prodopsguru

Vice President, Product And Operations

Web3 & AI Product and Operations Leader with 14 years across decentralized platforms, software engineering, and enterprise consulting, including 5 years as VP driving 0-to-1 strategy, protocol architecture, and execution in web3 area. Proven track record of delivering 7+ multi-chain products across GameFi, DeFi, DePIN, and AgentFi, scaling ecosystems to 450K+ users and 2M+ on-chain transactions. Combines an IIM MBA and Banking, Engineering foundation with proven capability in securing $3.4M in capital and institutional grants in Web3 ecosystem.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $40,000

Hourly rate: $100

Nationality: 🇮🇳 India

Residency: 🇮🇳 India


Experience

Vice President, Product & Operations
CoinFantasy
2021 - 2026
Web3 Product Head, driving product strategy, tech development roadmap, operations and execution across a portfolio of DeFi, DePIN, and AgentiFi products, taking initiatives from 0-to-1 through product design, development, deployment, GTM and ecosystem growth. Product Owner: Led end-to-end development of multiple Web3 products and protocols spanning GameFi, DePIN, DeFi, AgentFi, and No-code dApp builder. GameFi Ecosystem Scaling - Conceptualized, built, and launched CoinFantasy, a web3 blockchain based crypto stock portfolio game, planning GTM to scale from 0 to 450K+ users and enabling 2Mn+ on-chain transactions. AgentFi Platform - Designed & developed WallE, an agent intelligence trading platform leveraging wallet intelligence and persistent memory. After a GTM rebuild, achieved 20K waitlist in one week. DePIN & DeFi Protocol - Developed working prototype GRID protocol and XIELD protocol to unify fragmented DePIN ecosystems under a single index and enable active and passive yield to Gamers respectively in Solana. No-Code Web3 AI Infrastructure - Developed dApp.fun, an AI no-code platform enabling business users (non-coders) to generate and deploy smart contracts, and ready to launch decentralized application in minutes. Capital & Grant Acquisition: Secured a $2.9M fund in pre-seed from leading ecosystem investors including Avalanche and Polygon and over USD 500K grants in tranches by presenting product prototype and robust product metrics from various funds with majorly secured from Hedera Foundation. Team & Operations: Led 40+ member Product, Engineering & Design team, coordinating roadmap execution, product delivery, design, technical development and launch operations. AI-Accelerated Product Development: Spearheaded AI product intervention since 2025, to rapidly generate Figma UI prototype with frontend code, PRDs, test edge-case matrices, and documentation-to-prompt-to-product workflow before committing engineering resources, shortening the dev cycle. Cloud & Tools: Worked across AWS, GCP, AWS Bedrock, AI/ML pipelines, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Claude Code, Antigravity and modern AI development environments.
Principal Associate
Indian Political Action Committee
2017 - 2021
Led key client engagements, project delivery, production software rollouts, and community growth bridging executive stakeholder requirements with field & digital operations, hands-on data and engineering delivery. Strategic Roadmap Ownership: Formulated and executed an 18-month project roadmap phased across 5 operational stages, aligning marketing campaigns, technology, and field operations to engage 62M constituents. High-Concurrency Application Deployment: Scoped, co-architected, and launched "Stalin Ani," a gamified mobile platform built for cadre engagement; achieved 400K+ downloads within the first 4 weeks of launch. Digital Community Growth: Built and deployed a web-based registration infrastructure that enabled 3Mn+ digital memberships in 100 days. 0-to-1 Organizational Leadership: Built from scratch and led a 320+ member multi-disciplinary team spanning Product, Data, Engineering, Intelligence & Field Ops; institutionalized SLA trackers to maintain execution velocity. Client-Facing Solution Architecture: Served as the primary authority for high-stakes government and political clients; led discovery, technical & operational feasibility assessments, and UAT cutovers for campaign execution. Revenue & Business Development: Structured, pitched and secured 2 strategic state political projects, and 1 state governance project; Contributed 2x annual revenue growth & expansion into new consulting engagements.

Skills

agile
ai
aws
dapp
dataops
defi
depin
developer-relations
engineering-manager
ethereum
finance
gaming
gcp
gtm
head-of-design
operations
product-lead
product-manager
product-marketing
project-manager
protocol
quality-assurance
retention-marketing
smart-contract
solana
strategy
tech-lead
user acquisition
english