PRODUCT LEADERSHIP · PUNE, INDIA
Rahul
Desai.
Principal Technical Product Manager
Enterprise SaaS • Product Strategy • AI-Driven Innovation
SCROLL TO EXPLOREBuild what matters.Customer insight to product impact
THE THROUGHLINE
Technical depth.
Business perspective.
Product and technology leader with 20+ years of experience spanning enterprise software, product delivery, and entrepreneurship.
Combines technical depth and business acumen to translate customer insights into impactful product capabilities. Owns the Portfolios module in Oracle Primavera Cloud, driving backlog priorities, product usability, adoption, and commercial value through customer feedback and usage analytics.
Certified in Product Management with Gen and Agentic AI.
SELECTED WORK AT ORACLE
Impact, in practice.
Customer insight, product decisions, measurable outcomes.
Product modernization01
~3×
Resource planning, accelerated
Replaced a legacy custom-built interface with the core product framework, then broke the experience into focused pages for clearer, faster work.
Adoption driven at 2 key customers with large real-world datasets
Adoption & analytics02
+7
Portfolio evaluation, expanded
Made Portfolio Evaluation more flexible to serve a wider range of customer needs and real-world planning practices.
Adoption tracked with Heap analytics across 7 additional customers
Customer value03
4↗
Portfolio scorecard, modernized
Improved usability, enriched functionality, and exposed every column to make the scorecard more useful to portfolio teams.
4 customers expanded from Schedule-only to Portfolio licenses, informed by Heap behavior and customer bug analysis
HOW I WORK
A range of perspective.
From customer discovery to delivery and quality governance.
Product management
- Product strategy
- Backlog ownership
- Prioritization
- Requirements & user stories
- Customer discovery
Data & execution
- Usage insights
- Agile delivery
- Cross-functional leadership
- Outcome measurement
Domain & technology
- Oracle Primavera Cloud
- Portfolio management
- Enterprise SaaS
- CAD solutions
- Generative & Agentic AI
Technical leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Agile delivery
- Quality governance
CAREER PATH
Built across disciplines.
From engineering design and software entrepreneurship to enterprise product leadership.
Feb 2022 — Present
Principal Technical Product Manager
Oracle India Private Limited
Own the Portfolios module in Oracle Primavera Cloud, shaping backlog priorities, product usability, adoption, and commercial value through customer feedback and usage analytics.
Oct 2014 — Jan 2022
QA Manager / Principal QA Engineer
Oracle India Private Limited
Led quality delivery across Primavera Cloud, Aconex, CIC, and Enterprise Track.
Sept 2006 — Oct 2014
QA Leadership
Synerzip & Symphony Services
Led QA teams for enterprise portfolio and fuel-management applications. Introduced reusable Selenium/Java automation, cutting legacy test conversion time by 80%.
July 1996 — Sep 2006
Co-Founder
Cyberia Grafix / CAD Software & Solutions
Ran a CAD software and solutions business, delivering engineering design software and services along with design automation tools.
FOUNDATION & CREDENTIALS
Always learning.
A foundation in engineering, business, quality, and emerging AI.
Product Management with Gen and Agentic AI
Certification
Marketing
MIT School of Management, Pune
Mechanical Engineering
Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune
ISTQB Certified Tester
Certification