Meet Bhagdev

Principal Product Manager | Amazon Web Services

Profile

Tenured product manager who loves working on improving developer experiences, databases, open source, and the cloud

About me

I am a product manager by trade and have spent most of time building and growing cloud services. I am a problem solver who likes to challenge assumptions and design innovating solutions. I am currently a Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services focusing on NoSQL database services such as Amazon Keyspaces. I am originally from India and moved to the United States in 2011 to study at University of California, UCLA. I enjoy all things data and open source.

Meet Bhagdev

Details

Name:
Meet Bhagdev
Age:
31 years
Location:
Seattle, WA, Earth

Experiences

“Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”
- Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything

Educations

University of California, Los Angeles

Sep 2011 - Dec 2014

Bachelor - Computer Science Coursework focused on Computer Science fundamentals such as algorithms, operating systems, and networking. Took specific electives in Databases, Mobile Developement, and Artificial Inteligence Los Anageles

Careers

Amazon Web Services

Jul 2022 - current

Fulltime - Principal Product Manager and Lead PM @ Amazon Keyspaces Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. I currently work as a lead product manager on Amazon DocumentDB, AWS's scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. My day to day invovles building and designing capabilities customers are asking for, planning the roadmap, working with go-to-market partners, and handling key customer relationships. Seattle, WA, USA | https://aws.amazon.com/

Amazon Web Services

Mar 2020 - Jul 2022

Fulltime - Senior Product Manager @ Amazon DocumentDB Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. I currently work as a lead product manager on Amazon DocumentDB, AWS's scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. My day to day invovles building and designing capabilities customers are asking for, planning the roadmap, working with go-to-market partners, and handling key customer relationships. Seattle, WA, USA | https://aws.amazon.com/

Microsoft

Mar 2014 - Mar 2020

Full time - Product Manager @ Azure SQL Microsoft Azure, is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services, including compute, analytics, storage and networking. I spent 5 years at Microsoft Azure as a product manager, launching several database services such as Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Arc databases, and Azure Synapse Analytics. I also focused on enabling developers to connect and build applications with traditional Microsoft database such as SQL Server using the langauges such as Node.js and Python on Linux and macOS. Seattle, WA, USA | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/

Abilities

“Life without knowledge is death in disguise.”
- Talib Kweli

Skills

  • Go to market
  • MongoDB
  • Product Development
  • Product Management
  • SQL Server
  • User Research
  • JQuery
  • PostgreSQL
  • CSS
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • PHP

Languages

  • English (Daily use)
  • Gujarati (Mother tongue)
  • Hindi (Proficient)
  • Serbian/Croatian (Survivable)

Interests

“You can do anything you set your mind to.”
- Benjamin Franklin

Biking

Biking

I love riding my bike around town. I have two bikes - one road bike and a Vanmoof electric bike. Highly recommend Vanmoof btw

Board games

Board games

I live in Seattle, so board games make for a perfect activity in the winters. Catan, Camel Up, and Splendor are some of my favs

Sports

Sports

I couldn't live without sports. I love watching cricket, basketball, tennis, football, american football and UFC

Travel

Travel

Beyond the day to day stuff, I spend most of my money on travelling. I've visited 22 countries and visited all continents except South America and Antractica, although I should be able to knock one of them out soon

Contact

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. ”
- Henry Ford