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Education
Certification
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Aaishwarya Chandra

Aaishwarya Chandra

Business Consultant | Business Strategy & Product Development
C-703, Bren Celestia, Kaikondrahali, Sarjapur Road, Bangaluru

Summary

8+ years of experience in technology consulting, business strategy, and product development driving digital transformation, competitive growth, and operational efficiency. Proven expertise in process optimization, cross-functional leadership, and client advisory across industries. Strong track record in stakeholder management, solution design, and platform strategy with exposure to global clients and multicultural teams.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

CEO/Business Consultant

Aclaran Innovations Private Limited
07.2019 - 03.2025
  • Delivered technology and business consulting for 30+ clients (incl. Matsan Global, Ganpati Foods, Madhusudan Sohani, Ramesh Retnasamy) enhancing business performance and improving client conversion rates by 40–85%.
  • Demonstrated financial acumen by optimizing pricing strategies, identifying revenue streams, and achieving substantial revenue growth, totaling approx. 52 lakhs.
  • Designed platform and product strategies, driving end-to-end product lifecycle (0–1 development, user journeys, PRDs, roadmaps, and Agile iterations).
  • Successfully coached and consulted more than 10,000 students from across over 12 countries through platforms like Udemy.
  • Applied process automation methodologies to streamline workflows, resulting in a significant reduction in operational costs by 25% and lead time by 45%.
  • Created and mentored cross-functional team of 12, including design, engineering, marketing, and customer support, to ensure seamless product development, launch, and maintenance.
  • Worked closely with marketing team, to amplify social media presence amassing over 11,000 followers across various platforms.
  • Employed user-centered design principles to create intuitive and engaging product experiences. Collected and analyzed user feedback to make data-driven product improvements.
  • Diligently monitored product performance metrics, conducting regular reviews to identify engagement rates, and using insights to drive strategic enhancements and market penetration.
  • Applied data-driven decision-making using analytics and feedback loops to improve user engagement and product adoption.

Jr. Product Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solution
06.2016 - 05.2019
  • Developed, tested, and deployed solutions for application management and enhancement tasks in insurance domain (Vantage platform).
  • Improved latency time during RCA on repetitive errors by 18%.
  • Preparing Functional and Technical specification.
  • Partnered with leaders, SMEs, and PMs to translate business/technical requirements into functional and technical specifications.
  • Designing, Coding and Unit Testing for various Enhancement tasks and Bug-fix of programs in current application as per technical specification.
  • Client interactions and co-ordination with team members for various client specific tasks.
  • Generating various ADHOC and critical reports as per requirement of business and various pro-active process improvements of GVUL system.
  • Coordinated directly with global clients and internal stakeholders to drive requirement gathering, solution delivery, and performance improvements.

Education

Executive MBA - General Management

IIM Shillong
Shillong
03-2026

B. Tech - Electronics & Communication

S.R.M University

Xth And XIIth - Science

City Montessori School

Certification

DL101: Intellectual Property Rights, WIPO Switzerland

Skills

  • Product Planning: Product Strategy & Roadmap, User Journey Mapping, PRDs & Mocks
  • Product Execution: Agile Product Development, Waterfall Product
  • Development Technology Skills: MySql, Java, Google Analytics
  • Product Tools: Jira, Confluence
  • Technical Skills: MySQL, Java, Cobol, Solidity
  • Automation A.I Tools: ChatGPT, Tome.app, Adobe Express, Elevenlabs.com, Perplexity.ai
  • Additional Tools: Figma, ThePlot.io, G-Suit, MS Office, Canva
  • Additional Skills: Stakeholder Management, Go To Market Strategy, Negotiation, Organizational Turnaround, Client Management & Consulting, Customer Obsession, Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Accomplishments

  • Achieved GMAT score of 690 with 20/21 accuracy in Quantitative section, demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Prevented over 1,045 metric tonnes of waste—equivalent to planting 100 million trees—by helping file a PIL (7601/2015) through NGO C-CARBONS, leading to a state-wide plastic ban in Uttar Pradesh.
  • Developed & Deployed cryptocurrency tokens CRIC and GENRE. Trained over 10000+ students from over 12 countries.
  • Public Speaking - Raising awareness on environment conservation, speaking at various seminars and social campaigns.
  • Elected 'Student Technical Association' coordinator, Official E&C Branch Society with over 1800+ members. Successfully coordinated Branch. Fest 'Jhankar' 2014, S.R.M University.
  • House Captain 2004-05, Prefect 2008-09.
  • School Cricket Captain 2011.
  • Topper Physics IX, Hindi X, CMS Lucknow, 2009/10.

Projects

Metlife GUL, GVUL 2017-19, Kolkata, India

  • This project is based on Vantage Application on insurance domain involving application management, enhancements, migrations, consolidations, ADHOC activities and support for new application development.


Ganpati Food Services 2018-2019, Kolkata, India

  • This project is based on Business Consultancy Services. As a pro bono consultant restructured operations, achieved a 7-fold sales increase, reduced partner expenses (from 47.5% to 27.5%), optimized processes, shortened processing time by 40%, lowering production costs by 18%. Elevated ARPU from INR 82 to 128, and revenue recovery by 12% through billing and inventory tracking spreadsheets.


Mr. Madhusudan Sohani, Professor Mumbai University. 2023-24, Mumbai, India

  • This project focuses on product development for clients, encompassing aspects like course design, trailer creation, course description, cover design, instructor biography, course lectures and optimization of other landing page elements. These efforts yielded a notable increase in course click-through rates, from 25% to 50%, and conversion rates, from 40% to 85%.

Publications

1. Author,"The Intelligent Cryptocurrency Investor". Available as Book on Amazon, Audiobook on 20+ Platforms.


2. Course Instructor, 'Business Management',' Product Development' and 'Cryptocurrency' On Platforms Like Udemy & Skillsuccess.


3. "Flood Intimation Through GSM With User Programmable Number To Stationmaster" ,International Journal Of Advanced Research Engineering Technology & Sciences or IJAR ETS , May 2016.

Timeline

Digital Marketing

03-2024

Product Management Course. Evan Kimbrell, Founder Sprintkick

09-2023

CEO/Business Consultant

Aclaran Innovations Private Limited
07.2019 - 03.2025

DL101: Intellectual Property Rights, WIPO Switzerland

03-2017

Jr. Product Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solution
06.2016 - 05.2019

Executive MBA - General Management

IIM Shillong

B. Tech - Electronics & Communication

S.R.M University

Xth And XIIth - Science

City Montessori School
Aaishwarya ChandraBusiness Consultant | Business Strategy & Product Development