About me

A small introduction about myself

Ganan Sivagnanenthirarajah

Technical Product Manager | Electrical Engineer

My pursuit to become a Technical Product Manager stems from my experiences and academics. In my senior years of high school, I led a group of 40+ students as the president and founder of a rookie FIRST Robotics Team (FRC 6632). Through this experience and my academic interests in physics, mathematics and computer science, I decided to pursue Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Through my internships I found my passion for building solutions and products in software.

In my cumulative 3 years of employment in software development, I have proven to be an innovative leader. I am recognized for creatively architecting and launching Lifion's Unified Messaging System to scale user notifications and significantly improve client sentiment scores.

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Skills & Expertise

A brief overview of my technical skills

In my most recent position as a Technical Product Manager, I leveraged my technical expertise to lead high-quality product development for Lifion Git and the Unified Messaging System teams. During my past internships, I acquired a diverse set of skills and experiences. In my third work term, I developed an iOS application using Swift in XCode. In my second work term, I created multiple applications, employing OpenCV, Tesseract OCR, Selenium, and predominantly working with C# and Python. In my first work term, I designed and implemented several web-based ticketing systems using HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and PowerShell. For more comprehensive details about my experience, please refer to my resume.

Technical Product Management - 3 years
Web Development - 2 years
Embedded Systems - 4 years
Mobile Development - 2 years
Project Management - 1 year

Experience

My previous employment history

August 2022
September 2023

Lifion by ADP - New York City

Technical Product Manager
  • Improved client sentiment by 10% for 20k daily active users after building, testing & releasing Lifion’s Unified Messaging System to synchronize messages between internal & external applications.
  • Achieved application’s SOC compliance by implementing user provisioning & reporting tools for Lifion’s low-code version control system (Lifion Git).
  • Reduced pull request (PR) time by 30% after revitalizing code management tools for Lifion Git while engaging with over 300 stakeholders.
  • Led 2 engineering teams (10 developers) & increased team velocity by effectively communicating requirements using tools like Figma & Miro while taking initiative on organizing team building social events.
January 2021
April 2021

Lifion by ADP - New York City (Remote)

Technical Product Owner
  • Modernized mobile search with cross-functional teams to reduce user taps from 4 to 1 by unifying search & adding ML suggestions.
  • Increased release quality by 15% after designing automated tests & deploying Pendo Analytics to track user journeys.
  • Worked with stakeholders to add 13 new platform features & resolve 28 bugs
June 2020
September 2020

Lifion by ADP - New York City (Remote)

Technical Product Owner
  • Slashed configuration time by 90% after redesigning UI & releasing features like cURL support & Swagger Docs for connecting outbound REST configurations in Lifion’s low code platform.
  • Prioritized over 150 tickets after collaborating with stakeholders to create product roadmaps, OKRs, PRDs & technical documentation.
September 2019
December 2019

Carfax Canada - Waterloo

Mobile Engineer
  • Prototyped an iOS app in Swift that provided real-time & historic insights about a user’s car & driving habits.
  • Initiated & implemented key features such as Distracted Driving, Live Maps, Service Records, Trip History & Rewards by leveraging several APIs.
  • Improved application load times by 80% leveraging Firebase & Core Data to overhaul user data management.
  • Other technologies involved: Core Location, Core Motion, Google Maps SDK, Spotify SDK, Alamofire, Heroku & InVision
January 2019
April 2019

Nielsen - Markham

Software Developer
  • Eliminated manual labor by developing an application in python to recognize products in consumer flyers using Selenium, OpenCV, OCR & machine learning.
May 2018
August 2018

City of Toronto - Toronto

Hardware & Web Developer
  • Increased efficiency by 60% after programming a web-based ticketing system for internal forms with custom validations and email reminders using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL & PowerShell.

Education

An overview of my studies

September 2017
April 2022

Bachelor of Applied Science

University of Waterloo

- Honours Electrical Engineering - Co-operative Program (BASc)

- Final Year Design Project (Smart Gym) awarded monetary prize as Best Device for Physical Exercise. Acheived goal to analyze exercise form, manage routines & address injury risks through a mobile & hardware application.

- FIRST Robotics Alumni

- Waterloo Entrepreneurship Residence Connection (WERC)

September 2013
June 2017

Ontario Secondary School Diploma

Northview Heights Secondary School

- FIRST Robotics President and Founder (FRC 6632)

- Honours Mathematics, Science and Technology (HMST) Program

- Physics, Chess, Programming and Math Clubs

Photography

A gallery of places I've been and moments I've captured... still working on it!

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