Timeline

Over the last 3 years as a Career and Product Management Coach, over 350 coaching sessions in 3 years, over 300 professionals & 30+ workshops helping professionals  in their career journey. The role of an Executive Coach is a greater opportunity to continue with the mission of helping people uncover their true value and with more coaches under my wing, looking forward to a more fulfilling and meaningful journey ahead. 

The VMware journey continues, but only faster and more focussed in building the Modern IaaS platform and enabling Kubernetes on the platform for customers to embrace and deploy modern applications on top of the platform. My role involves contributing to the product strategy, Customer Insighting, Managing Technology roadmap, defining consumption touchpoint experience for the customers. 

Bringing product professionals with diverse perspectives and enabling product thinking to create outcomes that impact millions of lives is a purpose I am deeply connected to. While building a community is a long journey, the last 9 months of pursuing this has been a rewarding experience. Awarded the  VMware India Site Strategy Role Model award at #vmware for our work on the PM community

With a track record of coaching over 150 professionals and investing more than 1000 hours in personalised 1-1 sessions, Kishan is a sought-after coach for experienced professionals seeking strategic career planning and transitioning into product management roles. Known for his expertise and dedication, Kishan’s guidance has empowered numerous individuals to navigate their career paths with confidence.

Kishan Malur has over 21 years of experience in Engineering, Delivery, and Product Management with global leaders such as Cisco, VMware, and Robert Bosch. In his career, he has built and managed products across diverse domains, including Digital pay TV, Industry 4.0, IoT for Automotive and Manufacturing, and Modern IaaS Platform and Kubernetes

An open mind and a commitment to career development are all you need to book your call with Kishan.

Awarded the Dean’s List Award – Valedictorian Award of the Executive MBA Class of 2015B for outstanding academic achievement in addition to the Cisco IPL Scholarship Award by Institute of Product Leadership

Kishan Malur was also awarded the Cisco-Institute of Product Leadership Award for the Best Overall Academic & Leadership performance in the EMBA 2017 Batch. 

doerCity was a start-up attempt to bridge the industry-academia gap. It aimed to solve the problem of industry readiness for students by providing a platform for the industry to throw real-time challenges to students so that they get a chance to apply what they learn in the class. After 10 months of working on customer validation – we had to move on.

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More than an Executive MBA, the process of going back to college and thriving in a Practioner Driven Pedagogy with a talented cohort paved a new mindset and thinking and helped me discover myself. Of course, this course helped me strengthen my Product Management fundamentals and establish myself as a Product Leader in the industry

Dissertation Work: The concept is to integrate Social Networking user discussions with Premium Broadcast or Demand Content. These user discussions will serve as crowd-sourced, user-contributed content, contextual metadata useful in semantic search, social analytics, recommendation, and other analysis. The annotations can be limited to user-defined groups. Broadcasters can additionally use this feature to enhance revenue.

This will also enhance the user viewing experience by providing social networking and better search results in managed broadcasts.

This was an opportunity to go deep into concepts of Computer engineering with subjects like Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Data Analytics, Data Structure and Algorithms etc. 

It all began with the receipt of a handwritten invoice for my first assembled PC. Fueled by the eagerness to apply newfound software development skills, the support of an amazing partner, and the onset of semester-end holidays, this marked the beginning of a remarkable journey towards building our inaugural product.

This experience served as a pivotal moment in igniting my interest and setting the course for my career in product management. I attribute much of my career trajectory to this formative experience.

Our maiden project involved the development of a POS (Point of Sale) software product for the vendor. This encompassed gathering requirements and constructing various modules such as inventory management, billing, order processing, and invoicing. Remarkably, even in 1999 when our understanding of “product-building” was nascent, we managed to conceptualize and execute it as a cohesive product rather than a bespoke solution tailored solely for the vendor’s needs.

Studying Electrical and Electronics at BMS College of Engineering in Bangalore was an enriching experience. I developed a strong affinity for subjects like Electrical Circuits, Digital Electronics, and Power Electronics. The study of various programming languages alongside core electrical subjects sparked my interest in leveraging software programming for practical applications in electrical engineering. This experience greatly influenced my career direction and helped me refine my focus within the field. In my final year dissertation project, I played a significant role in constructing a simulation of the Numerical Negative Sequence relay. This endeavor allowed us to preemptively gather data to compare and analyze outcomes from electronic circuits.

They say no matter how tall you grow, your alma mater always towers over you. Since 2002, I have maintained a strong connection with the college, actively participating and contributing to various activities year after year. I have returned to conduct workshops, offer career guidance and mentoring, served as a jury member for events, and provided inputs for the curriculum, all while representing the alumni and industry.