Nilay Panchal is a Principal Product Manager in San Francisco with 11 years of experience shaping enterprise database and AI products at Oracle, currently leading strategy and execution for the Autonomous AI Database. He owns critical areas like disaster recovery, backup/restore, advanced security and natural language SQL features, and drove cross-region standbys that achieved 99.995% availability for regulated banking and telecom customers. Nilay blends deep engineering roots (years contributing to Oracle Text search and indexing internals) with product leadership—translating customer needs into technical requirements and coordinating 40+ engineers to ship at scale. He launched developer-focused SKUs and an innovative ECPU billing model that improved price predictability and helped fuel 47% YoY revenue growth for Autonomous Database. A Carnegie Mellon MIS graduate, he’s equally comfortable evangelizing at conferences and building hands-on enablement like LiveLabs workshops that reached 300k+ views. Outside work he engages the product community on Twitter as @theproductlad, signaling a public-facing, builder-oriented approach to product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
I.C.S.E. Computer Science, I.C.S.E. Computer Science at Campion School
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Master's degree Management Information Systems, Master's degree Management Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
H.S.C. Computer Science, H.S.C. Computer Science at JAI HIND COLLEGE, MUMBAI
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