India

Generalist Product Management

Technical Product Management

Platform Product Management

Group Product Management

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

Varun Hasija

Director - Product

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Airtable

Amplitude

Balsamiq

Jira

Mailchimp

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Building products to change the landscape of physician marketing.

As the Head of Engineering and Products, I am the owner of all the major products and features we are developing at Coding Blocks. 

I'm responsible for managing the infrastructure, technology, team mentoring, products (Tech, Marketing and Designs) and for taking new initiatives, prototyping them quickly and building scalable solutions around them.

Leading the Engineering and Product team to build products with 1 Lakh+ monthly users:
* Online Coding Blocks - Platform for online course consumption
* Hacker Blocks - Online judge to evaluate assignments and hold monthly contests to generate awareness for programming among tier2-tier3 cities,
* IDE Coding Blocks - Online IDE with support of over 6 different programming languages and is being used by developers around the world,
* Hiring Blocks - An online platform to connect talent and employers by providing them with students with relevant skillsets,
and many more. Responsible for availability, resilience, instrumentation, capacity planning of the products, and specifically for working with teams to deliver on high impact events with more than 1 Lakh RPM.

I am extremely passionate about innovation and have co-founded (and am running) various programs at CodingBlocks that drive the spirit of innovation forward, such as:
* Deploy, a startup incubator for budding developers coming to learn at Coding Blocks to drive the entrepreneurial spirit.
* Developed features and frameworks that helped increase membership growth by >65%.
* Campus Blocks, Coding Blocks Student Chapter to provide unique opportunities to learn and develop leadership skills, development, networking, mentoring and bonding for students in universities.  
* CodSule, a monthly online competition to identify talented software developers across India in which more than 2000 developers take part every month.

Project lead for Todo Cards:

Todo Cards is a micro-service consumed by Practo’s Health app. The service is written in NodeJS and acts as an aggregator for providing to-do cards of a user. It has a 95th percentile response time of 300 ms. I am responsible for HLD, LLD, implementation and integration with different Practo products.

Oneness: 
Oneness acts as an API gateway for Practo’s doctor side app. I am responsible for integrating different Practo products with oneness so as to provide a seem-less experience for user.

Holonet:
Holonet is a tool which is used to run campaigns and send mailers to Practo’s users. Implemented a rate limiter based on text similarity using tf-idf of the campaigns sent to a particular user.

I’m a member of the Stanford Crowd Research Collective, a worldwide group of researchers led by Michael Bernstein in Stanford CS. 
Got acknowledged in the research paper published under UIST 2016.

Developed a Content Management System for creating and handling content aggregator websites using Django and Python. Used AWS-EC2 Ubuntu AMI for cloud infrastructure to host the website using Nginx and Gunicorn.
Website in production: Paris vacation rentals

Worked in close coordination with the tech team to develop thesqua.re – an apartment rental service; operating in Paris, New York, London and New Delhi.

Developed commercial website: www.archersglobal.com for a freight company ‘Archers Global’,that involved : 
Knowledge of CMSs like Joomla! and WordPress 
Basic knowledge of scripting languages like javascript, jQuery and other languages like HTML, CSS

RECEX was an (unsuccessful) startup to develop web and mobile solutions specifically targetted at the college going audience.

Varun Hasija🇮🇳