Open to Product Manager Roles

Sandeep
Kumar

UW Foster MBA '27 · Ex-SanDisk

Technology leader with 7 years driving product strategy across automotive, IoT, and mobile storage — generating $300M+ in combined revenue impact. Dean's Merit Scholar at UW Foster School of Business, Seattle.

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Sandeep Kumar

UW Foster MBA Candidate '27
Dean's Merit Scholar · Seattle, WA
$300M+
Revenue Impact
7 Yrs
Experience
50+
B2B Customers Served
6
Global Regions
Product Strategy NLP / AI Automotive IoT ASPICE CL3
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Experience

Technical Product Manager
Mar 2024 – Aug 2025
SanDisk (Western Digital) · Bengaluru
  • Owned end-to-end product roadmap for a data reliability storage product for automotive clients; led full PDLC from requirements through launch across 6 global regions.
  • Deployed a local LLM-powered automation tool for traceability across MRDs, PRDs, and downstream artifacts — delivering the industry's first ASPICE CL3 safety certification.
  • Built and led a 5-member IP committee producing 4 patents and 2 trade secrets through a structured IP roadmap.
$140M ARR · ASPICE CL3 · 4 Patents
Staff Firmware Engineer
Jul 2022 – Feb 2024
SanDisk (Western Digital) · Bengaluru
  • Drove a firmware-level workaround strategy to overcome hardware constraints, enabling $35M in revenue from automotive clients by accelerating time-to-market.
  • Captured $50M in new market opportunity by identifying unmet IoT privacy needs and leading a security-focused feature rollout.
  • Reduced international handover time by 30% through a gap analysis and mentoring framework for global teams.
$85M Revenue · 30% Efficiency Gain
Senior Systems Design Engineer
Aug 2021 – Jun 2022
SanDisk (Western Digital) · Bengaluru
  • Conceptualized a validation platform with data visualization dashboards, improving code coverage by 12% and reducing internal defects.
  • Led end-to-end validation for a fast-boot automotive feature, meeting rigorous quality gates to secure $45M in revenue.
  • Resolved performance thrashing via 1,000+ system trace analyses, achieving a 5% improvement in sustained write speeds.
$45M Revenue · 12% Coverage Improvement
Systems Design Engineer
Jul 2018 – Jul 2021
SanDisk (Western Digital) · Bengaluru
  • Improved CX metrics by 14% by synthesizing customer pain points to redesign internal replication systems mirroring real-world data flows.
  • Mitigated $25M in financial risk by coordinating a rapid-response patch with engineering partners in Israel and South Korea.
  • Led a 3-member team designing virtual engagement initiatives for 150+ employees, boosting satisfaction during remote transitions.
14% CX Improvement · $25M Risk Mitigated
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GitHub Projects

Public
Twitter-Sentiment-Analyzer
Collects tweets and applies a Naive Bayes classifier to categorize them as positive, negative, or neutral using NLP techniques.
Python →
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DenoiseDirtyDoc
Image processing pipeline to clean and denoise scanned or photographed dirty documents using computer vision techniques.
Python →
Public
CommentAbuseClassify
ML model to identify and classify toxic or abusive online comments, applying text classification and NLP research methods.
Python →
Public
HackTheAIProject
A command-line based game blending interactive storytelling with AI mechanics for an engaging terminal experience.
Python →
Public
DjangoSite
Full-stack web application built with Django, demonstrating MVC architecture and Python-backed web development.
Python →
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Education

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UW Foster School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Aug 2025 – Aug 2027 · Seattle, WA
Dean's Merit Scholar
🖥️
Delhi Technological University (DTU)
B.Tech, Computer Science
2014 – 2018 · Delhi, India
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AVB Public School
High School — Science
2008 – 2014
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Contact

Let's connect
& build.

Actively seeking Product Manager roles. Open to full-time opportunities, consulting, and collaborations in tech, automotive, or AI-adjacent domains.

sk3.sandeep7@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/sandeepkr3 github.com/sandeepkr3
// Skills & Expertise
Product & Strategy
Product Roadmap PDLC Go-to-Market Cross-functional Leadership
Technical
Firmware Systems Design NLP / AI Python Django
Domains
Automotive IoT Data Storage ASPICE
Languages
English (Professional) Hindi (Native)