About

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Hi, I’m Vihari.

I’m a Product Manager from Bangalore. I am passionate about building products, both Physical and Digital.

Currently, I am part of the Product team at Tekion; working on a revolutionary, new-age E-Commerce platform for Automotive Retail.

Before this, I worked as a Hardware Electronics Engineer at Johnson Controls. Here, I had worked on the design of Smart Thermostats and IOT sensors that are currently being used in a number of Smart Buildings all over the world.

I also have 2 Patents from USPTO for some of the work I had done at Johnson Controls

You can get in touch with me on LinkedIn ↗

Work Experience

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Apr 2023 - Present

Building a seamless automotive retail experience from Brand to Store to Consumer.

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Apr 2022 - Jun 2022

I interned for two months at Bain & Company where I worked in their Enterprise Technology practice. I had an oppurtinity to work with a U.S. Fortune 500 software company and a fintech unicorn during my time there.

I received a crash course on technology strategy and transformation, digital transformation and technology cost management.

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Jul 2017 - May 2021

At Johnson Controls, I worked on End to End Product Design (Development through Production) of IOT sensors and Smart Thermostats.

While my primary responsibility was hardware circuit design, I got the opportunity to work on the entire Product Life Cycle.

I worked on

Product ideation (Market research, competitor teardown, customer interview, brainstorming)
Market sizing and revenue projection
Validating MVP with pilot customers
Testing & Debugging
Design for mass manufacture
Field validation.

This helped me discover my love for building products and steered me towards a career in Product Management.

Here are some of cool products I had worked on at Johnson Controls.