sales Consultant, Senior Q.A and Lead Developer.
- Experience in building product vision, pricing and go to market strategy for API Gateway product at Oracle.
- Played key role in designing API journeys for Limit Orders, Forward Trades, Payments, Transactions and Mass Payment functionality.
- Manged OpenBanking Implementaion and Rollout for Ebury.
- Planning and execution of go to market road map for API's
- Managed R&D projects for Ulster Bank , WeLab and Bank Of Ireland.
- Responsible for Interaction framework adoption at Nordea, Julius Baer Singapore and KBC Ireland.
- Experience of working with Banks Architecture, Development and Infrastructure teams to successfully plan and implement Interaction Framework (IRIS) as well as Innovation hub (R&D) based projects.
- Experience of working as Senior Q.A for Oracle HRMS Payroll team.
- Experience of working as developer and implement web based ASP.NET 2.0 & 3.5 applications which were built in C#.
- Sound experience of working in Agile based development and testing projects.
- Proven skills to translate business requirements into design specification.
- Experience of project planning, technical estimation, task breakdown with excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Passion for quality, driven by positive thinking and result oriented attitude.
Skills
Digital Transformation
Project Management
Product Management
Stakeholder Management
Strategic Planning
Leadership and Team Management
Agile and Scrum Methodologies
Process Improvement
Risk Management
Communication and Influencing
Accomplishments
- Q2-2018 Regional Recognition Award for delivery of project in a very challenging timeframe
- IBM Power Down Award (Part of Award Winning Team) : In recognition of exemplary work in displacing IBM at Old Dominion Freight Line.
- Rookie of the Quarter Award : In recognition of successfully delivering multiple PoC in very tight deadlines.
- Bug Hunter : Logged 500+ valid bugs for UK & UAE Payroll product.
Temenos
Oracle India
Education
Bangalore UniversityBangalore
Master of Science from Computer Science
07.2007 - 04.2009
Gujarat UniversityAhmedabad
Bachelor's from Computer Applications
06.2000 - 04.2003
Work History
Oracle
Senior Product Manager
01.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for creating and driving Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) for API Gateway.
- Worked on developing a new product pricing strategy to align the cost and revenue drivers of the product.
- Collaborated with senior product manager on the team for the Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for Dynamic Routing, Dynamic Authorization, and OpenID Connect features on the API Gateway.
- Responsible for conducting gap analysis and leading a program to migrate internal Oracle teams from the Web Tier Security Service to the OCI API Gateway.
- Partner closely with fellow product managers to innovate by identifying customer needs and requirements, defining specific scenarios and use cases, and envisioning solutions to facilitate customer migration to the OCI API Gateway.
- Conduct quarterly roadmap analysis with the engineering team and assist in prioritizing product features.
- Leading the Flexible API Gateway Offering Project: Spearheading the initiative to introduce a new SKU for the API Gateway, aimed at achieving positive profit margins and enhancing product offerings.
Ebury
Product Manager - API
01.2020 - 01.2022
Job overview
- Automate operations by defining and building API based user journeys from core function provided by Ebury backend system.
- Managed Open Banking Platform Implementaion project for Ebury UK and Berlin Group API for Ebury Belgium Entity.
- Spearheaded collaborative efforts between Engineering and Sales to bring products to market.
- Thrived in fast-paced, highly adept team of API Developers to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
- Monitored market trends and competitor performance and analyzed gaps to update product roadmap.
- Coordinated design meetings and decisions across Channels and Compliance departments and teams.
- Documented user stories, specifications and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Developed product documentation to communicate and align key components of upcoming features and products to internal teams.
- Assisting sales, pre-sales, partnerships and solutions teams with demos, training, engagement plans.
- Conduct Win/Loss analysis to directly feed into strategic product roadmap planning to improve our market offering
Temenos UK
Principle Technical Specialist
01.2015 - 01.2020
Job overview
- Lead Temenos Innovation hub (R&D) team project management activities.
- Planned and executed go to market strategy for Innovation hub services and Interaction framework.
- Responsible to promote Innovation hub team within Temenos as will as with prospective banks.
- KPI's included building pipeline of work for Innovation hub team, priorities work in pipeline and ensure requirement documents are ready with right information to kick start development of prototypes.
- Work with Temenos Market Place vendors to build prototypes which would showcase banks how they can benefit from using solutions provided through market place.
- Kick Start API projects with Tier1 Bank.
- Worked with DevOps team of Nordea to plan incremental & frequent delivery of Technology artifacts using Agile principles to de-risk bank API's delivery.
- Work along with Nordea Scrum masters and plan Epics, Stories and Task for Interaction Framework API development which helped them to meet their MVP goals on time.
- Conduct developer training and workshops with Bank architects
Oracle India
Pre Sales Consultant
12.2012 - 09.2014
Job overview
- Provide technical expertise to American Sales team and help them with complex Proof of concepts (POC), Proof of Value (POV),Client Demos, Addressing customer queries through RFP/RFI's and Solution preparation/proposal related with Oracle BPM product.
- Build reusable assets for Oracle wide sales consulting group.
- Conduct deep dive technical discussions with customers including product demonstrations which covers advanced BPM features.
- Conduct workshops and training on Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
- Collaborate with Product management/partners for key opportunities.
- Own Reusable assets from PoC done for Oracle BPM Product.
- Power Down Award (Part of Award Winning Team) : In recognition of exemplary work in displacing IBM at Old Dominion Freight Line.
- Rookie of the Quarter Award : In recognition of successfully delivering multiple PoC in very tight deadlines.
Oracle India
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
10.2010 - 12.2012
Job overview
- Lead point of Contact for QA activities related with Core Payroll, UK Payroll and UAE Payroll.
- Help Oracle support team to triage issues reported by HMRC UK.
- Played a pivotal role to plan and execute test strategy for Statutory Leaves Enhancement, Shared Paternity Leave Enhancement and Auto pension Enrollment enhancement for Oracle's HRMS Application 11i, R12 and 12.1.2 lines releases.
- Working closely with Development, Product Management and Support teams over Design/Analysis and Testing of Oracle UK Payroll.
- Train and lead junior employees on Oracle HRMS (HR and Payroll).
- Oracle India Logged 500+ valid bugs for UK & UAE Payroll product.
HCL | Client : Microsoft
Software engineer
2010.02 - 2010.10 (8 education.months_Label)
Job overview
- Worked as Senior Software Development Engineer in Test for Customer Velocity Platform (CVP) in Microsoft.
- Responsible for preforming sanity test, smoke test and run automation test on daily build of software.
- Write code in C# for CVP automation test framework.
Akos Health System
Senior Member of Technical Staff
05.2009 - 02.2010
Job overview
- Responsible to carry out complete SDLC for Paperless Dental college cloud based software.
- Worked on design, development and testing of front end as well as back end of the Akos product.
- Product was build using ASP.net (C#) and MS SQL Server.
- Managed team of two developers and one tester.
- Distribute development task among team and ensure no one is blocked due to technical issues.
- Contact on site training to client and help Sales team with building demo asset and pitch.
Webz World
Senior Developer
01.2005 - 07.2007
Job overview
- Gained Hand on experience of complete SDLC for a project which including estimation, architecture, design, development and implementation of the project.
- Interacted with business users and identified business and functional requirements pertaining to system enhancements.
- Participate in client acceptance test and prepare the report for the same.
- Front end and Back end development of desktop-based application using VB6 for Travel Industry.
- Front end and Back end development of web-based application using Asp.net for Private doctors and clinics.