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He specializes in data infrastructure, agentic AI, and taking products from ambiguous 0-to-1 opportunities through enterprise-scale commercialization. Deba is strongest at defining product bets while problems are still fuzzy, building databases, storage, search, and AI products, shaping pricing and packaging, and shipping through cross-functional engineering teams. As founding PM and VP of Products at Relicx, he built the AI-native testing platform from its earliest customer calls through Harness’s August 2024 acquisition its autonomous-testing technology became the foundation for Harness AI Test Automation. Customers have achieved 10x faster test authoring and 70% lower maintenance, while early customers also reported approximately 5x higher release velocity. Previously, Deba led product work for Uber’s Docstore distributed database, Sia search, and infrastructure-efficiency programs led products at FaunaDB and was the first PM on Oracle Multitenant, the architecture underpinning Oracle’s cloud database business. Outside work, Deba runs long distances and builds weekend applications, including a World Cup score tracker that spread through word of mouth. ## Services - Product Strategy - Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) - Cloud Infrastructure - Team Leadership - Product Launch - Analytical Skills - Amazon RDS - Product Management - Performance Tuning - Oracle - Databases - IT Management - Data Warehousing - Analytics - Data Modeling - ETL - Software Project Management - Agile Project Management - Oracle Applications - Enterprise Software - Project Management - Management - Leadership - Oracle E-Business Suite - Solution Architecture - Pre-sales - Enterprise Architecture - ERP - Big Data - SaaS ## Highlights - Leads product vision, roadmap, requirements, prioritization, and launch execution for Harness AI Test Automation, a generative-AI platform for intent-based, self-healing enterprise QA testing. - Owns natural-language-to-test creation for web applications from PRD through prototype, general availability, and iteration customers achieve 10x faster authoring and 70% lower maintenance within 30–60 days. - Leads AI Test Automation pricing and packaging across research, tier and SKU design, modeling, approvals, and enablement supports multi-channel selling with average deal sizes in the mid-five figures. - Drives Harness CD integration that embeds QA verification in deployment workflows to improve release confidence and CI/CD quality. - Uses OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs, agentic workflows, self-healing rules, prompt enhancement, and human-in-the-loop review before general availability. - Partners with Siemens, Wasimil, and Gameopedia early customers report approximately 10x faster authoring, approximately 70% lower maintenance, and approximately 5x higher release velocity. - Built Relicx from zero to Harness’s August 2024 acquisition as founding PM and VP of Products its autonomous-testing technology became the foundation for Harness AI Test Automation. - Delivered session-replay-driven test generation, agentic autonomous testing for discovery and execution, and natural-language-to-test creation at Relicx. - Secured SOC 2 Type II compliance at Relicx. - Built Relicx commercial traction from a five-logo design-partner program to more than 10 paying customers and six-figure ARR earned Product Hunt Product of the Day. - Launched GitHub and Datadog integrations at Relicx, worked with Gartner and Forrester, and managed customer-transition planning through the acquisition close. - Led Relicx product strategy, UX, product marketing, developer relations, sales engineering, and customer success with a lean team that included a designer, product-marketing contractors, and four front-end engineers. - Led product strategy for Uber Docstore, an in-house distributed database with transaction support, and Sia, an in-house search solution used for Uber Eats, Maps, and other uses. - Built an AWS-like Uber self-service product catalog that enabled on-demand provisioning of certified, production-ready databases, cutting support load and increasing fleet utilization. - Led Uber infrastructure efficiency programs across Compute, Storage, and Data Platforms, plus storage and search visions, roadmaps, and lifecycle-management portal work. - Led FaunaDB product vision, roadmaps, prioritization, requirements for core database innovations, cloud and core-database pricing, collateral, analyst briefings, documentation, and sales positioning. - Directed Robin Containerization Platform 3.0 product development, PRDs, sales content, Oracle/Hadoop/Cassandra solution materials, systems-integrator partnerships, and external presentations. - Led CA Technologies’ Test Data Management product-management team in the Continuous Testing business unit. - Was the first PM for Oracle Multitenant, an architecture for consolidating many isolated databases that enabled Oracle Database Cloud Service in Oracle Public Cloud and supported SaaS application backends. - Managed Oracle’s Exadata plug-in and Diagnostics and Tuning performance packs created an Exadata management master class delivered worldwide to more than 300 sales consultants. - Led the first Oracle Exadata implementation within Oracle product-development IT and designed 24/7 availability during long-running ETL jobs. - Received CBS Best Consultant recognition for 2004–05 while serving as Cognizant’s onsite project manager and technical lead for Oracle E-Business finance-suite implementation at CBS. ## Experience - **Head of Products, AI Test Automation at Harness** (2024-08-01–present) — Own product vision, end-to-end roadmap, PRDs/specs, prioritization, and launch execution for Harness AI Test Automation—a generative-AI platform that delivers intent-based, self-healing testing for QA teams at mid-to-large enterprises. Ship and iterate on natural language–to–test creation for web apps own PRD → prototype → GA → iteration. Customers achieve 10x faster authoring and 70% lower maintenance within the first 30–60 days most create “hybrid” tests \(recorded steps + NL prompts\) to scale coverage quickly. Drive deep platform integration with Harness CD, embedding QA verification into the deployment workflow to improve release confidence and accelerate CI/CD quality at scale. Lead pricing/packaging as a hands-on PM \(research, tier/SKU design, modeling, approvals, enablement\) in partnership with the GM enable multi-channel selling. Average deal sizes are in the mid–five figures. Partner with Siemens, Wasimil, and Gameopedia early customers report ~10x faster test authoring - **Advisor at Tigris Data** (2021-12-01–2024-02-01) — Advised the founding team of a developer-focused data platform on positioning and the pitch deck, and sourced leads for their initial customer set - **Founding PM | VP of Products @ Relicx.ai | Acquired by Harness at Harness** (2021-11-01–2024-07-01) — Built and scaled Relicx from zero to acquisition by Harness \(Aug 2024\) autonomous testing technology became the foundation for Harness AI Test Automation. Delivered GA-class innovations: session replay–driven test generation, agentic autonomous testing for discovery/execution, and natural language–to–test creation secured SOC 2 Type II compliance. Proved value with early adopters \(e.g., 180 Medical, Electric.ai\): materially faster authoring, lower maintenance burden, higher coverage, fewer escaped defects, and faster release cadence. Orchestrated end-to-end product and GTM: product strategy, UX, PMM, developer relations, sales engineering, and customer success led a lean cross-functional team \(designer, PMM contractors\) and 4 front-end engineers. Established commercial traction: Product Hunt “Product of the Day” expanded from a 5-logo design partner program to 10+ paying customers and six-figure ARR launched GitHub and Datadog integrations. Partnered with analysts \(Gartner, F - **Lead Product Manager, Infrastructure & Cloud at Uber** (2019-07-01–2021-11-01) — Product Management lead for driving cost efficiency, reliability and developer productivity across infrastructure that serves multiple product verticals across Uber. • Responsibilities: • Create a long term vision and roadmap for the storage & search teams • Work on a platform strategy that optimizes developer productivity while reducing cost of capacity • Product strategy for Docstore – Uber’s home-grown distributed database with transaction support • Product strategy for Sia – Uber’s home-grown search solution for Uber Eats, Maps etc. • Responsible for all efficiency programs across Compute, Storage and Data Platforms. • Build an AWS like self-service portal that serves as a product catalog for all Uber developers • Storage Portal for all storage lifecycle management – from deployment to decommissioning - **Head of Products at FaunaDB** (2018-07-01–2019-06-01) — FaunaDB is a ground-breaking NoSQL database that guarantees data correctness without operational complexity at a global scale. • FaunaDB brings the best of both relational and NoSQL databases and ensures ACID transactions at a global scale. • Responsibilities: • Create a durable vision for the product and build a roadmap • Prioritization of product features with the best possible resources in hand • Author product requirements for various core database innovations • Pricing – Core database and serverless database service in the cloud • Collateral development, Analyst briefings, Documentation roadmap • Help sales team to position the product according to customer requirements - **Director of Product Management at CA Technologies** (2017-01-01–2018-01-01) — \* Led the product management team for Test Data Management in the Continuous Testing BU - **Director of Products at Robin.io, A Rakuten Symphony Company** (2016-01-01–2017-08-01) — Robin is a container-based, application-centric compute and scale-out storage platform that dramatically simplifies application lifecycle, instantly doubles the usable hardware capacity, and improves application performance. • Robin is the first and only company that brings containers to mission-critical applications, such as databases and Big Data. • Responsibilities: • Strategize, evangelize, facilitate and track development of the Robin Containerization platform \(RCP\) 3.0 • Requirements gathering, creation of Product Requirements document \(PRD\) • Create customer facing content and help sales team to position the product according to customer requirements • Work on whitepapers, marketing videos, website content and solution decks for Oracle, Hadoop and Cassandra • Initiate and establish partnership with various system integrators • Present at various events, webinars and analyst briefings - **Senior Principal Product Manager, Server Technologies at Oracle** (2010-08-01–2016-01-01) — Oracle Multitenant enables simplified consolidation of existing databases in the cloud with no changes to the applications. • In this new architecture, a multitenant container database can hold many virtual or pluggable databases. • Oracle Multitenant enables the Database Cloud Service \(DCS\) in Oracle Public Cloud \(OPC\) and is the application backend of choice for several SaaS applications in OPC. • Responsibilities: • Work closely with development, QA, marketing, support, pre-sales and documentation teams during the development process • Analysis of revenue and initiate strategic initiatives to foster growth in various regions and across verticals • Create various market facing documents: Datasheets, Whitepapers, Cookbooks, Videos etc. • Own the Multitenant in Minutes workshop material and deliver training to different sales and support orgs. • Work with various Oracle customers as a subject matter expert and help them realize the full potential of the Multitenant database option. • \* - **Prinicpal System Consultant at Oracle** (2005-06-01–2010-08-01) — Responsible for the performance of Oracle's Global corporate warehouse. Led the first implementation of Oracle Exadata within Oracle product development IT Implemented a 24\*7 availability design even when long running ETL jobs were executed Worked as a performance architect and technical manager for various Oracle customers including General Electric, Google, and Dell etc. Implemented various performance fixes to adhere to performance SLAs - **Technical Lead Manager at Cognizant** (2003-01-01–2005-01-01) — · Onsite Project Manager and technical lead for the implementation of Oracle E-business finance suite at CBS \(Viacom Inc.\). Awarded CBS best consultant, 2004 -05. · Business development and pre-sales activity for Cognizant's Oracle ERP practice in North-East America. - **Senior Database Administrator at Oracle** (2001-01-01–2002-01-01) — · Led the migration team in IDC, for the global single instance migration project. - **Assistant Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services** (1998-01-01–2001-01-01) — · Database Administrator in the implementation of Oracle E-business Software in Michelin Tires, France and Bengal Waterproof limited, Calcutta. ## Education - Product Strategy Certificate, Product Management — Northwestern University - B.PROD.E, Production Engineering — Jadavpur University - Data Science Specialization Track, Data Science — The Johns Hopkins University - MSE, Technology Management — The Wharton School ## FAQ ### What does Deba do at Harness? Deba leads product for Harness AI Test Automation, a generative-AI platform that provides intent-based, self-healing testing for QA teams at mid-to-large enterprises. He owns product vision, the end-to-end roadmap, PRDs and specifications, prioritization, launch execution, pricing and packaging, and ongoing iteration. ### What AI testing capabilities does Deba lead? Deba ships and iterates on natural-language-to-test creation for web applications, owning the process from PRD through prototype, general availability, and iteration. The platform uses OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs, agentic workflows, self-healing rules, and prompt enhancement, while retaining human-in-the-loop review before general availability. ### What results have customers achieved with Deba's AI Test Automation product? Within the first 30–60 days, Harness AI Test Automation customers achieve 10x faster authoring and 70% lower maintenance. Most create hybrid tests that combine recorded steps with natural-language prompts to scale coverage quickly. Siemens, Wasimil, and Gameopedia are partners early customers have reported approximately 10x faster authoring, approximately 70% lower maintenance, and approximately 5x higher release velocity. ### What is Deba's role in pricing and go-to-market at Harness? Deba is the hands-on product lead for pricing and packaging, conducting research, designing tiers and SKUs, building models, securing approvals, and enabling sales in partnership with the GM. The product supports multi-channel selling, and average deal sizes are in the mid-five figures. ### How does Deba run product development and discovery at Harness? Deba drives integration with Harness CD so QA verification is embedded in the deployment workflow, improving release confidence and accelerating CI/CD quality at scale. He conducts discovery through customer interviews, customer advisory boards, market analysis, and competitive analysis prioritizes with RICE and customer-value optimization and works with a global engineering, design, and documentation pod through daily standups, weekly releases, and monthly roadmap reviews. He also provides executive visibility through monthly product narratives and live demos and facilitates annual roadmap validations with enterprise stakeholders. ### What did Deba accomplish at Relicx? Deba was the founding PM and VP of Products at Relicx. He built and scaled the company’s AI-native testing platform from zero through its acquisition by Harness in August 2024, and the autonomous-testing technology became the foundation for Harness AI Test Automation. ### What products and customer outcomes did Deba establish at Relicx? At Relicx, Deba delivered general-availability-class session-replay-driven test generation, agentic autonomous testing for discovery and execution, and natural-language-to-test creation. The company also secured SOC 2 Type II compliance. With early adopters including 180 Medical and Electric.ai, Relicx demonstrated faster authoring, lower maintenance burden, higher coverage, fewer escaped defects, and faster release cadence. ### How did Deba build Relicx commercially and operationally? Deba led Relicx product strategy, UX, product marketing, developer relations, sales engineering, and customer success. He led a lean cross-functional team consisting of a designer, product-marketing contractors, and four front-end engineers grew from a five-logo design-partner program to more than 10 paying customers and six-figure ARR earned Product Hunt Product of the Day launched GitHub and Datadog integrations worked with Gartner and Forrester and managed customer-transition planning through the acquisition close. ### What did Deba do at Uber? At Uber, Deba was Lead Product Manager for Infrastructure & Cloud, driving cost efficiency, reliability, and developer productivity across infrastructure serving multiple product verticals. He owned product strategy for Docstore, Uber’s in-house distributed database with transaction support, and Sia, Uber’s in-house search solution for Uber Eats, Maps, and other uses. He also created long-term vision and roadmaps for storage and search, led efficiency programs across Compute, Storage, and Data Platforms, and developed platform strategy to improve developer productivity while reducing capacity cost. ### What self-service infrastructure products did Deba build at Uber? Deba built an AWS-like self-service portal that served as a product catalog for Uber developers, enabling engineers to provision certified, production-ready databases on demand. The portal cut support load and raised fleet utilization. He also worked on a Storage Portal for storage lifecycle management from deployment through decommissioning. ### What did Deba do at FaunaDB? As Head of Products at FaunaDB, Deba created durable product vision and roadmaps, prioritized features within available resources, authored requirements for core database innovations, and led pricing for the core database and its cloud serverless database service. He also developed collateral, conducted analyst briefings, set documentation roadmaps, and helped sales position the product for customer requirements. FaunaDB is a NoSQL database designed to provide data correctness without operational complexity at global scale, combining relational and NoSQL concepts with globally scaled ACID transactions. ### What was Deba's advisory work with Tigris Data? Deba advised Tigris Data’s founding team on positioning and its pitch deck, and sourced leads for its initial customer set. Tigris Data was a developer-focused data platform. ### What did Deba do at Robin.io? At Robin.io, a Rakuten Symphony company, Deba was Director of Products. He strategized, evangelized, facilitated, and tracked development of Robin Containerization Platform 3.0 gathered requirements and wrote PRDs created customer-facing content supported sales positioning produced whitepapers, marketing videos, website content, and solution decks for Oracle, Hadoop, and Cassandra established systems-integrator partnerships and presented at events, webinars, and analyst briefings. Robin is a container-based, application-centric compute and scale-out storage platform for mission-critical applications such as databases and Big Data. ### What did Deba do at CA Technologies? Deba was Director of Product Management at CA Technologies, where he led the product-management team for Test Data Management in the Continuous Testing business unit. ### What did Deba accomplish in Oracle product management? At Oracle, Deba was the first PM on Oracle Multitenant, which enables consolidation of existing databases in the cloud without application changes by allowing a multitenant container database to hold many virtual or pluggable databases. Multitenant enabled Oracle Database Cloud Service in Oracle Public Cloud and served as an application backend for several SaaS applications there. As Senior Principal Product Manager for Server Technologies, he worked with development, QA, marketing, support, pre-sales, and documentation analyzed revenue and initiated regional and vertical growth initiatives produced market-facing materials owned Multitenant in Minutes workshop material and training supported customers as a subject-matter expert and managed the Oracle Exadata plug-in and the Diagnostics and Tuning performance packs. He also conceived and created an Exadata management master class delivered globally to more than 300 sales consultants, covering Exadata, Supercluster, and Big Data Appliance management. ### What technical and consulting work did Deba perform at Oracle? As an Oracle Principal System Consultant, Deba was responsible for performance of Oracle’s global corporate warehouse, led the first implementation of Oracle Exadata within Oracle product-development IT, and implemented a 24/7-availability design even during long-running ETL jobs. He served as a performance architect and technical manager for customers including General Electric, Google, and Dell, and implemented performance fixes to meet SLAs. Earlier at Oracle, as Senior Database Administrator, he led the IDC migration team for the global single-instance migration project. ### What did Deba do at Cognizant and Tata Consultancy Services? At Cognizant, Deba was an onsite project manager and technical lead for implementation of the Oracle E-Business finance suite at CBS, a Viacom Inc. company, and received CBS Best Consultant recognition for 2004–05. He also performed business-development and pre-sales work for Cognizant’s Oracle ERP practice in Northeast America. At Tata Consultancy Services, he was a database administrator for Oracle E-Business Software implementations at Michelin Tires in France and Bengal Waterproof Limited in Calcutta. ### What is Deba's education and product or data-science training? Deba holds a B.PROD.E in Production Engineering from Jadavpur University, an MSE in Technology Management from The Wharton School, a Product Strategy Certificate in Product Management from Northwestern University, and a Data Science Specialization Track credential from The Johns Hopkins University. ### What are Deba's core professional skills? Deba's skills include product strategy, product management, product launch, AI, cloud infrastructure and cloud computing, databases, Oracle, Amazon RDS, data warehousing, analytics, data modeling, ETL, performance tuning, and enterprise software. His additional capabilities include team leadership, management, IT management, project management, software project management, Agile project management and methodologies, SDLC, software development life cycle, requirements analysis, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, pre-sales, Oracle Applications and Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Enterprise Manager, ERP and enterprise resource planning, Big Data, SaaS and software as a service, business intelligence, IT strategy, data migration, integration, and analytical skills. ### What work does Deba want to do next, and what does he do outside work? Deba is interested in owning the data layer that AI agents depend on at a growth-stage or public company, in a hands-on product role rather than managing an organization from a distance. Outside work, he runs long distances and builds side projects his weekend-built World Cup score tracker became popular through word of mouth. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debachatterjee