The Samelogic Podcast

Parth is a Senior Product Manager at Tesla, where he manages the ownership experience for Tesla's Energy Products (Solar Panels, Solar Roof, Powerwall, and Wall Connector). Before that, he co-founded and exited a startup in the Virtual Reality space, where he led Product and tech. When he is not busy, Parth loves gaming and hiking. He also follows Soccer and is an ardent Formula 1 fan.

Kaivalya leads enterprise products at HackerRank that help the largest tech companies recruit engineers effectively. He also owns HackerRank's integration strategy, app ecosystem, and API platform. In this episode, Kaivalya speaks with Dwayne about finding the next big play, hiring the right team, and a product culture that makes startups successful.

Ashima is currently working as a Senior Product Manager at Carvana and leads the pre-purchase experience in the direct-to-consumer mobile app on iOS and Android. She has taken multiple products from concept to launch for millions of customers in the B2C space. Ashima started her role as a Technology Consultant at Deloitte and later moved into Product Management after doing her MBA. With most of her product career spent at startups, she is well-versed in scaling products in a fast-paced environment and driving iterative product growth.

Jason is a product manager at Microsoft who has experience working on both enterprise and consumer products. Jason shares his journey into product management, his current experience, and some lessons he has learned early in his career. 

Chakkaradeep is a highly passionate, outcome-driven product manager who strives to design and launch innovative software products. Chakkaradeep is currently working as a Principal Product Manager at GoDaddy. As part of the core Identity team, Chakkaradeep leads the platform team in building a secure & adaptable authorization platform for GoDaddy’s products and services.

Martin Lasarga is a Group Product Manager at Postclick, the first AI-driven solution to guarantee increased conversions for digital marketers.  Throughout his 15+ year career, he has worked cross-functionally with design, technology, and engineering partners to define and build SaaS solutions globally.  With experience in Marketing, Machine Learning, Content management, and Artificial intelligence, Martin is a seasoned product leader passionate about solving real problems and adding value with cutting-edge technology solutions.  In addition to his work with Postclick, Martin is a dedicated Product Mentor with Product League, mentoring PMs worldwide. Outside of the office, Martin enjoys skiing, biking, and hiking with his kids.

Dhiraj Bhat is a fintech product manager experienced in launching products from conception to launch. He works at Unit21, a fintech company, to make compliance and fraud checks easy. Previously, he worked at GCoin to launch a new and responsible way of owning gold. If he's not busy building the next fintech product, Dhiraj can be found writing about football(that is really played with the feet) and product management.

Ritika is a Technical Product Manager at Arrive Logistics. She has orchestrated the development of Softwares, APIs, Robots, and Data products from inception to launch. She is outcome-driven, and she loves to work through ambiguity to build products that truly add value and move the needle for her customers. In the past, she has also worked as a Data Scientist and transformed the way organizations make decisions using data.

Heather has a software engineering and data science background, endeavoring to create and enable AI/ML-powered products that are indispensable, beloved, and empowering to all. Heathers is currently a Director of Product at Kiavi, a FinTech/PropTech start-up empowering real estate investors with modern technology, timely capital to fund opportunities, and the confidence required to unlock the value of America's aged homes. She leads all product activities to grow Kiavi's data differentiation that leads to customer growth, new revenue streams, etc. Before Kiavi, Heather was a Senior Director of Product at JLL, heading JLL's proprietary workplace experience application, powering the hybrid workplace with personalized AI-driven experiences that simplify employees' workday. The application encompasses mobiles, tablets, desktops, kiosks & panels.  Before JLL, Heather was at Google for five years and started as a data scientist and transitioned my career ladder to product management a few years in. Heather's charter was to revolutionize the recruiting industry through ML/AI. Heather and her team built Cloud Talent Solutions to match jobs and candidates better through a suite of enterprise APIs to power our customers' search and recommendation needs.