Karthik Ks
Product Management at Sony Interactive Entertainment
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Product Management
2023 - Current
Product Management Lead for AI/Data Platform at PlayStation - AI/ML Infrastructure: Scaling Trust & Safety and audio experiences for 100m+ MAU on PlayStation - AI/ML Infra Strategy: driving company-wide AI data & GPU/HPC compute strategy to enable ML at scale - Real-Time Data Experiences: Building world class experiences on PlayStation powered by real-time data - Data Platform-as-a-Service
Venture Scout | Angel Investor
2022
Investing in and partnering with early stage startups (pre-seed, seed, Series A) in SaaS/B2B2C/Enterprise/Productivity, FinTech and Web3/Crypto verticals. Reach out if you're building something awesome!
Senior Product Manager
2021 - 2023
Building Real-Time data applications with Apache Druid® Lead Product Manager for: - Apache Druid query & solutions: Drove $xM incremental revenue growth and open source adoption by shipping marquee features on Druid (Asynchronous/Slower-running queries, Semi-structured data, Schema Auto-discovery and various Druid SQL functionality) - Product-Led Growth & GTM for SaaS: Envisioned and set up end-to-end data infrastructure (from telemetry to dashboarding) and scaled the GTM playbook from the ground-up for PLG and Product-Led Sales for Polaris (SaaS offering), scaling the Imply GTM teams to be able to take on more leads - Application layer: Drove $xxxK incremental revenue and enterprise adoption for Imply products by ideating and launching capabilities on the application layer (Embedded Analytics, etc.) - Druid Ecosystem: partnerships, integrations etc: Drove adoption of Imply and Apache Druid at enterprise customers with a Tableau connector.
Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Raised $215,300,000.00 from OMERS Growth Equity, Thoma Bravo, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Product Manager
2020 - 2021
Contentstack is a leading API - first, microservices based, content management platform - Data Products: AI/ML, Data Engineering - Growth: Trial Products, Onboarding, Engagement - GTM: Enterprise and Product-Led Growth (PLG) - Cloud Cost Management
Contentstack is the leading composable digital experience platform (DXP) provider used by enterprises to deliver digital experiences.
Raised $169,000,000.00 from Georgian, Insight Partners and Illuminate Ventures.
President
2019 - 2020
A student-led organization that aims to centralize and develop education, community and innovation in the field of financial technology
Product Manager Intern
2019 - 2019
Thoughtspot is a search-driven, next gen cloud analytics platform built for the enterprise - Product discovery (core product), roadmap - Competitive Strategy, positioning and benchmarking - UX Research & Onboarding - Product Analytics & Instrumentation
ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company. Its mission is to create a fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform.
Raised $663,700,000.00 from 2Shares and IPOSharks.
Fixed Income
2011 - 2018
Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Corporate Bond and Structured Financing for HFs/MFs/Banks
Quantitative Analyst
2010 - 2011
Byte Consulting is a provider of financial products and technology solutions for institutional investors.