Headline

Building Scalable Products

About

"𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵." With 8+ years across Amazon operations, startup BD, and enterprise SaaS engineering, and nearly 4 years of actually shipping the products I now want to manage. I speak Developer and Stakeholder fluently — not because I read about both, but because I've lived both. I've reconciled vendor payments end-to-end, built a product catalog from scratch, and shipped APIs and integrations that enterprise customers depend on daily. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱: 🔹 Resolved ₹20M in Price Purchase Variance and drove a 93% reduction in variance rate (6.01% → 0.41%) across 224 vendors and 9 cities at Amazon — earning an Exceeds performance rating 🔹 Shipped 782 PRs across 24 codebases at Codebees and AppDirect, resolving 340+ production issues and leading 7+ cross-repository product initiatives on an enterprise telecom SaaS platform 🔹 Built the product catalog and ran seasonal campaigns from scratch at UrbanKisaan, working directly with the CEO — and made the call to not scale a B2B model after feasibility research showed it wasn't viable 🔹 Shipped live AI products independently: an AI shopping agent with a full RAG pipeline, an AI-native wedding planning platform, and a travel safety app — while directing 89.5% AI-assisted code through Cursor since December 2025 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻: Completed my PM Fellowship at ProductSpace (Cohort 27) — writing PRDs, running product sprints, and shipping live products end-to-end. Based in Hyderabad. Open to Bangalore, Chennai and remote. Targeting Product Management roles. — I'm always open to a good conversation. 📧 iamakhilmankala@gmail.com

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

claude code

cursor

n8n

notebooklm

Figma Make

Wispr Flow

Work experience

Software Engineer (SDE 2) at AppDirect, Nov 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Software Engineer II at Codebees Technologies Private Limited, Jun 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Business Development Lead at UrbanKisaan, Dec 2021 - May 2022 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Senior Business Operations Lead at Amazon, Aug 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Business Operations Associate at Amazon, Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Master's Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH)