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Krishna Vijayakumar

Product @ DriveX | Building Marketplaces | Co-Founder @ Mantis | IIT Madras

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

DriveX
Aug 20251 yr 1 moPresent

Led and owned a live B2B marketplace as sole PM. Now building a separate 0-to-1 dealer-auction ecosystem with board-level and C-suite leaders across engineering, design, business, operations, and legal. • Owned and scaled a WhatsApp-first B2B marketplace to INR 12Cr+ and 3M+ automated messages. Cut manual bid intervention by ~95%. • Building a 0-to-1 dealer-auction ecosystem spanning four apps (iOS & Android) and an operations platform. • Built and initially owned a C2C marketplace. Scaled it to 10k+ monthly buyers and 500+ monthly vehicle sales. Built a paid Quality Report product used a trust lever. • Owned launch readiness for a standalone Dealer Management System. Rebuilt analytics across 4.4k+ deliveries. Shipped ten live funnels and five adopted dashboards. • Applied behavioral economics to onboarding, pricing, bidding and communications. Designed clearer choices and lower-friction marketplace journeys.
Mantis Technologies
Feb 20242 yrs 7 mosPresent

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Headed product design, development and strategy. Filed two patents-Design and Utility, for AR/XR integrated surgical visualisation systems.
DriveX
Mar 20256 mosAug 2025

• Designed the auction and communication logic to support chat-UX for India's first WhatsApp based AI B2B auction marketplace (~80% automation) • Led discovery, specifications, design and engineering alignment, UAT, launch, and early C2C marketplace operations. • Built marketplace automation and re-auction workflows that became the foundation for a live dealer B2B marketplace.
CorpStage
Oct 20235 mosFeb 2024

Singapore

Drafted proposals/budget outlines for major oil & gas, hospitality, and construction clients from South East Asia. Secured a 95% win rate and 20% new client inquiries, generating 5 Cr+ INR in potential revenue in acquiring new projects.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Jul 202311 mosMay 2024

IIT Madras

Led a six-member team managing an INR 4Cr+ sports-infrastructure budget; renovated two facilities and procured INR 10L+ in equipment serving 200+ athletes and 1,000+ daily users.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
May 20221 yr 1 moMay 2023

Brahmaputra Hostel

GitHub
@mantis9180

Krishna’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Master of Arts - MA, Development Studies

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

20205 yrs2025

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Headline

Product @ DriveX | Building Marketplaces | Co-Founder @ Mantis | IIT Madras

About

As a product builder at the intersection of fragmented markets, human behaviour and operational complexity, I enjoy turning field insights and ambiguity into scalable marketplaces, zero-to-one systems and measurable workflows. I believe in a simple principle: understand the human system deeply, then build the machinery that helps it work better.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

hermes agent

hugging face

lovable

obsidian

Work experience

Associate Product Manager at DriveX, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Led and owned a live B2B marketplace as sole PM. Now building a separate 0-to-1 dealer-auction ecosystem with board-level and C-suite leaders across engineering, design, business, operations, and legal. • Owned and scaled a WhatsApp-first B2B marketplace to INR 12Cr+ and 3M+ automated messages. Cut manual bid intervention by ~95%. • Building a 0-to-1 dealer-auction ecosystem spanning four apps (iOS & Android) and an operations platform. • Built and initially owned a C2C marketplace. Scaled it to 10k+ monthly buyers and 500+ monthly vehicle sales. Built a paid Quality Report product used a trust lever. • Owned launch readiness for a standalone Dealer Management System. Rebuilt analytics across 4.4k+ deliveries. Shipped ten live funnels and five adopted dashboards. • Applied behavioral economics to onboarding, pricing, bidding and communications. Designed clearer choices and lower-friction marketplace journeys.

Co-Founder at Mantis Technologies, Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Headed product design, development and strategy. Filed two patents-Design and Utility, for AR/XR integrated surgical visualisation systems.

Product Management Intern at DriveX, Mar 2025 - Aug 2025 · 6 mos, • Designed the auction and communication logic to support chat-UX for India's first WhatsApp based AI B2B auction marketplace (~80% automation) • Led discovery, specifications, design and engineering alignment, UAT, launch, and early C2C marketplace operations. • Built marketplace automation and re-auction workflows that became the foundation for a live dealer B2B marketplace.

ESG Consultant at CorpStage, Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 · 5 mos, Singapore, Drafted proposals/budget outlines for major oil & gas, hospitality, and construction clients from South East Asia. Secured a 95% win rate and 20% new client inquiries, generating 5 Cr+ INR in potential revenue in acquiring new projects.

Head, Sports Executive Council at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Jul 2023 - May 2024 · 11 mos, IIT Madras, Led a six-member team managing an INR 4Cr+ sports-infrastructure budget; renovated two facilities and procured INR 10L+ in equipment serving 200+ athletes and 1,000+ daily users.

Sports Secretary at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Brahmaputra Hostel

Education

Master of Arts - MA, Development Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Public links

github: https://github.com/mantis9180