Hello World - My Journey from Developer to Architect to Product Manager in today's age
I’m Ujwal Iyer - Senior Product Manager at SAP Labs India, combining deep technical roots in C#, cloud architecture, and SAP BTP with a passion for building impactful products.
Hello there!
I’m Ujwal Iyer, a Senior Product Manager at SAP Labs, Bangalore, where I help design and scale products that reduce onboarding time and accelerate adoption.
Before I moved into product management, I spent years as a developer and solution architect, writing C#, building systems on Azure and AWS, and designing secure, scalable architectures for enterprise customers. That experience gave me a builder’s mindset - something I still rely on every day as a PM.
Today, I work at the intersection of AI, automation, and product strategy, shaping how businesses experience value from SAP’s cloud ecosystem.
From Developer to Product Management
- Developer roots - I began my career as a software engineer writing C# and .NET code, obsessed with performance, design patterns- creating trading apps, and multi-player games using Microsoft Kinect SDK and Microsoft PixelSense.
- Architect years - Over time, I grew into a Cloud Solution Architect, designing hybrid solutions on Azure, AWS, and SAP BTP, and became a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert and SAP Certified BTP Solution Architect.
- Product management - For the last six years at SAP Labs India, I’ve led platform product with enterprise kubernetes SAP Gardener, data management solutions with SAP Data Intelligence, and at present building a greenfield SaaS platform that transforms customer onboarding from a months-long process into a guided, self-service experience.
- Product philosophy - My focus is on blending strong technical foundations with product vision - ensuring that “how we build” never loses sight of “why we build.”
What You’ll Find Here
This blog isn’t about buzzwords or corporate updates - it’s my personal lab notebook.
A space to share hands-on projects, product insights, and the messy middle between technology and strategy.
Each post will blend architecture, PM thinking, code experiments, and AI - written for product people who like to get their hands dirty. I believe there is no greater retention in learning than by building something: from idea to outcomes.
Why I Started This Blog
We’re entering a decade where product managers can’t just “talk tech” - they need to build with it. The ability to combine design, data, automation, platform, and architecture thinking will define the next generation of PMs.
This blog is my way of staying hands-on - to keep learning, to share what works (and what doesn’t), and to build a public record of experiments at the frontier of AI and product design.
Outside Work
When I’m not experimenting with AI workflows or writing about platforms, I’m:
- building small learning projects with my 5-year-old son,
- reading and discussing Ramayana and Mahabharata,
- or helping my wife Gayathri, an urban designer, in her work on sustainable city projects across India.
That balance between technology, learning, and purpose is what keeps me curious.
How This Site Runs
This blog is powered by Jekyll + Chirpy theme, hosted on GitHub Pages, and connected to my custom domain ujwaliyer.com.
Everything here - from AI prototypes to product frameworks - is meant to be open, transparent, and reusable.
Thanks for stopping by.
If you’re working on something interesting or just want to swap ideas, reach me at ujwaliyer@live.com.
Let’s learn, build, and ship better products - together.
– Ujwal Iyer
Senior Product Manager | SAP Labs India
https://ujwaliyer.com