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AI Product Management - Top 10 Finalist Microsoft Build AI Hackathon 2026 · Ex-Meta, Amazon, Walmart · 8x Patent Holder

About

I've spent my career building the foundational layer that everything else inherits — intelligent platforms that help people and organizations make better decisions at scale. Across Meta, Amazon, Walmart, and Paytm, that looked like: a Directed Work Platform for 2.1 million associates across 19 countries, a computer vision QC platform that moved Sam's Club's quality ranking 20 positions, and a routing platform for 100,000 gig workers that improved productivity 40% and compressed onboarding from 15 days to same-day. 8 AI/ML patents across computer vision, retail intelligence, and workforce orchestration. As GenAI hit its inflection point, I made a deliberate choice - step out of large-company product leadership and build AI-first products hands-on, under real-world constraints, with direct customer contact. Four products built. Three shipped to real users. Two with paying customers. The last one revealed the insight I'm now building on: 95% of enterprise AI shows no real return. Not because the model fails. The problem is nobody captures the judgment at the "human decides" points, or wraps it in governance an enterprise will trust to act. So AI assists, a human still does the work, and the ROI never shows up. That became SubstrateOS - the Company Brain. Governed, runnable Skills built from how a company actually operates, executed safely by AI agents, with humans approving the calls that matter. The gap between AI that answers and AI you'd let act. 🏆 Top 10 Finalist, Microsoft Build AI Hackathon 2026 - selected from 28,000+ registered teams. Presenting to judges, June 2026. Outside of work: Visiting Faculty at IIM Ranchi (Product Management and Applied AI), mentor to AI founders through NASSCOM DeepTech, and board trustee at Sewa International contributing to education and digital enablement initiatives. If you're working on enterprise AI, the governance and judgment layer, or building where AI needs to act not just answer - let's connect.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

Work experience

Co-founder & Product Builder at Independent Founder, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Deliberately transitioned into a hands-on founder–builder phase to focus on AI-native products grounded in real customer pain, owning the full loop from research and discovery to PMF validation and early GTM. 1) Building SubstrateOS - The company Brain. Governed AI that runs the work of your company, not just answers questions. We capture how a company actually operates into executable Skills that AI agents run safely, with human approval on the calls that matter. The gap between AI that answers and AI you'd let act. 🏆 Top 10 Finalist, Microsoft Build AI Hackathon 2026 (28,000+ teams). Product Video: https://youtu.be/grtfnmn_-wY 2) RFPropel: Enterprise RFP Automation Platform - Interviewed founders and bid managers at SMBs (<500 employees) to identify proposal turnaround and win-rate pain points. - Used JTBD to model proposal authoring, review, and compliance as distinct jobs; built an AI-first, agentic workflow. - In beta with customers; positioned as a growth-critical GTM utility. 3) Arth / ArthPlus: GenAI Wealth Companion - Conducted 100–150 user interviews across Tier 1–3 cities (DIY investors, no-advisor users) to uncover unmet financial guidance needs. - Applied JTBD to define core jobs around portfolio clarity, risk comfort, and life-stage alignment; built and iterated a GenAI wealth companion. - Validated PMF through pilots (~50 users);

Mentor, Product Management, Nasscom at nasscom, Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Part of Nasscom DeepTech Club. Mentoring Product Leaders and founders from various start-ups.

Visiting Faculty, Product Management at Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi, Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Teaching Product Management for second year MBA students at IIM, Ranchi.

CPO, Field Agents Experience & Supply Chain/Logistics at Paytm, Mar 2023 - Nov 2023 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Scope: Owned Field Service and Supply Chain platforms Impact: - Reduced merchant onboarding time from ~X days by 60% - Improved FSE productivity by 35% through geo-mapping, incentive visibility, and task optimization. - Improved operational efficiency by ~30% via workflow automation. - Identified and reduced inventory losses by ₹XXX Cr+ through real-time asset visibility and lifecycle controls.

Education

Master of Engineering - MEng, VJTI, MUMBAI

B.Tech, National institute of technology Calicut