--- title: "Mahima Shirshetty - Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal" description: "Meet Mahima Shirshetty, Product x AI @ NetApp | Ex-Google | IIM Bangalore | NIT Surat based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and gemini." image: "https://tal.club/meet/mahima-shirshetty/share-image" --- # Mahima Shirshetty on Tal ## Headline Product x AI @ NetApp \| Ex\-Google \| IIM Bangalore \| NIT Surat ## About As Product Manager 3 at NetApp, I contribute to the development of Azure NetApp Files by leading feature enhancements and optimizing data management strategies\. Collaborating with business and finance teams, I focus on pricing strategies to maximize customer value and revenue growth\. My work is shaped by an AI\-first approach and first\-principles thinking, leveraging Agentic AI workflows to drive innovation\. With an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a Bachelor's in Engineering from NIT Surat, I bring a multidisciplinary perspective to my role\. My previous experiences include AI strategy development at RagaAI and crafting GTM strategies for Google Cloud\. Passionate about leveraging technology to create impactful solutions, I aim to drive sustainable and customer\-centric growth\. ## Location Bengaluru ## AI stack claude cursor gemini github copilot openai Microsoft Copilot ## Work experience Product Manager at NetApp, Apr 2025 \- Present 路 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Product: Azure NetApp Files, a first\-party service integrated with Microsoft Azure An AI\-first PM with first principles thinking by integrating Agentic AI workflows and MCP servers in my day\-to\-day tasks\. Nominated & Selected to attend "Grace Hopper Celebration 2026" in LA, California \- the world's largest gathering of women and non\-binary technologists 馃搷 Lead the development of new features and enhancements focused on data management and cost optimization, ensuring our service meets the needs of a diverse range of customers while contributing to revenue growth and driving the product's strategic vision 馃搷Collaborate closely with business and finance teams on pricing strategies to maximize customer value and drive revenue growth 馃搷Partner with engineering teams to design the feature roadmap, drive enhancements, and deliver high\-impact solutions that align with the product's long\-term vision 馃搷Engage directly with customers, helping them optimize performance, achieve high availability, and reduce total cost of ownership through innovative features like tiering to low\-cost storage 馃搷Contribute to the product's overall strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market demands to drive adoption and growth 馃搷Passionate about enabling customer success and driving impactful outcomes in performance\-intensive environments using AI tools Founder's Office: AI Strategy at RagaAI Inc, Oct 2024 \- Jan 2025 路 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 馃搷Analyzed funding trends to estimate demand & build usecases for Agentic AI market 馃搷Researched on the available potential industry\-wise usecases for AI Agents 馃搷Collaborated in the drafting of a document on 'Evaluating Agentic AI Applications: Frameworks and Methodologies' 馃搷Worked on understanding the Landscape of Voice Agents GTM Strategy Intern \- Cloud and AI at Google, Apr 2024 \- May 2024 路 2 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, 馃搷Devised an end\-to\-end GTM Strategy for Google Cloud, 5\+ SMB priority sectors with each sector size of $1\.5B\+ 馃搷Analysed sector鈥檚 landscape, business trends, competitors & market solutions, worked on industry associations 馃搷Developed sector\-specific strategies & assets, driving cloud adoption initiatives, accelerating client acquisitions Chatbot Developer \- Conversational AI at Leena AI, Aug 2022 \- May 2023 路 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Forbes says, "Leena is like Siri for employees" and I was there being a part of its making\. 馃搷Project 1: Developed a chatbot for one of the Top 3 companies of Management Consulting Objective: To automate the internal IT and HR helpdesk for employees using a WebClient view for a number of use cases Result: Successfully delivered the bot with an accuracy of over 91%, 70% automatic query resolution 2 Man years of HR effort saved and 60% monthly active users\. 馃搷Project 2: Developed a chatbot for an airline company Objective: To automate the internal HR helpdesk for employees using a WebClient view for a number of use cases Result: Successfully delivered the bot with an accuracy of over 90% ML Engineer \- Conversational AI at Searce Inc, Aug 2021 \- Aug 2022 路 1 yr 1 mo, \-\-\-\- Worked as a part of the Applied AI team, to build and provide solutions using Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for clients across the globe\. \-\-\-\- Worked end\-to\-end from Pre\-Sales, Solution Architecture to Delivery\. \-\-\-\- Handling the responsibilities of being a Cloud Administrator \(AWS\) and working with cloud services such as GCP and AWS to build, deploy, and serve the solutions\. 馃搷Project 1: Developing a Chatbot for a product of Searce Inc\. \- happierWork to assist the new joiners in getting familiar with the organization\. \(Led the team for the development of the bot\) 馃搷Project 2: Data Lake \+ Applied AI/ ML \-\- Use case 1: Objective: Identifying instances of multiple applications submitted using the same photograph but under different names Result: Achieved a photo deduplication match percentage of 97\.8% in a span of 5 days Cloud services/Libraries and Models used: OpenCV, FaceNet Model \-\- Use case 2: Objective: Stream processing of UPI transactions to detect potentially fraudulent/high\-risk transactions Result: Built a serverless streaming pipeline with data lookup and real\-time scoring with a hosted custom XGBoost on Vertex AI within a week's time 馃搷Project 3: Developing a Chatbot on AWS Objective: To implement a chatbot that fetches responses from the Database using the Lambda Function Result: Successfully implemented within 2 days \(Time inclusive of reading\-up on the problem statement and solving it\) 馃搷Project 4: Building a full\-fledged Chatbot for an Airline Objective: To automate most of the help\-desk questions and FAQs Result: Successful integration of Dialogflow using Webhook for APIs 馃搷Project 5: Developing an end\-to\-end CCAI solution Objective: To automate the internal IT helpdesk for employees using a Telephony bot for a number of use cases Result: Successful integration of Dialogflow using Webhook for APIs with Avaya with an STT Accuracy of 77\.5% and a Functional Accuracy of 86\.84210526%\. Google Cloud Consultant at Searce Inc, Jun 2021 \- Aug 2021 路 3 mos, Closed a Corp account for Google Cloud Migration Services, worked on creating the SOW, presales, and solution architecture ## Education Master of Business Administration, Post Graduate Programme in Management, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Bachelor of Engineering, ENGINEERING, National Institute of Technology Surat [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/mahima-shirshetty) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/mahima-shirshetty#person", "name": "Mahima Shirshetty", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/mahima-shirshetty", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/mahima-shirshetty/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet Mahima Shirshetty, Product x AI @ NetApp | Ex-Google | IIM Bangalore | NIT Surat based in Bengaluru. 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