Divya Taori

Seasoned product leader with ~7 years of experience in product advocacy and leading software development projects for high-profile clients. Adept at problem-solving, data-driven decision-making and stakeholder management.

Work Experience

Senior Developer Evangelist | R3 Corda, Mumbai

  • Spearheaded professional services engagements with central banks, financial institutions, and technology companies, onboarding clients on the Corda platform and contributing to over $500k in revenue.
  • Directed user-story mapping and agile development of Commercial Bank Money Token for the German Banking Industry Committee, showcasing wallet-to-wallet conditional payments and Delivery versus Payment (DvP).
  • Optimized the Developer Portal by doing user research, gathering UX feedback and running analyticsresulting in a 12% increase in user retention rate.
  • Led development and management of developer tools for the software platform Corda, incorporating feedback from the community, thereby improving developer experience and adoption.
  • Championed the needs of the community of 10k+ developers and advocated for enhancements to products and APIs to meet developer needs through cross-functional collaboration, resulting in improved product roadmap decisions.
  • Orchestrated roundtable discussions, meetups, and webinars, engaging with over 500+ attendees, from C-suite to developers, to drive awareness and activation of the platform, resulting in 30+ developer-qualified leads.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for any technical queries to sales, customer relations and documentation teams. 

 

Developer Evangelist | R3 Corda, Mumbai

  • Planned and executed the company’s inaugural Developer Week, engaging with 1,000+ developers, fostering community interaction and technical skill-building
  • Led influencer marketing campaigns to roll out 6 focused videos and how-to guides, achieving an average view count of 13k.

 

Project Engineer, CTO Team | Wipro Technologies, Bangalore

  • Spearheaded team towards software design and development (SDLC) for 5+ blockchain applications to demonstrate blockchain value proposition to clients. Attained a NPS of 5/5.
  • Served as a maintainer and contributor for open-source SDK development for Hyperledger Avalon, a Linux Foundation-sponsored.
  • Directed agile development of a digital cold chain solution using IOT for a German pharma client, enhancing traceability and compliance while reducing cold-chain wastage and counterfeiting.
  • Developed a solution to tackle unsolicited commercial communication in the telecom sector, enabling telecom companies and TRAI to overcome problems of subscriber data leak, huge penalization and law violations. Published as a paper.
  • Automated the process of code integration and code deployment on the cloud to accelerate the software development lifecycle, thereby making the release pipeline ~30% leaner.
  • Implemented a Proof of Concept (POC) for a decentralized RTGS system, Project Inthanon, for the Bank of Thailand, demonstrating various operations of the wholesale banking process such as decentralized bilateral transfers, tokenization, detokenization of cash and bonds, etc.
Accomplishments
  • Published a paper on “Design of a Low Noise Pixel Buffer for CMOS Image Sensor” at the 2nd National Conference on Recent Advances in Science and Technology-2016
  • Published paper on “A decentralized, distributed approach to unsolicited commercial communication at Thrid Workshop on blockchain technologies and applications, IIT Bombay, Jan 2019. The paper presents a Distributed Ledger Technology solution that respects Consumer Consent and a Zero-Knowledge Proof-based blockchain solution addressing Consumer Privacy concerns in the Telecom sector
  • All India Rank Percentile of 99.7 (AIR 4136) for Engineering entrance exam
  • Awarded Inspire Scholarship by the Government of India for top 1% in class 12th across India
  • Won awards at Blockchain Hackathon, Sponsored by Government of Karnataka and Hedera Blockchain Hackathon
Education

Bachelor’s of Engineering(Hons), Electronics and Instrumentation, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management, Duke Corporate Education
 

Certificates
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner 1, Scrum.org
  • Google Analytics Individual Qualification, Google Analytics Academy
  • Design Thinking For Innovation, Coursera, University of Virginia
Co/Extra-curricular
  • Core committee member of the Alumni Committee of PGPX class of 2025 – an elected position - College Level (2024-2025)
  • Publicity Head, Instrumentation Forum, BITS Pilani (2013-2016)
  • Core Member Department of Art, Design and Publicity, BITS Pilani (2013-2016)
  • Core Member BITSAA Bangalore Chapter (BITS Alumni Association) 
  • Volunteered with Evidyaloka to teach high school English and Maths to underprivileged children living in construction sites and slums
     

Quick Look

  • Work Experience: 6.9 Years
  • Previous Roles

    Senior Developer Evangelist, R3 Corda

    Project Engineer, Wipro Technologies

  • Function : Product Management/Development
  • Industry/Sector: BFSI
    Technology
Work Experience

Senior Developer Evangelist | R3 Corda, Mumbai

  • Spearheaded professional services engagements with central banks, financial institutions, and technology companies, onboarding clients on the Corda platform and contributing to over $500k in revenue.
  • Directed user-story mapping and agile development of Commercial Bank Money Token for the German Banking Industry Committee, showcasing wallet-to-wallet conditional payments and Delivery versus Payment (DvP).
  • Optimized the Developer Portal by doing user research, gathering UX feedback and running analyticsresulting in a 12% increase in user retention rate.
  • Led development and management of developer tools for the software platform Corda, incorporating feedback from the community, thereby improving developer experience and adoption.
  • Championed the needs of the community of 10k+ developers and advocated for enhancements to products and APIs to meet developer needs through cross-functional collaboration, resulting in improved product roadmap decisions.
  • Orchestrated roundtable discussions, meetups, and webinars, engaging with over 500+ attendees, from C-suite to developers, to drive awareness and activation of the platform, resulting in 30+ developer-qualified leads.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for any technical queries to sales, customer relations and documentation teams. 

 

Developer Evangelist | R3 Corda, Mumbai

  • Planned and executed the company’s inaugural Developer Week, engaging with 1,000+ developers, fostering community interaction and technical skill-building
  • Led influencer marketing campaigns to roll out 6 focused videos and how-to guides, achieving an average view count of 13k.

 

Project Engineer, CTO Team | Wipro Technologies, Bangalore

  • Spearheaded team towards software design and development (SDLC) for 5+ blockchain applications to demonstrate blockchain value proposition to clients. Attained a NPS of 5/5.
  • Served as a maintainer and contributor for open-source SDK development for Hyperledger Avalon, a Linux Foundation-sponsored.
  • Directed agile development of a digital cold chain solution using IOT for a German pharma client, enhancing traceability and compliance while reducing cold-chain wastage and counterfeiting.
  • Developed a solution to tackle unsolicited commercial communication in the telecom sector, enabling telecom companies and TRAI to overcome problems of subscriber data leak, huge penalization and law violations. Published as a paper.
  • Automated the process of code integration and code deployment on the cloud to accelerate the software development lifecycle, thereby making the release pipeline ~30% leaner.
  • Implemented a Proof of Concept (POC) for a decentralized RTGS system, Project Inthanon, for the Bank of Thailand, demonstrating various operations of the wholesale banking process such as decentralized bilateral transfers, tokenization, detokenization of cash and bonds, etc.
Accomplishments
  • Published a paper on “Design of a Low Noise Pixel Buffer for CMOS Image Sensor” at the 2nd National Conference on Recent Advances in Science and Technology-2016
  • Published paper on “A decentralized, distributed approach to unsolicited commercial communication at Thrid Workshop on blockchain technologies and applications, IIT Bombay, Jan 2019. The paper presents a Distributed Ledger Technology solution that respects Consumer Consent and a Zero-Knowledge Proof-based blockchain solution addressing Consumer Privacy concerns in the Telecom sector
  • All India Rank Percentile of 99.7 (AIR 4136) for Engineering entrance exam
  • Awarded Inspire Scholarship by the Government of India for top 1% in class 12th across India
  • Won awards at Blockchain Hackathon, Sponsored by Government of Karnataka and Hedera Blockchain Hackathon
Education

Bachelor’s of Engineering(Hons), Electronics and Instrumentation, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management, Duke Corporate Education
 

Certificates
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner 1, Scrum.org
  • Google Analytics Individual Qualification, Google Analytics Academy
  • Design Thinking For Innovation, Coursera, University of Virginia
Co/Extra-curricular
  • Core committee member of the Alumni Committee of PGPX class of 2025 – an elected position - College Level (2024-2025)
  • Publicity Head, Instrumentation Forum, BITS Pilani (2013-2016)
  • Core Member Department of Art, Design and Publicity, BITS Pilani (2013-2016)
  • Core Member BITSAA Bangalore Chapter (BITS Alumni Association) 
  • Volunteered with Evidyaloka to teach high school English and Maths to underprivileged children living in construction sites and slums