Adithya Rajan

Work Experience

I am an innovative and performance-driven Product Owner with over 5 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams, driving digital product development, and delivering impactful solutions that enhance consumer experiences.

Senior Associate Product Manager

Capital One, Card Partnerships

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinated communications with external partners and internal platform teams to successfully launch new credit cards to market across various retailers
• Card Authorizations and Settlements: Onboarded 2.1M+ customer accounts to Capital One card authorizations and settlements systems through new product launches to market
• Digital Wallets: Drove development on new features such as digital wallet authorizations through Capital One internal systems, resulting in advanced functionality for end users
• Agile Methodology: Managed Scrum Master duties for tech teams specializing authorization and settlement domains, including prioritization and development of roadmaps, agile ceremonies, and supporting card partners
• Product Development: Drove development to automate product launch tasks for authorizations and settlement domains to increase efficiency of product launches and decrease incident rates
• New Product Ideation: Identified and implemented new team intents through analysis of product data and communications with key stakeholders including external partners and platform domain experts
• Team Culture: Supported committee to improve onboarding experience for new associates, including formation of mentorship program, lunch & learns, and experience retros

Product Manager

Procter & Gamble, PG Ventures

• User Research: Drove engagements with external groups to drive iterative learning goals through consumer usage experience testing and define scope for product enhancements
• Internet of Things: Lead meaningful additions, including web-based connected experience, to smart-home product line from ideation to market launch through technical data analysis and consumer testing with figma designs
• Product Development: Enabled UX/UI updates for product applications by coordinating with design teams and identifying requirements for design improvements for customer satisfaction
• Customer Education: Filmed and edited product videos for customer education and troubleshooting to improve user experience with product and application processes
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interfaced between Engineering and Business teams to define and deliver product readiness requirements for smart device operations model and change management processes

R&D Co-Op

Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Energy Devices

• Project Management: Responsible for end-to-end management of project including leading design reviews, interfacing between mechanical and electrical engineering teams, and creating project schedules
• Electrical Design: Designed circuit schematics and PCB layout for Capacitive Touch and NFC Sensors

Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Endo-mechanical Devices

• Internet of Things: Prototyped and tested circuits for transmitting sensor data through Bluetooth in endo-mechanical surgical devices
• Circuit Simulations: Performed Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) using circuit simulations to design requirements to prevent life-threatening device failures

Engineering Projects

A large part of my engineering education has been focused on Signal Processing and Audio Engineering. Combining music and engineering has been truly interesting and a perfect blend of my interests. These projects include embedded digital signal processing applications and electroacoustic/algorithmic compositions. Please check out a few of my engineering projects below!

Pandemic!: Data Sonification Composition

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was an event of unprecedented size that has affected people all around the world. The virus, belonging to the coronavirus group of viruses, originated in Wuhan, China, and causes respiratory symptoms in the affected. The virus itself spread in an exponential manner, with many countries establishing quarantines and lockdowns in an attempt to control the spread.

Pandemic! is an electro-acoustic composition that intends to represent the global pandemic in a sonic medium. This piece features multiple components, with the basis of the sound being algorithmic composition. SuperCollider was used to algorithmically represent the data of confirmed cases in various countries through sound, and Logic Pro X was used to arrange and apply various electroacoustic composition techniques. The countries represented are the United States, Brazil, China, Italy, Iran, and India, which are represented by the notes D, E, C, A, G, F respectively. SuperCollider was used to change properties of these tones, specifically the amplitude and the duration of the grains used in granular synthesis. The amplitudes of the tones are proportional to the number of cases, as specified by the following formula:

decibelLevel = (((numCases/1158040) * 42) - 45)

Granular synthesis was also used to modify the tones to add a sense of chaos to the composition. The durations of the grains are changed exponentially based on the number of confirmed cases, based on the following formula:

duration = ((3**(1/numCases)-1)/(3-1))*(3-0.01)+0.01)

The SuperCollider code used in the composition of this piece can be found here. Please listen to the full composition below!

Self Harmonizing Android App

This project was my final project for Embedded Digital Signal Processing (ECE 420) and was inspired by my love for A Cappella. As a large part of A Cappella music is building chords, this application makes it easy to write harmonies into new arrangements.

The project is an Android application that generates a tone that harmonizes with the user as they sing into a microphone as a real-time audio input. We utilized a modified autocorrelation method using clipping to recognize the frequency of the user’s voice and the Time-Domain Pitch Synchronous Overlap-Add (TD-PSOLA) algorithm to output shifted frequency in real time. The use also has multiple options for the number of harmonies to be outputted and the size of the interval between harmonies.

The code for the project can be found here. Please check out a short demo video of the app in action!