
Product Manager, Ruby on Rails geek and Guitarist
Bombay Area, India

Product Manager, Ruby on Rails geek and Guitarist
Bombay Area, India
I am driven by the urge to create kick-ass technology products. Especially in the web/mobile/telephony space.
I have worked with Voicetech Solutions, Nuance Communications, Headstrong and Tata Consultancy Services at various roles (both Sales and Technical) in the past. Currently I am with Lattice Purple Technologies - a tech startup based in Noida. Here we work on cutting-edge web applications making use of modern technologies such as cloud computing, REST apis, and dynamic languages such as Ruby on Rails, Python and so on.
I am currently based in Noida (Delhi, India) and can be reached at nilesh.tr@gmail.com or +91-971-735-3059.
Product Management, Marketing, Software Development, Agile Development
Special interests in web apps, mashups, SaaS, mobile apps, VoIP, Telephony Mashups, IVR, VoiceXML, Web, Linux and Open source.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
(Entertainment industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
The awesome guitar fraternity :-) We set up a premium guitar instruction center in Noida - which has built a great brand and a loyal customer base in a very short period. It is an amazingly fun place to be at.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 4 months)
At Lattice Purple I built and launched YouSuggest - our social suggestion box product. It is Software-as-a-service offering making use of modern technologies such as Ruby on Rails, cloud computing platforms and so on. See http://yousuggest.us
I was also in charge of other projects using other technologies such as Google Maps API, Javascript/AJAX, XQuery, Java, Groovy and Grails and lot more.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
I helped Voicetech - a silicon valley based technology product startup - develop their business plan and help identify channel partners for their expansion into the south-east asian market.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NUAN; Computer Software industry)
November 2005 — June 2006 (8 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — June 2006 (8 months)
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — June 2002 (2 months)
Adapted the NS Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics solver to handle non-matching three-dimensional mesh surfaces.
MBA , Marketing , 2006 — 2008
- Lead and organized Nirvaan 2006 and 2007 - the biggest b-school entrepreneurship summit of India
- National Winner of LakshWiz - All India IT Case Study Contest 2007 by NITIE
- National Finalist of India Innovation Pioneers Challenge 2007 - Felicitated by Department of Science & Technology (Government of India) and Intel Corporation
- Lead guitarist and vocalist for 3.4 - The IIM Lucknow music club
B.Tech. , Aerospace Engineering , 1999 — 2004
- Gold medal in Inter-hall eastern group music competition
- Captain of LLR Hall music team 2003
- Organized Ideon 2002 - The techfest of IIT Kharagpur
Startups, New ventures, Technology, Product Management, High-tech marketing, Music. Playing Guitar, Law & Economics