Kanak Chauhan

About Kanak Chauhan

Result -driven Product and Technology leader with 20+ years of experience, driven by a passion for innovation and solving complex challenges. I thrive on taking products from 0 to 1, building impactful solutions that enhance user experiences, create market disruptions, and drive business growth. Proven track record of scaling businesses from zero to 30M+ users and generating hundreds of millions in revenue through technology transformation, product development, and operational excellence. Key strengths include:• Strategic leadership in high-impact initiatives across diverse industry verticals.• Driving digital transformation and operational maturity at early-stage tech companies.• Innovator with 30+ patents and a thought leader in product development.

Experience

1. Lead Product Manager Infrastructure Capacity & Efficiency - Messaging

   Meta

   Mar 2024 — Present

   Single Threaded Owner for capacity management platform strategy and multi-year roadmap for world\'s largest Messaging ecosystem, governing $500M+ in on-prem and cloud infra assets supporting 4B+ DAU across Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram- Built and led a cross-functional leadership team (Eng, PE, DS, DE) to institutionalize a centralized capacity management framework enabling precise usage attribution, AI/ML base demand forecasting, and automated capacity operations across 15 mission-critical services, driving adoption across an 800-person organization- Elevated capacity and efficiency to an org-level accountability, shifting the organization to a capacity-first operating mindset and materially changing how growth, reliability, and cost tradeoffs are evaluated- Established executive capacity decision frameworks (forecast accuracy, utilization targets, ROI thresholds), enabling senior leaders to make consistent, data-driven tradeoffs across growth, reliability, and cost efficiency- Delivered $170M in annualized infrastructure savings by using AI/ML-based anomaly and regression detection to surface cost and utilization regressions, identifying low-ROI, high-cost workloads through ROI analysis, and driving architectural redesigns and deprecations to permanently reduce infrastructure run-rate- Improved platform reliability by reducing capacity-driven incidents by 50%, establishing standardized health metrics, resilience requirements, and disaster readiness.

Education

• SBGE at Seattle Pacific University

  Masters, Management Information Systems

  2002 — 2004

• Pune University

  BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Product Incubation
• Personalization
• Contract Negotiation
• Wireless
• Mobile Advertising
• Analytics
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Telecommunication Services
• Integration
• Vendor Management
• Solution Architecture
• Product Management
• Cloud Computing
• Mobile Software
• Mobile Applications
• Crm
• Program Management
• Mobile Internet
• Strategy
• Mobile Content
• Location Based Services
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Mobile
• Product Requirement Definition
• Mobile Devices
• Product Requirements