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Kanha Kalingo

Mining grad turned Product Manager || APM @ DataFlow Group || Ex-Growth @ NxtWave || NIT Rourkela ’26 || Amazon ML ’24

Greater Bengaluru Area

3+ years of work experience

DataFlow Group
Jul 20263 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DataFlow Group
Mar 20265 mosJul 2026

On-site

NxtWave
Feb 20262 mosMar 2026

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

- Analysed 10,000+ monthly users via Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, reviewing 200+ session recordings to identify 5 major funnel drop off points. - Ran 8+ hypothesis driven experiments across TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU stages, improving landing page conversion by 15%. - Built 4 landing pages on Lovable and cut bounce rate by 20%, documenting all experiments in Notion while collaborating with 3 cross functional teams.
Career Development Center, NIT Rourkela
May 20251 yr 2 mosJun 2026

Raurkela, Odisha, India

- Coordinated campus recruitment for 1,500+ students across 100+ companies as the key link between recruiters, students, and the CDC. - Managed end to end operations for 200+ placement drives, covering slot allocation, 50+ pre placement talks, assessments, and 5,000+ interview rounds. - Built placement dashboards tracking offers, CTC, and company wise data, and resolved 500+ student queries with zero reporting errors.
Cosmopolitan, NIT Rourkela
Jul 20241 yr 2 mosAug 2025

Raurkela, Odisha, India

- led a structured 3-tier team to deliver a flagship 3-day multi-ethnic cultural fest and celebrity night with 7,000+ attendees. - Strategically planned and managed a ₹1 Cr event budget, overseeing end-to-end operations including logistics, performances, vendor management, and stakeholder coordination.
Finance-Club
May 20241 yr 1 moMay 2025

NIT Rourkela

- Managed the club's annual budget across 10+ events and initiatives, planning allocations and tracking every expense to keep records fully audit ready. - Coordinated with 8+ event leads and stakeholders to allocate funds, releasing payments within 48 hours on average and staying within budget for 100% of events. - Prepared monthly financial reports and maintained documentation for 150+ transactions, reducing reimbursement settlement time by 40% through a structured tracking system.
Finance-Club
Dec 20223 yrs 8 mosJul 2026

Nit Rourkela

Kanha’s AI Stack

claude
claude
kiro
kiro
openai
openai
Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Q Developer
ChatGPT
ChatGPT

Education

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mining engineering

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

20224 yrs2026
Mother's Public School

Mother's Public School

20202 yrs2022

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Headline

Mining grad turned Product Manager || APM @ DataFlow Group || Ex-Growth @ NxtWave || NIT Rourkela ’26 || Amazon ML ’24

About

I started in Mining Engineering. Today I build products. Strange pivot? Maybe. But it's the most useful thing that ever happened to me. I'm an Associate Product Manager at DataFlow Group, where my job is simple to say and hard to do: turn messy user problems into products people actually use. I found product through growth. At NxtWave, I spent my days inside Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, hunting funnel drop-offs, running hypothesis-driven experiments, and shipping landing pages to move conversion. That's where I learned my favourite lesson in product management: the data doesn't care about your opinion. Somewhere in between, I coordinated campus placements for 1,500+ students at NIT Rourkela and got selected for Amazon ML Summer School 2024. Managing recruiters, students, and deadlines that don't move taught me more about stakeholder management than any framework ever has. What I care about: product strategy, user research, analytics, and where AI is taking all of it. I write about product management and breaking into PM from a non-traditional background. The honest version, not the LinkedIn-guru version. If you're building something interesting, navigating a similar pivot, or just want to talk product, my DMs are open.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

kiro

openai

Amazon Q Developer

ChatGPT

Work experience

Associate Product Manager at DataFlow Group, Jul 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Management Intern at DataFlow Group, Mar 2026 - Jul 2026 · 5 mos, On-site

Growth Intern at NxtWave, Feb 2026 - Mar 2026 · 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, - Analysed 10,000+ monthly users via Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, reviewing 200+ session recordings to identify 5 major funnel drop off points. - Ran 8+ hypothesis driven experiments across TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU stages, improving landing page conversion by 15%. - Built 4 landing pages on Lovable and cut bounce rate by 20%, documenting all experiments in Notion while collaborating with 3 cross functional teams.

Placement Coordinator at Career Development Center, NIT Rourkela, May 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos, Raurkela, Odisha, India, - Coordinated campus recruitment for 1,500+ students across 100+ companies as the key link between recruiters, students, and the CDC. - Managed end to end operations for 200+ placement drives, covering slot allocation, 50+ pre placement talks, assessments, and 5,000+ interview rounds. - Built placement dashboards tracking offers, CTC, and company wise data, and resolved 500+ student queries with zero reporting errors.

Mentor at Cosmopolitan, NIT Rourkela, Jul 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Raurkela, Odisha, India, - led a structured 3-tier team to deliver a flagship 3-day multi-ethnic cultural fest and celebrity night with 7,000+ attendees. - Strategically planned and managed a ₹1 Cr event budget, overseeing end-to-end operations including logistics, performances, vendor management, and stakeholder coordination.

Treasurer at Finance-Club, May 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, NIT Rourkela, - Managed the club's annual budget across 10+ events and initiatives, planning allocations and tracking every expense to keep records fully audit ready. - Coordinated with 8+ event leads and stakeholders to allocate funds, releasing payments within 48 hours on average and staying within budget for 100% of events. - Prepared monthly financial reports and maintained documentation for 150+ transactions, reducing reimbursement settlement time by 40% through a structured tracking system.

Finance enthusiast at Finance-Club, Dec 2022 - Jul 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Nit Rourkela

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mining engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Mother's Public School