
Shekhar Yeleswarapu
Founder
Salary / Daily rate
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Product Manager with 10+ years driving growth for global platforms like DAZN and Irdeto. Generated $12M+ ROI through AI-powered fraud detection and streamlined operations, managing 50+ enterprise clients. Specializing in payments, e-commerce optimization, and SaaS product strategy with proven expertise in scaling B2B solutions.
Work experience
Senior Technical Product Manager
DAZNFreelance
May 2025 - Present
1 year 6 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Enabling content discoverability across 50+ partner platforms, including OEMs like Samsung, LG, Sony PlayStation, and Hisense VIDAA; operators such as Comcast, Orange, Sky, and Telefónica; and integrators like Gracenote and Media Press. Focused on delivering metadata-driven experiences through search, featured rails, and recommendations on living room devices. Driving standardisation via open API integrations, domain modeling, and optimized metadata mapping for seamless partner consumption.
Founder
ProductHausFreelance
May 2025 - Present
1 year 6 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Producthaus is a modern freelance studio that specializes in solving complex problems through strategic product thinking, sharp execution, and clean design. It represents a bold, go-getter mindset—where ideas are mapped, built, and delivered with purpose. From product management to UX and spatial design, Producthaus is where strategy meets action.
Senior Product Manager
Irdeto
Oct 2023 - May 2025
1 year 8 months
Hoofddorp, Netherlands
Strategized & executed DRM SaaS product with 50+ customers (B2B) by giving visibility to product roadmap with Widevine, PlayReady & Fairplay end to end integration and managing entitlements with a cross functional team of 15. Tier 1 customers: Paramount, Disney, Charter, Apple, FuboTV, DAZN, Liberty Global, ITV, Astro, AIS, Digi Turk Created Cybersecurity product enablers like Concurrent stream management, geo restrictions, Anti-fraud management, credential sharing including APL (approved pricing). Contributed to additional 2M in recurring revenue. Streamlined 25% of AWS cloud infra costs saving 1M+/year recurring, better scalability while onboarding 6 customers. Launched AI/ML based fraud detection to block 500K unauthorized access, generating $2M+ in recurring revenue. MVP LLM and generative AI chat prototype, reducing credential sharing & unauthorized access (geo fencing), High profile events. Onboarded 7 enterprise customers to SaaS product ‘Control multi-DRM’, while supporting through RFP, RFQ, RFI with sales, pre-sales, legal, ops to onboard. Customers like Astro, AIS, Digi Turk, Delta fibre NL, Rogers, Paramount+. Developed business cases generating $12M+ ROI, presented to CPO, CTO, and leadership Managed data warehouse products as DBaaS, IaaS that streamed billions of transactions to 50+ enterprise customers using AWS Kinesis, Kafka, Oracle DB, Oracle EM, and monitoring & observability. Profit & loss management (PnL), Quarterly, half-yearly (H1/H2), and long-term product planning, presented QBRs to senior stakeholders and C-suites, senior leadership.
DAZN
Jan 2020 - Oct 2023
3 years 10 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Senior Product Manager @ Monetization & Payments
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
8 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Skills: Retrospectives · Technical Requirements · Regulatory Requirements · Project Portfolio Management · Product Delivery · Software Development · B2B2C · Skilled Multi-tasker · Stakeholder Management · Presentations · Pricing Optimization · Demand Generation · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Backlog Management · Customer Engagement · Business-to-Business (B2B) · Business Acumen · Customer Value · Business Consulting · Auditing · Technical Sales Consulting · Strategic Thinking · B2C · Digital Applications · FinTech · Product Lifecycle Management · Creativity and Innovation · Product Strategies · Emerging Trends · Quality Management · Teamwork · Management Consulting · Jira · Product Leadership · Competitive Intelligence · Analytical Skills · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Product Requirements
Product Manager @ Payments & Partnerships
Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
2 years 7 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Products owned : 1. Third party payments subscriptions - Apple, Google, Amazon & Roku notifications 2. Direct carrier billing & bundling. 3. Checkout and shopping cart experience. Strategizing the roadmap for products, discovery of the potential features, gathering insights or data to back the initiative, break the features/epics to detailed user stories, refine the stories with dev teams, prioritize features, planning the sprint aligning the product vision, experimentation, calculating ROI, Analyze/build KPI to track the performance, build internal tools to make customer support seamless. Stakeholder management - o Working with external vendors/parties (Zuora, Boku, Apple, Google & Roku) and internal stakeholders to align on desired user experience. o Creation of play books for Telco’s to integrate and be part of DAZN. o Create OKR’s & share OKR’s to all stakeholders quarterly. o Contribute to H1/H2 planning & long-term strategy for the products. o Products contributing roughly 20 million euros per month as ROI for overall revenue.
Product Manager Strategic Partnerships
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
10 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Direct carrier billing & bundling o Strategised & Delivered two payment methods for customers to sign up and access DAZN OTT services. o Two payment methods/products namely Direct carrier billing (DCB), Bundling. E2E product life cycle involving customer service, back end and front-end integration, KPI’s etc.., o Responsible on data driven & ROI (return of investment) prioritisation. o Scalability & reusability is key aspect of any feature. We have scaled the carrier billing payment to 13 operators in 6 markets by using configs. Few of the Telco’s are o2, Vodafone, T-Mobile, KDDI, Docomo, Softbank, Swisscom, Orange, Masmovil/Yoigo.
Tata Consultancy Services
Mar 2012 - Dec 2019
7 years 10 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Senior Business Analyst/ Product Owner
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
2 years 2 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES Scoped future requirements, refined, planned and tested functional/non-functional needs while prioritizing with business Owners. Conducted data modelling with enterprise architects/engineers, built WSDLs for designing SOAP/REST services & data structures. Expert in API domain modelling, analysed and validated data models for logical interpretation while collaborating with stakeholders to building APIs. I’ve enriched KLM’s airline purchase flow & e-commerce experience, boosting digital conversion rates by 2%. Integrated check-in solutions with backend systems (e.g., booking, loyalty programs) for operational efficiency, optimizing customer journeys and real-time data accuracy. Categorized Flight ratings into actionable items to enhance user experience of customer onboard, resulted in increase of NPS score by 5 points. Delivered "Flight Guide experience" a personalized product offering tailored flight data (meals, entertainment, aircraft facts) to enhance passenger preparedness and journey experience digitising complex physical world assets into APIs.
Business analyst & Product Owner
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 3 months
Guadalajara Area, Mexico
CITI | Citi Banamex | Mexico/Brazil Defined Global Foundation Components for a unified, configurable user experience and integrated sub-apps with MLI across regions for global e-banking portal (CBOL). Transitioned to Techno-Functional Business Analyst in customer journey expert in 2015, creating FRDs, refining user stories, and aligning sprints with product vision. Delivered core banking functions: balance checks, payments, online statements, and balance transfers. Expertise in card management: issuance, transaction processing, fraud detection, and reconciliation.
Senior Software Developer@CitiBank
Mar 2012 - Aug 2015
3 years 6 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Citi Bank North America, Citi Banamex Lead Software Engineer at Citi Banamex, Mexico, focusing on core banking and security enhancements.
Internship Trainee
Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL)
Jun 2010 - Oct 2010
5 months
Hyderabad Area, India
Intern in central government organization to understand the manufacturing and procedures of various areas such as antenna products, electronic energy meters or electricity meter, X-ray baggage inspection system for airports, computer hardware, software and services,electrical communications processes with signals, computer education services.
Education
Product beats
Diploma of Education
2024 - 2024
2 months
Reforge
Growth series certification
2023 - 2023
2 months
TCS Certification
Business analysis and requirement engineering
2017 - 2017
1 month
Scrum Institute
Scrum Master certification
2015 - 2015
1 month
OCJP
Oracle certification
2014 - 2014
1 month
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
2007 - 2011
4 years 1 month