Headline

Figuring Things Out | AI Products & Agentic Workflows | PM × Engineer | Shipping practical AI experiments

About

I’m a product manager focused on the intersection of data, platforms, and applied AI. I’m drawn to problems where user needs are ambiguous, tradeoffs are real, and the product has to earn its place. My current focus is AI agents: workflow design, evals, reliability, human handoffs, and what separates a useful system from a polished demo. Currently at Nielsen leading Digital Content Ratings product that process billions of content data points across EMEA, APAC & North America markets making multi millions revenue. By day: Enterprise SaaS. Measurement infrastructure. Billion-scale data products. By night: I build AI tools, test every new model that drops, and ship side projects with proper builder energy. Before Nielsen, I spent 24 months at Altimetrik and 18 months build a company that didn't work out fundamentally, pivoted to service model ( $20K MRR). Learned more from that failure than MBA could teach me/I could learn from success. I write about: → AI tools I actually tested (with results, not hype) → PM frameworks from real enterprise product work → Builder logs from my side projects → What's happening in India's AI ecosystem If you want to see what happens when a PM gets their hands dirty building with AI, building measurement products at scale, and sharing the real lessons; stick around. 10K+ PMs, founders, and builders already do.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

hermes agent

opencode

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Albertsons Companies, Sep 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru

Product Manager II at Nielsen, Mar 2024 - Aug 2026 · 2 y 5 mo, Bengaluru, - Leading 3 content product lines worth multi million ARR - Digital Content Ratings Census & Panel, YouTube Digital, RLD. - DCR product live across 6 markets in EMEA, APAC & North America - building stable and accurate digital content measurement to support always-on audience reporting for broadcasters and streamers - Coordinating with 40+ cross-functional stakeholders across sales, engineering, data science, panel ops, and client solutions to deliver product across multiple geographies simultaneously

Product Manager at Altimetrik, Aug 2023 - Mar 2024 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Solving problems for the Onboarding and sourcing module(Employee Referral, Internal Jobs and Onboarding) of employees to make sure the experience is delightful and converts the business value to the companies.

Associate Product Manager at Altimetrik, Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Working on a 0 - 1 SaaS platform for seamless employee experience and engagement in the companies. - Won the "Rise and Shine" and "Pat on the Back" awards for two consecutive quarters for solving problems through Innovative features and showcasing leadership skills. - Coordinating across teams to design, develop, and ship features through Agile that elevate employee experiences.

Product Management Intern at Altimetrik, Apr 2022 - Jul 2022 · 4 mos

Serial Builder at Job Funnel, Nov 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Product Manager at VIKSHOP, Sep 2021 - Nov 2021 · 3 mos, Building cool stuff for Tier-2 and Tier-3 audience ( Launching Soon to end curiosity)

Founding Partner at ASTROTOPPEX TECH SOLUTIONS LLP, Oct 2020 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Education

Product Management, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, PES college of Engineering, Mandya

Public links

github: https://github.com/mrforward

medium: https://medium.com/@chaitanya-athukuri