Anirudh Rao
@anirudhrao
Product leader with 14+ years building platforms and AI-enabled operational products across fintech, logistics, and marketplaces.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a product leader with 14+ years of experience building platform and consumer products across ecommerce, mobility, agritech, and climate technology. I define product strategy, own technical roadmaps, and work closely with engineering teams to ship products in complex operational environments—spanning payments, logistics, marketplaces, IoT, and AI-enabled workflows.
Most recently, at Lenskart, I owned product strategy and roadmaps across checkout, payments, fulfillment, catalog, and partner platform capabilities—improving payment authorization rates by ~5% through checkout optimization and building international payment capabilities for global integrations and revenue visibility. I also launched real-time fraud detection to improve trust with minimal friction and led the rollout of a first 2-hour powered eyeglasses delivery capability through intelligent order orchestration.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Product / Platform Leadership
Lenskart Solutions Ltd.
Sep 2025 - Present (11 months)
Owned product strategy and roadmap across checkout, payments, fulfillment, catalog, and partner platform capabilities. Improved payment authorization rates (~5%) and built international payment capabilities, a real-time fraud detection platform, and intelligent order orchestration for 2-hour powered eyeglasses delivery.
Head of Product
Everest Carbon
Jun 2023 - Jul 2025 (2 years 1 month)
Defined product strategy for an IoT platform spanning hardware, mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, and customer dashboards. Built scalable data platforms and internal/customer-facing applications to support deployments across 2,000+ acres.
Head – Farm Business
Nurture.Farm (UPL Agtech)
May 2020 - May 2023 (3 years)
Owned a farm mechanization business serving 500K+ farmers across 10M+ acres. Built a technology-enabled partner platform and led the EndTheBurn initiative to serve 25K+ farmers while reducing stubble burning by 90%+.
Staff Technical Program Manager
Qubole
Oct 2018 - May 2020 (1 year 7 months)
Led delivery of Qubole Data Service on Google Cloud, increasing customer adoption by 50%. Drove platform modernization via Kubernetes migration and improved release reliability by 90% through deployment automation and engineering governance.
Senior Technical Program Manager
Ola
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018 (2 years 9 months)
Led launch of Ola Outstation, scaling to ~40K weekly bookings. Managed platform initiatives including partner integrations for UK expansion, migrated Ola Money from AWS to Azure, and improved deployment speed by 90% through modernization of release infrastructure.
Product Manager
SimpleWealth
May 2015 - Nov 2015 (6 months)
Built core lending features and a credit scoring model for a P2P lending platform.
Software Engineer
EMC Corporation
Aug 2011 - Mar 2014 (2 years 7 months)
Software engineering role at EMC Corporation.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Indian School of Business
Master of Business Administration, Business Administration
2014 - 2015
Completed an MBA program at Indian School of Business (Hyderabad) from 2014 to 2015.
PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics Engineering
2007 - 2011
Completed a B.E. in Electronics at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore from 2007 to 2011.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
IndiaAuthorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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