a short professional history

Resume

Ten-plus years building and scaling B2B SaaS, API platforms, and fintech systems — told here in straighter sentences.

Nimish Khandelwal

product leader · B2B SaaS, APIs, fintech, AI
experience
  • 2023 — now
    Product Manager · Zuora (Togai → Zuora Mediation)
    • Lead product on Zuora Mediation — the data ingestion & processing layer behind usage-based billing.
    • Shipped a customer-facing AI agent that writes transformation logic from natural language; evolving toward full pipeline creation.
    • Launched an internal AI agent for product queries, expanding into logs, diagnostics, and service health.
    • Drove ~30% lift in customer onboarding over the past year through UX, docs, and integration revamps.
    • Currently shaping AI monetization strategy for the platform.
  • 2021 — 2023
    Founding Product Manager · Phyllo
    • Drove product vision for an AI-first influencer-marketing SaaS — grew to >$300K ARR as a new revenue stream.
    • Built AI-driven brand safety & social screening, transforming content moderation.
    • Ran PLG via micro-apps and free tools — ~400K page views/month in organic acquisition.
    • Automated usage-based billing across 20+ API & SaaS products; +10% revenue recognition.
    • Worked closely with CEO on a successful $15M Series A — analyses, investor decks, financial dashboards.
  • 2020 — 2021
    Product Manager · Upstox (RKSV Securities)
    • Revamped payments end-to-end — +5% overall success rate.
    • Launched internal support portal now serving ~50,000 requests/day.
    • Shipped margin pledge, news, analytics & OFS; news alone reaches 1M+ users.
    • Overhauled trade-reporting platform (Keystone) — usage doubled within a month.
  • 2019 — 2020
    Country Head, Middle East · Finmechanics
    • Owned revenue, strategy, and P&L for the ME office — 10 projects across 6 clients, targeting 25% YoY growth.
    • Led pre-sales on 8+ deals; managed 7 consultants delivering a front-to-back treasury platform for 70+ users at a top ME remittance firm.
    • Designed integrations with 11 trading platforms, 5 transaction systems, 2 payment systems, market data and accounting — 0.1M daily transactions across 31 countries.
  • 2014 — 2019
    Product Consultant → Senior Consultant · Finmechanics (India & MENA)
    • Helped set up the first MENA office — pre-sales, sales, compliance and strategy alongside CXOs.
    • Built a market-risk analytics tool with 20× performance improvement.
    • Implemented branch trade booking for 2 leading Indian private banks (1M+ customers) and a real-time price-manufacturing platform for FX rates.
    • Built an ETL platform between trade and risk systems — 50% TAT reduction. Nominated for best project execution.
on the side
  • ongoing
    Independent · small internet products · BabyBees24 · DateTimeHelp · Clipera · PhotoFrameSize

    Lean, SEO-driven micro-products built around real user problems and organic discovery.

education
  • 2010 — 2014
    Integrated Master’s in Chemistry (Minor in Statistics) · IIT Bombay
  • 2020 — 2022
    Master’s in Financial Engineering · WorldQuant University
  • 2014 — 2018
    FRM · CFA Level 1 · Certifications
what I bring
  • B2B SaaS · API platforms
  • Usage-based billing · Fintech
  • 0→1 product building
  • Scaling mature systems
  • AI-native product design
  • Product · Engineering · Business strategy

References, like good wine, available on request.