Gaurava Agarwal

A Visionary Product & Engineering Leader, bringing a wealth of expertise in design thinking and a proven track record of delivering innovative customer focused solutions. Skillset is deeply rooted in comprehensive market analysis, ensuring that product features not only align with company’s platform vision but also meet future growth. With over 15 years of experience, I specialize in leading cross-functional teams, fostering an environment where teamwork translates into success. Demonstrated a strong commitment to building strong partnership through stakeholder management, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, and embodying an entrepreneurial spirit, all with the goal of delivering exceptional customer value.

• Bridged the gap between business needs, user experience, and technical feasibility with customer interviews and converted them into prioritized product requirement documents & user stories.
• Played a key role in enhancing the Organization's Schema Governance processes by ideating the schema lifecycle, unifying data governance, defining MVP, and strengthening the infrastructure of 'Autodesk Platform Service'.
• Inspired every developer using the 'voice of customer' and 'customer needs', thereby contributing to the augmentation of the 'value of the product'.
• Improved stakeholder management by establishment of focus groups comprising Platform Architects and engineering leaders to execute product strategy, guaranteeing future alignment across multiple divisions. (Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC), Manufacturing (MFG), Media & Entertainment (M&E), and Data Exchange).



Achievements: 
• Conducted a comprehensive market research of schema management solutions, pinpointing investment opportunities, benchmarking against competitors, & devising a Go-To-Market (GTM) plan.
• Devised and executed a distinctive Schema regionalization strategy that aligned with Autodesk's vision for regionalization. This strategy catered to both global and regionalized needs, resulting in significant cost savings by preventing data duplication across different regions.
• Enabled the Data Exchange division to make strategic investment decisions by successfully exploring key use cases to find out unresolved customer problems for GraphQL Geometry Research project. 
• Received the 'Autobucks Award' in recognition of demonstrating leadership in adopting best practices to improve the team's engineering and Agile processes, thereby exhibiting a commitment to enhancing 'Customer Satisfaction' and maximizing value creation.

Masters in Computer Application

Product Management course from SMU and Stanford