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Product Leadership — Maps, Mobility & Platform SaaS
Product management for platform-scale software, built and shipped end to end.
15+ years turning early-stage ideas into platform-scale products: from 0-to-1 B2B SaaS builds running at national scale to independent products shipped end-to-end with AI as the build partner.
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Mandar JoglekarPune, IN
Built Products for
OLAOLA ELECTRICTOMTOMINVARYA
500M+
Monthly searches
600M+
Map tile loads
900K+
Connected vehicles
14M
Active users
Selected Work
Platform SaaS
Case 01
OLA MAPS
Turned Ola's internal maps into an external platform business
New B2B SaaS maps platform on Krutrim Cloud — search, tiles, pickup & drop-off. maps.olakrutrim.com
How it helped
Search experience enhancement powering 500M+ monthly searches, tile visualization reaching 600M+ loads, and an enhanced pickup & drop-off experience for ride-hailing — shipped as external, licensable platform capability rather than an internal-only tool.
500M+monthly searches
Track Record
2025–Present · Pune
Lead Product Consultant · Invarya Technologies
- Product strategy across Invarya's climate-tech and GIS platforms — forestry planning and afforestation-zone workflows, and a carbon-credit compliance engine.
- Led an FPO (Farmer Producer Organization) and WEAI-focused agritech platform and its apps.
- Also drives Invarya's own products, Maps.Guru and PlaceOptimizer.
2022–2024 · Pune
Senior Product Manager · Ola / Ola Electric
- Led the Ola Maps B2B SaaS platform on Krutrim Cloud — 500M+ monthly searches, 600M+ tile loads.
- Owned location features across ride-hailing and EV, reaching 900K+ connected vehicles.
2019–2021 · Global
Process Engineer, Product Engineering · TomTom
Owned release planning and backlog for a global sourcing technology team; built a global internship program — 30 interns, 5 POCs, 1 MVP.
2015–2019 · Bangkok
Sr. GIS Engineer & Product Quality Analyst · TomTom
Ran product benchmarking across APAC/MENA; shipped 8 tools cutting processing time for 4M+ records, with 47 UI/UX defects and 15 software bugs identified along the way.
2008–2014 · Pune
Product Validation & Sourcing Engineer · TomTom
Product testing, benchmarking, and data supplier management across India.
Why Work With Me
Fifteen-plus years moving between engineering, data, and product: GIS and process engineering at TomTom, senior product management at Ola and Ola Electric, now building independent B2B SaaS ventures with AI as the execution partner. Both modes taught the same lesson: ship the smallest real thing, watch what people do with it, then build the next part.
0-to-1, twice
Led Ola Maps from an internal tool to an external B2B SaaS platform. Now doing the same independently, across four products.
Research, not just user stories
Post-release analytics, PRDs, and coaching other PMs were part of the day job at both Ola and TomTom.
Cross-functional by necessity
Bangkok, Pune, and remote teams; stakeholder mapping and an internship program built from scratch at TomTom.
AI as a build partner
Products shipped solo, with AI doing the heavy lifting on execution — not a buzzword, a working method.
Built With AI
EduMentor
EduMentor In Dev
AI-first K-12 ERP, persona-first (in development, not yet live).
Pet Insurance Platform
Pet Insurance Platform In Dev
Redirect-only comparison for India (in development, not yet live).
ProductHub
ProductHub Concept
Knowledge graph for product frameworks, AI as critic — not yet built.