Surath Chatterji

Meet Surath Chatterji, a seasoned technical Product Owner, Software Development Manager, IT Business Consultant, and Lecturer. He has over 14 years of experience in multiple industries such as IT, Games, e-commerce, Analytics & Telecom. Surath bridges the gap between C-level Executives and the Engineering/UX teams effortlessly, making him a process-driven hybrid leader that takes pride in working with teams who have not lost their sense of humor.

Surath has formal university education in Computer Science, Games & Graphics, and seven years of coding experience that aid him in daily technical decisions, debt management, architecture & mentoring (he still codes on weekends!). He has led multiple products, teams of sizes 15-30, including subcontractors and offshore collaborations. Surath's technical expertise has enabled him to ship mobile, AAA products, distributed SaaS & PaaS products with micro-services architecture. He also leverages his entrepreneurial mindset to mentor startups, spin-offs, and even founded one himself.

Surath is a certified Scrum Product Owner, experienced in Agile Frameworks such as Kanban, Scrumban, OKRs, Radical Focus, and other hybrid methodologies. He is also a skilled investor and has invested in various industries such as real estate, stocks, ETF, debt market, funds & startups.

In his free time, Surath enjoys exploring Leadership, Mentoring, Consulting, Agile Development & Methods, Team Building, Product Ownership, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Expectation Management, Technical Debt, Product Marketing, Go to Market Planning, Social Media, SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing, Data Analysis, CRM, VoC, Big Data, Analytics, Game Development, Internet, e-commerce, and Programming.