Headline

Senior AI Product Manager | Building production-grade applied-AI products | AI Value Engineering | Ex-CTO & published researcher | Exploring AI × biotech / quantum-tech

About

10 years turning AI from research labs into real-world impact, from startup CTO to enterprise AI product leadership, with a hand in a startup acquisition and a Series A along the way. I own the full journey, customer problem to production to measurable value. I've built AI that inspects factory floors, runs procurement, guides vehicles, sharpens medical diagnostics, and powers construction sites, most recently as Senior AI Product Manager at Aerchain, shipping 150+ AI agents into live procurement workflows. Before that I turned industrial AI into hard business value through value engineering at Accenture / Flutura, and co-founded Tessellate Imaging as CTO, open-sourcing the Monk computer-vision toolkit. Published researcher, educator, and hands-on builder. I care about AI that actually ships and creates value, not demos. Now aiming higher: global, high-impact work in sustainability and human life, and the frontier where AI meets biotech and quantum-tech, towards a legacy that lasts. Honors: Most Influential Young Data Scientist (ISoDS) · Google Summer of Code Scholar. Let's build something that matters: abhishek.annamraju@gmail.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

hugging face

langchain

lovable

openai

Work experience

Senior Product (AI) Manager at Aerchain, May 2024 - Aug 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Core Role: Acted as a bridge between customer facing teams and product development teams while working as a senior builder/IC for all AI solutions. - AI Product Design & Development - Led AI design and development across Aerchain’s sourcing platform, deployed for 10+ enterprise customers. - Built workflows across Intake, Sourcing, Vendor Recommendations, RFX, Evaluation, Negotiation, Contracting, and Award Generation. - High-Impact AI Solutions - Built a multi-vendor, multi-constraint award optimization engine, delivering $30K–$50K monthly savings for a beverage manufacturer. - Architected a Procurement Knowledge Bank combining millions of purchase records and GBs of unstructured data. Included a 50+ sub-modules for human-assisted data-cleaning pipeline for procurement, vendor, invoice, and unstructured data. - Built a business-aware demo system configurator, reducing sales-view customer setup of demos time from days to hours. - Core tech stack overiew - Designed and deployed 150+ AI agents across OpenAI GPT, Gemini, and self-hosted Hugging Face models. - Worked across LLM orchestration, retrieval, data intelligence, optimization, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop systems. - Rapid Prototyping & Product Innovation - Rapidly prototyped emerging AI capabilities to validate use cases and accelerate productization.

AI (Value) Engineering Assoc. Manager at Accenture, Nov 2023 - Apr 2024 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Core Roles - Value Engineering and Pre-Sales - Helping Industries realize business value via AI and IOT (Oil & Gas, Renewables, Manufacturing, Mining, FMCG). - Consulting industrial sector in improving production throughput, product quality and energy efficiency via Accenture Industrial Intelligence Suite. - Bridging the gap between sales and product departments for a seamless sales and delivery cycles.

Product Manager (Industrial Machine Vision) at Flutura Decision Sciences & Analytics (Acquired by Accenture), Apr 2023 - Oct 2023 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Core Roles - Value Engineering and Pre-Sales - Helping Customers realize business value via Industrial AI solutions. - Product Ownership - Cerebra Vision Intelligence Platform - Product Management - No-Code Computer Vision Toolkit for Industrial Engineers, Workers and Managers - Project Lifecycle Management - Project Scoping, Architecture Design, Technical Roadmap and Specification discussions, Development and Delivery.

Computer Vision Course Development Consultant at DYSMECH CONSULTANCY SERVICES PVT. LTD., Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 · 7 mos, India, Developing a course on computer vision and Natural Language Processing - Course covering basic to intermediate topics in image processing and computer vision - Semester long course being introduced to various Engineering colleges in India by DCS Course Content - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IH02x3grLejzi764-JrAU8QpvpciIjUng8EhxPX5vmM/edit?usp=sharing

Associate Product Manager (Industrial Machine Vision) at Flutura Decision Sciences & Analytics (Acquired by Accenture), Jan 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Core Roles - Leading the design and development of Cerebra Vision Intelligence Platform ​ - Anchoring the transformation from monolithic product architecture to microservices oriented design for 5x faster configuration, deployment and scaling ​ - Prime architect behind a no-code computer vision project lifecycle management engine that will reduce prototyping and configuration time by 10x.​ - Heading the end-to-end project lifecycle, from introductory client calls till deployment for all projects (and prospects).​ - Helping presales with project scoping, architectural design, sensor & server specifications, and costing.​ - Standardized the process of product costing at multiple levels – configuration costs, hardware costs, licensing costs. ​ - Played a key role in r&d for adding and templatizing 50+ signature extraction algorithms, implementing synthetic data generation and involving ethical AI best practices. Projects - Iron ore pelletization wastage reduction System (Object recognition, counting and size estimation)​: Led the successful deployment leading to reduction in rejection rates by 20% within a week of deployment.​ Anchored the development of a deep learning system that provided 90%+ accuracy in extreme dust filled and low-lighting environment. ​Project deployed at scale with real time processing at edge. *Details for other projects cannot be shared here.

Chief Technology Officer (Computer Vision) at Tessellate Imaging, May 2017 - Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Pune, - Successfully delivered 10+ client projects in a span of 3 years. - Pioneered open-source initiatives that gave the company an edge over our competitors. - Promoted digital presence which helped gain new clients. - Guided 20+ interns and team mates with entire process-flow.

Education

B.E(Hons.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Electronics, Dinanath junior college