Damini Thorat

Product Manager @ Zinnia

About

Hello! I’m Damini! A Product & Engineering professional specializing in digital payments and real-time transaction systems. I’m driven by a passion for building secure, scalable, and compliant products that deliver tangible business value. With 6+ years of product experience, I focus on API-first strategy, technical product development, and full lifecycle ownership. I have led major initiatives including the Digital Card Facilitator and Click to Pay SDK, taking them from concept to production. These products scaled to 100K+ merchants, enabled frictionless checkout for millions of users, and delivered meaningful results. 🚀 What I Bring Product Leadership – End-to-end ownership across market analysis, roadmap development, requirements, execution, and launch. Technical Depth – Strong foundation in API design, SDK development, integration patterns, and platform architecture. Customer-Centric Mindset – Hands-on with merchant feedback, UAT cycles, and iterative product improvements. Cross-Functional Excellence – Successfully aligned 50+ stakeholders across Engineering, UX, Sales, Compliance, and Legal. Data-Driven Decision Making – Established KPI frameworks, analytics insights, and ROI-based prioritization. I am currently pursuing my MS in Information Systems at Northeastern University (Dec 2025) and serve as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, mentoring 100+ graduate students on Agile, product thinking, and delivery best practices. 🛠 Core Expertise Product Lifecycle: 0→1→Scale product management, API strategy, competitive analysis, Agile/Scrum, stakeholder management Agile & Delivery: SAFe, Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, SQL, Node.js, React.js Cloud & DevOps: AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch), Docker, Terraform, Jenkins APIs & Tools: REST, GraphQL, OAuth 2.0, Swagger, Postman Data & Analytics: Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Atlassian suite 📍 Boston, MA — Open to relocation 📧 thorat.d@northeastern.edu

Country

United States

City

New York City Metropolitan Area

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Azure Data Studio, Technical Leadership, Product Launch, Stakeholder Management, Flow Diagrams, Analytics, Statistics, Presentations, Product Road Mapping, Working Experience, Key Performance Indicators, Problem Solving, Go-to-Market Strategy, Technical Product Management, Strategic Initiatives, Product Vision, Written Communication, Competitive Analysis, Key Metrics, Corrective Actions

Experience

Product Manager

Zinnia

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

Technical Product Manager.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Northeastern University

2025-9 - 2025-12 · 4 mos

Boston, MA

Course: INFO 7260 – Business Process Engineering (In-Person Class) Professor: Shannon Pettiford

Head Teaching Assistant

Northeastern University Experiential Digital Global Education (EDGE)

2025-4 - 2025-8 · 5 mos

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Course: INFO 7260 – Business Process Engineering (Online) Professor: Shannon Pettiford

Program Assistant

Northeastern University

2024-5 - 2025-4 · 1 yr

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Providing guidance, resolving technical problems, and helping students develop skills in MATLAB, SolidWorks, and vLab.

Senior Technical Engineer

Opus Technologies

2022-3 - 2023-12 · 1 yr 10 mos

Project: Secure Remote Commerce - Click to Pay Digital Card Facilitator Client: Discover Financial Services Domain: Cards & Payment Led the team to deliver Digital Card Facilitator and SDK for Secure Remote Commerce System. Played a key role in defining the Digital Card Facilitator’s design and implementation. Restructuring code to diminish the cyclomatic and cognitive complexities in the application.

Technical Engineer

Opus Technologies

2018-8 - 2022-3 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Worked on Domain - Cards and Payments. Projects - 1. Merchant Management System - Currency Pay Client: Currency Pay Designed and implemented a Merchant Management System for seamless onboarding and digital management of merchants. Ensured smooth consumer interactions and billing processes. Utilized ReactJs (reactStrap library) for the front-end, bitBucket for version control, and Jira for task and bug tracking. 2. Reconcilliation Client: T-Mobile Developed software solution for business-specific reconciliation, reducing the complexity and errors associated with manual reconciliation processes. Streamlined reconciliation through a user-friendly desktop interface. Front-end development done using ReactJs and the Ant Design library. Made the UI responsive using media queries.

Education

Northeastern University

Information Systems

2024-1 - 2025-12 · 2 yrs

Coursework: 1. Network Structures & Cloud Computing (Cloud Architectures, Security, Governance, EC2, S3, API Gateway, RDS, AWS VPC, IAM, Terraform, GCP, Azure) 2. Business Process Engineering 3. Business Analysis and Information Engineering (Change management, Dynamic Leadership, Team Building, Growth Mindset, Communication, Presentation Skills, Problem Solving) 4. Web Design and User Experience Engineering (HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, MongoDB, Express.js, Node.js, React, PWA) 5. Program Structure and Algorithms (Problem-Solving, Brute Force, Recursion, Divide-and-Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Algorithms, Backtracking) 6. User Experience Design & Testing (Wireframing, Prototyping, Figma, Moqups, Balsamiq) 7. Application Engineering and Development (Java, Java Swing, Object Database (Db4O))