Shiva Badruswamy

Shiva Badruswamy, simply put, excels at critical thinking and solving complex problems in agile environments. After all, he is a Certified Scrum Product Owner. Shiva collaborates with smart people to bring game changing ideas to life.Throughout his career, leaders have sought him for launching, life cycle managing and marketing complex, high-value SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Applications, Data and Services ecosystems. Workloads Shiva has launched include Advanced Analytics, Big Data, Healthcare CRM, Mobile Broadband data, and E-Commerce/Campaign Management platforms. His launches are mostly NPIs, with large feature-set built on asynchronous Cloud systems extended by stateless API web services, servicing thousands of B2B/B2C customers, partners, developers.
Having worked in both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups, Shiva bring forth an entrepreneurial “fail-fast, learn, iterate” agility, a growth-hacking mindset, and intrinsic focus on unit-cost economics. He also backs his launch decisions with thorough business cases, validated market-learning data, competition/user behavior models, persona-driven epics/stories/feature/UX prioritization, cross-functional road-mapping leadership, up-to-date knowledge of cloud/web services/security tech stack and their impacts on user value vs build difficulty vs DevOps cost/time trade-offs. Besides managing and launching products, Shiva also excels in building user-friendly, revenue sustaining pricing and packaging models, and, on the product marketing side,  working with agencies to build and launch “call to action” collateral for all stages of a customer’s buying journey.
Shiva Badruswamy continuously learns about latest product management & marketing techniques, and hyper scale, extensible, secure distributed computing stacks. Shiva holds certifications from McKinsey Management Program - Problem Solving, Udemy’s Product Management, Udemy's AWS and Azure Foundations, Stanford University's AI/ML (Octave Programming), Carnegie Mellon's Statistical Analysis (R Programming), and Sirius Decisions’ Product Marketing pathways. Also, he is currently working on completing 2 important masters level certifications - Foundations of Computing from Rice Univeristy and Cloud Computing from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Shiva actively posts well-received, original work in top product management community social media plus his own blog. His LinkedIn profile showcases 2 dozen+ actual work deliverables, e-books, continuing education credentials, and strong references/recommendations.