I'm Mydhili and I have been building consumer-facing products and Product teams for the past 12 years.
I’m currently living in Boston, MA. A little bit of background is below and so is my contact info. If you’d like to get in touch, use the email below with a brief message on how you came across this page and what you’d like to chat about.
Started my journey in Product Management as a Product Specialist at YouTube. Built and managed development of several Edtech Products, including VidWiki, VidyaNext, YoungCurrent, STEP of The Hindu Group.
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Agile Software Development
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User Experience
Certified Usability Analyst by HFI
Ran quantitative and qualitative studies to understand user needs and test ideas/prototypes.
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Product Roadmaps | Cross functional Co-ordination and Communication.
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Product Strategy
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Leadership
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Six Sigma
Certified in Green Belt. Established the Best Practices team at Google India.
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Educational Technology
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SQL
Run queries to get data from databases in order to make design/product decisions
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HTML, CSS, PHP
Initially learned the languages to do some basic protoyping of ideas to be presented to Senior PM teams. Understanding of the languages came handy when making changes to frontend of
MIT Media Lab India Initiative 'Design For Creative Learning’ track in Mumbai, India - Feb, 2014 [Workshop]
ICICI Bank Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai, India - Jan, 2014 [Workshop]
Digital Media and Learning Conference --‐ Long Beach, CA. (2011) ‘Why I think Participatory Culture in India can help its Street Children.’ [Talk]
*These are the workshops I’ve run in-person, mostly along with a team and a few individually.
Publications
Bayyapunedi, M., Sriram, P., & Wennersten, M. (2020). Meeting the English Language Learning Needs of the Indian Learner. EPiC Series in Education Science, 3, Dec, 2019 [
Cross, A., Bayyapunedi, M., Cutrell, E., Agarwal, A., & Thies, W. (2013, April). TypeRighting: combining the benefits of handwriting and typeface in online educational videos. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(pp. 793--‐796). ACM.[
Cross, A., Bayyapunedi, M., Ravindran, D., Cutrell, E., & Thies, W. VidWiki: Enabling the Crowd to Improve the Legibility of Online Educational Videos. Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing[
Bayyapunedi, M.(2010). Leveraging the power of participatory culture to bring awareness among street children. Published for Designing for Children International Conference. IDC,IIT Bombay, February 2--‐6 2010 [