Siddhant Malik

M: +91 9999 861 720

[email protected]

I’m an entrepreneurial minded, barrier-free futuristic thinking, innovative & visionary, product & technology-led business leader; having 7 years of experience (5-6 years in product, 4-5 years in software engineering), and a diverse & quite unique skill set encompassing strong product & design sense, solid technology background, acute strategy & business acumen, and other augmenting skills. All this, coupled with an impressively quick rate of learning, has proven for me to craft out radically better products, strategies & concepts. I have so far founded multiple startups in EdTech, Virtual Collaboration, and Online Dating.

I’ve also conceptualised multiple ambitious projects in Smart Homes & Cities, Longevity, Governance & several others. In addition to this, in my leisure time, I’ve profound interest in learning about future technologies and fundamentals of the Universe & life - life sciences, genetic engineering, brain augmentation, artificial intelligence, energy technologies, space exploration, physics.

I’m a driven individual, passionate about solving high impact problems. Looking for product leadership roles at exciting, consumer focussed tech. startups.

Skills, Tools & Technologies

Product Skills

First principles thinking • Creative problem solving • Product innovation • Market dynamics • Product & GTM strategy • User psychology • Product definition • Instrumentation • Planning & roadmapping • Agile project mgmt. • Product analytics (GA, Amplitude, Metabase etc.) • Strong mathematical modelling ability • Optimisation

Entrepreneurship & Leadership Skills

Vision • Strategy • Execution • Business & revenue modelling • Growth hacking • Team building & management

Design Skills

Human-centered UI/UX design • Wireframing (Balsamiq) • Interactive Prototyping (Sketch, Figma, InVision)

Software Engineering Skills

Responsive web development (Ruby on Rails, React.js, SQL etc.) • Mobile (React Native) • PWA • REST APIs • WebRTC • Software architectural design: database, cloud • Git • DS & Algo • AI & ML - basic

Interpersonal Skills

Strong communication & people skills • Robust & scalable documentation (GSuite & Atlassian Apps + APIs, Notion etc.)

Other Startup Skills

Fundraising • Finance • Marketing (FB API, SEO) • Sales & operations management

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

B.Tech., Electrical Engineering

2009-2013 • CGPA: 7.01

XII - 95.2%

2009 • CBSE (PCM + Comp. Sc.)

X - 92.8%

2007 • CBSE

Competitive Achievements

IQ Test

150 (99.96 percentile)

GRE

Dec, 2014 • 320/340 • Quantitative Ability: 170/170

CAT

Oct, 2013 • Quantitative Ability: 99.87 percentile

eLitmus

Jun, 2014

Verbal Ability: 99.73 percentile

Problem Solving: 98.75 percentile

Quantitative Ability: 100 percentile

Engineering Entrance Exams

2009 • (All India Ranks, General Category)

IIT-JEE: 4000

AIEEE: 5109

Delhi Technological University: 510

UPTU: 279

IPU-CET: 27

Work Experience

Founder, CEO & CTO, Schoolbook

Jan, 2021 - Apr, 2021 (4 months)

Executed all necessary research, planning & documentation for seed fundraising - legalities & process understanding, pitch deck, roadmap, execution plan etc.
Secured INR 40L commitments (target 1.5Cr) from strategic investors
Developed a ‘Digital Schools’ concept, conducted market research & prepared business model around this product line

Co-Founder | Product & Design | Marketing & Growth, Rosate

Dec, 2019 - Jul, 2020 (8 months)

Co-Founder: Siddhant Mohan

VP Engineering, AlmaConnect • Founder, NyxionAI • Ex: Technology Lead, Builder.ai • IIT Mandi

Conceptualised the entire product & business from scratch: A one-of-its-kind Instagram-like dating platform, giving users more immersive ways to express themselves through photos, stories, questions, interactive chat features etc. ($7Bn market)
Developed the entire UI/UX & an ML matchmaking algorithm, that powers the entire browse experience
Launched & scaled iOS & Android app to 25k users in 2 months
Optimised Facebook marketing campaign, reduced CAC by 50%
Conducted referral experiment for lead generation, to build a growth engine & reduce CAC

Product & Business Advisor, Collabor8

Mar, 2020 - May, 2020 (3 months)

Co-Founder & CEO | Product & Design | Strategy & Business, Collabor8

Sep, 2019 - Feb, 2020 (6 months)

Co-Founder: Brajendra Kumar

Founder, Sariska (formerly Collabor8) • Ex: Principal Engineer - Lido, PharmEasy, OYO Rooms • NIT Allahabad

Conceptualised the world’s first ‘collaborative internet technology’ that turns the entire internet into a collaborative playground. It’s a mind-blowing one-of-a-kind product involving sophisticated engineering.
Did UX research, defined the product specs & instrumentation, designed UI/UX, formulated the entire vision & execution plan - business model, go-to-market, financial modelling, exit plans etc.
Worked with engineering Co-Founder in development of our powerful & configurable SDK (WebRTC, reactive programming, Erlang/OTP, audio/video, and the rest of the product development & system architecture design)

Founder, CEO & CTO | Product, Design & Engineering | Strategy, Business & Operations, Schoolbook

Jan, 2016 - Aug, 2019 (3 years 8 months)

Conceptualised the entire product & business from scratch: an ‘All-in-one centralised School Management Platform’ & ‘Schoolbook Academy’ - an e-learning platform, with 90%+ better economics than competition
Built radical execution strategies & tactics across the product to achieve exponential scalability. Made colossal improvements to the business model to target $10Bn Indian & $250Bn global + further growing EdTech market
- A highly advanced architecture to cater all Indian & global schools, heavy automation-powered UX across the product, strategic features that provide network effects & hence core defensibility
- A viral growth engine that generated 300+ school leads at phenomenal rate, a reimagined new ops-light business model that enables hyper-growth & dramatically expands target market
Worked horizontally across all the startup functions like crafting the product & business plan & strategy with strong competitive advantages, meticulously defining product specs, designing wireframes & prototypes for web & mobile, developing the entire web app (frontend, backend, database, system architecture), product instrumentation & analytics, business & revenue modelling with solid economics, converting sales, user management, growth hacking, hiring & team mgmt., & keeping various chores like finances etc. in check
Converted sales worth 16k students = ~1Cr ARR. Hired & managed a team of 5

Software Engineer, TravelTriangle

Oct, 2015 - Apr, 2016 (7 months)

Developed a browser fingerprinting service to deliver personalised experience to non logged-in users
Single handedly built flight booking platform from scratch