iyerrajesh
Senior Product Manager
Senior Product Manager with 5+ years of experience shipping production-grade DeFi protocols and Layer-1 infrastructure across Cosmos, Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin L2s, and BSC. Led a cross-functional team of 10 across engineering, design, and growth, owning everything from mechanism design and staking economics to chain upgrades and mainnet operations. Scaled products to $100M+ TVL across a DEX, multi-chain liquid staking protocol, and a cross-chain intent-based exchange (ERC-7683), while maintaining Layer-1 reliability at 99%+ uptime. Built high-performance trading systems optimizing swap reliability, liquidity efficiency, and UX. Trusted to own economic logic, protocol safety, and end-to-end user journeys, with a strong track record of aligning engineers, ecosystem partners, and leadership to ship resilient products under ambiguity.
Experience: 6 years
Yearly salary: $100,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇮🇳 India
Residency: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Experience
Senior Product Manager
Persistence Labs 2022 - 2025
Owned three major product lines simultaneously: Core-1 chain infrastructure, Persistence DEX, and pSTAKE multi-chain liquid staking protocol. Managed Layer-1 reliability, upgrades, and production readiness across 60+ IBC-connected chains. Owned the end-to-end product lifecycle of Persistence DEX, evolving it from a native AMM (v1) to an intent-based, solver-driven cross-chain DEX (v2). Product lead for pSTAKE's multi-chain liquid staking suite across BTC, ATOM, ETH, and BNB.
Product Manager
Comdex 2021 - 2022
Defined and executed product vision for a Cosmos-based DeFi Layer 1, launching an integrated stack: AMM/DEX, lending markets, and a CDP-based stablecoin. Owned end-to-end product lifecycle from mechanism design and PRDs through testnet rollout, mainnet deployment, and post-launch iteration.
Software Developer
Tata Consultancy Services 2018 - 2021
Managed production infrastructure for Vodafone Idea services, serving 150M+ subscribers across India. Led incident response for high-severity outages across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
Skills
product-manager
english