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Shikha Sharma.

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About Me

Welcome to my corner of the web!
I’m a Technical Product Manager with a passion for turning innovative ideas into impactful technology solutions. Currently, I lead product initiatives at The Washington Post, where I leverage AI, data-driven insights, and customer-focused strategies to build products that matter.

My journey began as a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co, where I honed my technical expertise before transitioning into product management.

With a Master’s in Information Systems from The University of Utah, I specialize in bridging the gap between technology and business to create seamless, scalable, and user-friendly solutions. Whether it’s designing AI-powered tools, streamlining workflows, or crafting engaging user experiences, I thrive at the intersection of creativity and technology.

I believe in the power of collaboration and continuous learning to drive progress. Some of the tools and skills that have been instrumental in my journey include:

  • Product Strategy
  • Product Vision
  • Aha, Jira and Confluence
  • Android, Python
  • React, Node.js
  • Java, Spring boot, SQL and more...

 

Experience

The Washington Post

Technical Product Manager (May 2022 – Present)
  • Spearheaded AI-powered solutions to accelerate content creation workflows, boosting production efficiency by 35%. Prioritized ROI-driven features, delivering value across all client content teams.
  • Revamped SaaS billing processes by uncovering unbilled usage, developing pricing strategies for multiple offerings, and launching a precise dashboard, resulting in a $16M revenue uplift.
  • Defined and executed the vision for a multisite usage dashboard, enabling granular insights and data-driven decisions; conducted A/B testing to achieve 90% client adoption.
  • Redesigned the admin portal by refining user roles and permission structures through stakeholder interviews, reducing unauthorized access to zero and strengthening client data security.
  • Crafted the go-to-market strategy for security enhancements, achieving 100% PCI compliance across 300+ client websites through cross-functional collaboration and competitive analysis.
  • Developed a customizable widget for the ArcXP app, boosting user interaction and optimizing performance through seamless integration into the existing app architecture.
  • Led a team to design and develop a news quiz application, launched as the “On the Record” feature, enhancing The Washington Post reader engagement.

Skills: Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Stakeholder Management and Communication, Customer Research, Agile Methodologies, Data-Driven Decision Making, Product Lifecycle Management etc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Senior Software Engineer (Jan 2018 – Dec 2021)
  • Worked on a desktop-based application to design and develop significant components, optimize the existing logic, fix production issues, migration from legacy services to REST API and modernization.
  • Setup centralized logging for applications using Splunk, to detect anomalies, and developed cleanup scripts
  • Developed a utility for the business users to perform data fixes without technical support
  • Developed a web application for skill assessment and learning, end-to-end.
  • Enhanced performance of a nightly job by 60% by implementing changes in the algorithm.
  • Handled application deployments while reporting and fixing issues across various environments through CI/CD

Software Engineer Intern (Jan 2017 – June 2017)
  • Developed a web application to detect credit card frauds by applying rules on the transactions
  • Automated the process of transaction retrieval, fraud detection, push notification
  • Developed an alternative solution: A neural network algorithm in Python to detect credit card frauds
Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Python, HTML, CSS, JS, Bootstrap

IIIT - Hyderabad

NLP Research Intern (May 2015 – July 2015)
  • Worked on Anusaaraka, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research and Development project - a machine translation system.
  • Developed a parser for text extraction and noise removal from data in various files
  • Enhanced the loading speed of output files generated by Anusaaraka.
  • Analyzed the layered output and did data classification
  • Did sentence alignment, word alignment and evaluated the machine (Anusaaraka) translated sentences.
  • Generated parallel corpus of NCERT books using ‘Champollion’ software.

Fortuity Infotech.

Game Developer Intern (Jan 2015 – Mar 2015)
  • Learned the concepts of game development such as Masking, Texturing etc. and developed a 2D game, Pong in a cross-platform language, Haxe using various libraries like Away3D, Actuate, Flixel, Lime, and OpenFL.
  • Developed a collision detection algorithm.
  • Established mathematical formulas and equation for variable speed.

Technology Entrepreneurship Programme

A semi-virtual programme offered by the Indian School of Business to foster entrepreneurship by guiding students in creating technology-enabled products and services. Courses include Creativity and Brain Storming for Design, Design for Manufacturing, Usability, Aesthetics, and Functionality.

Courses attended:

Term 1:
  • Innovation tournaments – Screening, Selection
  • Live Design (Hands-on lab activity to bring together prior learning)
  • Product Suite, Platforms and Versioning
  • DFM-Design for Manufacturing, Re-Manufacturing, Sustainability
  • Product Architecture and Modularity
  • Usability, Aesthetics, Functionality
  • Creativity and Brainstorming for Design
  • Tools for Service Design: Mapping the Customer Journey
Term 2:
  • Competing with incumbents
  • Entry Strategies
  • Opportunity Valuation
  • Opportunity Identification
Term 3:
  • Finance
  • Legal Compliance
  • Basic Accounting
  • Strategic Management
  • New Product Development
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Usability, Aesthetics and Functionality
  • Startup Core team
Term 4:
  • Harvesting the opportunity - Exit Options & Strategies
  • Acquiring & Mobilizing Resources – Building the team
  • Marketing 101
  • Acquiring & Mobilizing Resources - Financing
  • Pricing Models
  • Product/Technology Adoption/Diffusion
  • Forecasting for New Products
  • Project Management for Startups

Miscellaneous

  • Presented a paper on “3D Internet” in Acumen fest at Vasavi College of Engineering
  • Organised the launch of 2k Run game
  • Organized a Hackathon in GNITS as a part of Ignium2k17 Fest
  • Worked as volunteer for the events The August Fest, and TiE - ISB Connect
  • Attended workshops on Business Models, and Design Thinking

Achievements

  • Five key recognition for “Exceeding Expectations” twice
  • “Shining stars” award for my performance in 2018
  • Finalist in JPMorgan’s Code for Good challenge 2016, Bangalore (top 1.5% of 2000 applicants)
  • Analyst Committee Hub lead at JPMorgan Chase in 2018
  • Certified Application Security Champion
  • First prize in Technical Connect, Technical Crosswords, Aptitude test competitions conducted in GNITS
  • Performed exceptionally well in the first round of Hyderabad’s Best Coder competition and qualified for the final round
  • Finalist in Design Freaks and KodeCrypt coding competition conducted by CBIT

Skills

Coding

90%

Designing

80%

Creativity

85%

Leadership

80%

Highlights

Corsa Racer

Projects

Portfolio - Products I worked on

Automatic Fraud Detection System

Vill Learn

Umeed

Personal Portfolio

Enire

KonQr 3D

Pong

Restaurant flyer

Fitness theme t-shirt

Father's day t-shirt

Father's day t-shirt

Meteor graphics

Dollhouse lashes logo

Dollhouse lashes cover pic

Webcrazy logo

Pizza slice illustration

Anusaaraka

URL Shortener

MM workshop promotion video

Audio Spectrum

Fraud Detection Illustration