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title: "Ankit Podder, POPM, CSPO - Product Owner in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Ankit Podder, POPM, CSPO, AI Engineer & Digital Transformation Product Manager | Bridging Supply Chain ML, Business Strategy & UX Prototyping | SAFe 6.0 POPM & CSPO | Building 0-to-1 Agentic AI & Recommender Systems based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and ge..."
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# Ankit Podder, POPM, CSPO on Tal

## Headline

AI Engineer & Digital Transformation Product Manager \| Bridging Supply Chain ML, Business Strategy & UX Prototyping \| SAFe 6\.0 POPM & CSPO \| Building 0\-to\-1 Agentic AI & Recommender Systems

## About

I am a Full\-Stack AI Product Lead and Certified SAFe 6\.0 POPM with over 8 years of experience building enterprise\-grade AI products that transform global supply chains, logistics networks, and B2B commercial operations\. Operating at the rare intersection of operations research, machine learning, and human\-centered design, I act as both the Technical Product Owner and the 0\-to\-1 AI Prototyper\. I specialize in leveraging foundation models \(Claude, Google AI Studio\) to rapidly build and validate functional, code\-backed prototypes of Agentic AI and ML recommender systems\. This hands\-on prototyping validates UX, prompt architecture, and business logic before deploying full\-scale engineering teams, drastically reducing time\-to\-market and engineering costs\. Backed by an MBA in Logistics & Supply Chain Management and a PGP in Data Science, I am currently leading AI initiatives at Merck Life Science to optimize manufacturing networks and dynamic pricing\. Key Career Milestones: ● Enterprise AI & Prototyping: Spearheaded a B2B regulatory compliance platform, commercializing a data subscription model that generated €37 million in ARR\. ● Conversational AI & UX Design: Orchestrated the flow and user journey for AI\-driven chatbots and recommender systems, translating probabilistic ML outputs into intuitive, frictionless user interfaces\. ● Cost & Capacity Optimization \(Ex\-Amazon\): Launched a Reverse Logistics asset, utilizing regression models to optimize truck space\. Designed operational workflows that reduced recovery costs by 7% \(saving €500,000/week\) and saved 80 FTEs\. ● Regulatory & Quality Compliance: Deep expertise in executing risk\-based UX/feature validation using CSA guidelines and enforcing ALCOA\+ principles for rigorous, audit\-ready GxP compliance\. I am deeply passionate about continuous innovation and am currently completing an advanced certification in Designing and Building AI Products and Services from MIT xPRO, alongside specialized training in Agentic AI\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

gemini

langfuse

notebooklm

claudecode

## Work experience

Product Owner at Merck Life Science, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Data Scientist II at Merck Life Science, Jul 2024 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Supply Chain \- Specialist at Merck Life Science, Jun 2023 \- Aug 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Supply Chain Analyst \- Senior Associate at Clean Harbors, Sep 2021 \- Jun 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Hyder, • Designed and implemented metrics to optimized inventory\. • Created Power Bi dashboards to show insights of different region’s inventory level\. • Improved order visibility for network and reduced dependencies on various teams\. • Improved and organize the order releasing process for demand planning\. • Extract data from databases for analyses reports\. • Automate Excel reports with VBA and Macros\.

Transportation & Network Analyst at Amazon, Aug 2018 \- Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Managed and supervised the shift and new hires\. • Researched and suggested new sites for Reverse Logistics movement and storage facilities\. • Launched new item for material handling\. • Facilitated flow of information between different stakeholder and resolved any potential issues that impacts customers experience and business continuity in Pan\-Europe\. • Provided timely resolution to the issues in hand by researching and querying internal tools by taking real time decision\. • Developing and understanding performance metric to assist with business results\. • Extracted data from numerous databases \(using Excel, SQL and other DMS\) and to perform adhoc reporting and analysis as needed\. • Work with various time constraints to meet critical business needs while measuring and identifying activities performed\. • Created Tableau dashboards to show insights of different portfolios and detailed reports for leadership to assist leaderships decisions\.

Research Intern at International School of Engineering \(INSOFE\), Jan 2018 \- May 2018 · 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Built dashboards for clients using Tableau and Microsoft Excel\. • Researched on different approaches on Imbalance data\. • Built machine learning models and project forecast different data sets\.

Summer Management Intern at SathyaRav Pvt\. Ltd\., Jan 2017 \- Jun 2017 · 6 mos, • Assisted in documentation of perishable cargo\. • Gained knowledge on traditional approaches and suggested modern approaches on perishable cargoes\.

## Education

PGP in Data Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial intelligence, International School of Engineering \(INSOFE\)

Diploma in Supply Chain Management \- IFPSCM, Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management, Indian Institute of Materials Management, Mumbai

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