Venkatesh Shukla
Senior Product Manager at Careem
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolVenkatesh Shukla is a Senior Product Manager with 12 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and product leadership across e-commerce and logistics, currently scaling B2B fulfilment and support products in the MENA/EMEA region. He progressed from software engineering at Visa and a notable Google Summer of Code contribution to the Subsurface dive-log project into product roles at Flipkart, Zalando, Wolt and now Careem, giving him rare fluency in both technical implementation and customer-facing growth experiments. An IIM Calcutta MBA (top 10% of his class) with an IIT (BHU) engineering background, he repeatedly drives measurable improvements in funnel and category experience while keeping a builder’s instinct for integrations and bug fixes. Notably, his open-source work involved shipping Android and FTDI serial support to a widely used upstream project, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-level approach to product problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indian Institute of Management, CalcuttaBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
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Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
android-development10
jna9
git8
xml8
usb7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
subsurface/subsurface
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Venkatesh contributed to the Subsurface project by addressing a bug related to uploading divelogs, modifying the argument order in a `fread` function call within the `qt-ui/subsurfacewebservices.cpp` file. They also added functionality to save user IDs locally, modifying both XML parsing and git settings to accommodate this feature. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating Android functionality, adding a template for Android packages, extracting USB file descriptors for FTDI devices, and adding a new file `serial_ftdi.c`.
pythonsubsurfaceupstream
venkateshshukla/tpo-forum-notification
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 109 commits, 43 pushes in 10 months
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