Ashwin Vaidyanathan

Manager Product Operations & Strategy Manager @Walmart Canada

Mississauga, ON, CA

Owned and scaled the end-to-end user journey for Walmart’s Spark Driver platform, a last-mile gig delivery solution that now fulfills 40% of online grocery orders nationwide in less than 20 months.• Partnered with Engineering and Product teams to define product requirements requirements and deliver key features in payments, user engagement, and network strategy, achieving a 98% on-time delivery rate on the platform. • Designed and executed pricing experiments and engagement initiatives, resulting in 15% MoM growth in active users and 7% reduction in driver acquisition costs.• Devised and executed a supply planning strategy, increasing platform acceptance rate by 35%.• Streamlined gig worker payments by integrating a payment processor and enhancing the payout UX, enabling 50% faster payments and instant cashouts, improving user satisfaction and retention.• Introduced weekly bug triaging processes, integrating JIRA and Confluence to track and reduce bugs by 30% and improving release velocity.• Built and maintained cross-functional documentation in Confluence, improving alignment and transparency across Engineering, Ops, and PM stakeholders.• Developed and executed an analytics roadmap using Power BI and SQL; facilitated structured data reviews, improving decision-making speed and efficiency by 20%.• Built financial models and conducted scenario planning for evaluating product enhancements, achieving $2/order cost savings.• Led a 0→1 change management initiative, successfully migrating users during a major system re-architecture.

Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering

GEMS B SCHOOL

Post Graduate Program

Schulich School of Business - York University

Master's degree