Sandeep Paruchuri

Leading special projects within Applied AI & Financial Engineering

I boomeranged! Led cross-app experiences teams between WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Meta AI. I was accountable for a multi-billion dollar revenue strategy & execution. Worked closely with leadership to set company-wide cross-app strategy, while building the team to bring those experiences to 3b+ users. Own engagement, acquisition, and monetization strategic goals.

-Led Global Payroll expansion efforts at Rippling. -Scaled multiple business lines to multi-million ARR each, launched our first foreign country business lines, and took the PM team global. -Built the foundation and scaled our Global business to $40m ARR in the first 12 months - and growing fast! After scaling the team and stabilizing Global Payroll, focused on pivoting Rippling's Global Contractor products enabling global talent to thrive, and lowering the friction, cost, and complexity to get paid anywhere by anyone.

I managed multiple PMs and cross-functional teams that worked on our mobile platform, measurement and experimentation frameworks, data models, backups, and media experiences. Work delivered included cross platform history migration, notification optimizations, substantial backup improvements, and higher resolution images and link previews. Taken together, we improved battery life, app performance, and usability for over 2 billion users, all while having a lot of fun along the way.

NUvention: Web is an interdisciplinary experiential learning program in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University designed to expose students to the entire product and business development life cycle of a start-up software company. Named a "Top 10 Best Entrepreneurship Course" in the United States by Inc. Magazine. Advise a student venture in the class, teach product management skills, and evaluate all teams in a 'VC pitch' at the end of each quarter.

Product Manager lead for customer experience, developer surface, and partner integration. Additionally, lead technical integration for new product development. Combined, directly oversaw a team of 2 PMs and 8+ developers. Provided guidance for technical software development initiatives, business integration, and architecture across Avant as it evolved from a startup to mid- stage. Incubated what would become the Amount business line, a whitelabel SaaS lending issuance platform. Previously, oversaw data engineering and algorithm development teams for credit worthiness modeling at the core of Avant's investor value.

Founding member of the Cortana AI team, sole owner of the WP 8.1 Map app & location experiences, contributed to evaluation and development of 5 pending patents, including algorithms for low-powered signal detection. Coined the phrase "Hey Cortana" and built the first hardware accelerated voice AI activation experience. Was focused on architecting and deploying the platform of Cortana AI, as well as integrated hardware experiences. Some examples of 2014 projects featured in the media are linked below. In Windows Phone 8.1, developed technical experience specifications based on user research and insight analysis, within the constraints of business requirements and ecosystem strengths that has led to a complete product experience redesign in the Maps app. User insights lead to organic linkage of scenarios across the Cortana AI and Maps realms. Executed development work on the new user experience vision and managed contributors from offices in six time zones and multiple release schedules.

Worked on two primary projects: the NorthStar satellite rescue accessory for the Lone Worker series of Sonim phones, and developing end-to-end user stories for a forthcoming advanced software and hardware project.

Enthusiast Apps developed an iPhone app and content management system that allows the administrations of public venues to be able to create guided mobile tours easily. Differentiation comes from a CMS that is able to use content stored on popular media sites (youtube, flickr, etc) and that is simple enough that it can be set up and maintained by marketing, rather than IT. Enthusiast Apps's software suite launch partner was the Lincoln Park Zoo, in Lincoln Park, IL, a north suburb of Chicago.