Prashant Batra
Senior Director Of Product Management at Run365
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashant Batra is a senior product leader based in San Francisco with two decades of software industry experience and a recent focus on Product-Led Growth, monetization, pricing and marketplace strategies. Currently Senior Director of Product Management & Growth at Harness, he leads PLG, pricing & packaging, community engineering and ecosystem initiatives to drive both bottoms-up developer adoption and sales-led revenue. His background spans hands-on engineering (Linux kernel, embedded firmware, WAN optimization) to strategic product roles at Citrix, Nutanix and Pulse Secure, giving him rare fluency across product, platform and go-to-market. He holds technical and executive degrees from institutions in Europe and the US, including an EMBA, and is Pragmatic Marketing certified and trained in PLG at Reforge. Notably, he blends deep technical credibility with commercial rigor—shaping predictive support platforms at Nutanix and architecting developer-first distribution at Harness. Outside work he’s active in the San Francisco running community as a Pacer, reflecting a leadership style that values coaching and sustained team performance.
3 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Master of Business Administration - EMBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Executive Master of Business Administration - EMBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyInternational Masters, Information Technology, 93, International Masters, Information Technology, 93 at Scuola Superiore 'Sant' Anna' di Studi Universitari e di PerfezionamentoBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, 84, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, 84 at JSS Academy of Technical EducationSenior Secondary (XII), Sciences, Senior Secondary (XII), Sciences at DPS NoidaPragmatic Marketing Certified - Level Six (PMC-VI), Product Management & Product Marketing, Pragmatic Marketing Certified - Level Six (PMC-VI), Pragmatic Marketing Certified - Level Six (PMC-VI), Product Management & Product Marketing, Pragmatic Marketing Certified - Level Six (PMC-VI) at Pragmatic MarketingMaster of Science (MSc), Embedded Systems Design, 90, Master of Science (MSc), Embedded Systems Design, 90 at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) / University of LuganoProduct Led Growth, Product Management, Growth, Product Led Growth, Product Management, Growth at Reforge
English, italian (beginners), Hindi
Github Skills (4)
harness10
react6
nextjs5
typescript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
harness-community/harnesscd-example-apps
May 2023 - Nov 2023
Example Apps to Demonstrate Harness CD & GitOps
Contributions:2 reviews in 6 months
harness/harness-cli
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
Harness CLI for managing Harness resources, from the command line using YAMLs as input [LIMITED GA]
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 month
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