Hello, World! I am
Megha Pathak
I build and envision Products.
I'm a Product-minded Developer, Open Source Creator passionate about envisioning and developing great products. I am exploring my interest along the lines of Product Management and Development.
I often write case studies to share my thoughts about different products. Along with documenting my journey as I learn and build new stuff.
My Story
I began my Career Exploration with a blank Canvas in 2017. With time, I explored a bunch of things by getting my hands dirty in different domains through different internships and Personal projects. All I wanted was to connect together diverse interests of mine.
Product Management is a field that helps me do that since I look at myself at the epicenter of business, technology, and UI/UX. I am passionate for building and envisioning great products. My compentence with Front-end development, strategic product mindset and entrepreneurial acumen enables me to achieve the vision I have for my career. Along with motivating me to push my limits.
Things I do when I am not working:
- Painting and Illustrating
- Reading Psychological blogs
- Petting Dogs
- Building Communities
- Writing Fictional Stories
- Binge watching videos about Art and Philosophy
Featured Projects and Product Teardowns
Featured Project
Hacket - Privacy Card Game
Hacket is a Privacy card game to educate internet newbies about CyberSecurity in an interactive way. This is a card game that takes the player through different privacy situations and asks for the response they will choose. The points given to them specify how good their choice is.
- Vanilla JS
- CSS
- HTML
Featured Project
Dodo - the debugging duck
A chrome extension to overlay a tiny duck, as a digital companion during debugging and general development work. Helpful Debugging Suggestions. Some broad ideas of things to change/do, some oddly specific things to change/do, also some Motivational texts. 15 minute alarms, when you need a short break, so you don't loose track of time. Links to developer-friendly sites like StackOverflow, GitHub, Reddit and CodePen and option of adding customized links as well.
- Vanilla JS
- Chrome Extension
More Projects and Product Case Studies
Open Source Contribution - Season of Design
Season of Design is an Open Source Project I contributed to. "Season of Design" is one of the new initiative by Codeuino with a goal to provide a platform for designers and Open source organizations to collaborate and work to improve the design of their open source projects. Since not many designers are a part of the open-source community, we want to bridge the gap between them and let them gain experience in contributing to open source communities. For designers who are a part of open source communities, it provides them a way to collaborate with other designers and find ways to work more effectively. Being a JavaScript developer, I am helping in building this platform from ground up
Work Experience
Community Volunteer @ The Product Folks
Aug 2020 - Present
- Helped scale a product community - TPF by helping the team with growth. Grew from 150 people to 1600 within four months.
- Increased Monthy active community members by 600% by pulling different initiatives in the community.
- Volunteered in various initiatives of TPF such as creation of an APM launchpad program for India and the launch of the biggest Product Summit of India.
Recent Articles
Career Insights into Product Management - ft. Sarosh Mohammad [Senior PM @ Microsoft]
While keeping up with my interest in Product Management, I wrote a blog post on - Career Insights into Product Management, based on my learning by listening to Sarosh Mohammad [Senior PM @ Microsoft]. The blog got featured in Medium’s largest publication The Startup.
Why Product thinking is essential for Developers and how to apply it?
A blog describing the difference between Project thinking and Product thinking. Along, with the structure of Product thinking that developers can adept while working on software. The blog got featured in - Weekly Webtips publication.
Talks
Breaking into Development with Open Source @ Girls Who JS
In this talk I explained the Why, What and How of Breaking into Development with Open Source. You can watch it here.
Let's Talk!
Get In Touch
When you have came this far, feel free to shoot me an email to discuss any idea, project or just for a good chat! I love baking stories over insightful discussions and coffee.