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# Prerak Dongaonkar on Tal

## Headline

Product & Platform Leader \| Product Strategy, Scale & Customer Outcomes

## About

I work at the intersection of product, enterprise customers, and revenue, helping bridge the gap between physics and experimental systems\. Currently, I am the Product Owner and Support Manager for SimSight, a Process Intelligence platform utilized by BioPharma Process and MSAT teams to combine physics\-based modeling with AI\-driven insights\. My focus is changing that paradigm\. Instead of optimizing solely for short\-term execution, I design: Clear Product Narratives: Empowering sales teams to drive repeatable revenue\. Scalable Workflows: Replacing bespoke, brittle integrations with robust systems\. Balanced Roadmaps: Weighing immediate customer urgency against long\-term architectural leverage\. In practice, this means owning product integrations, roadmap trade\-offs, and managing a six\-figure annual revenue footprint during high\-risk phases all, while actively building the systems to make myself less central over time\. Outside of work, you will find me training for CrossFit & Hyrox, playing pickleball, and actively engaging with other product leaders who care about leverage, clarity, and building lasting impact\.

## Location

Pune Division

## AI stack

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Product Owner & Product Support Manager at Tridiagonal Software Inc\., Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Product & Platform Leadership \- Led end\-to\-end product integration and platform initiatives, owning workflows, data models, and roadmap prioritization across multiple capabilities\. \- Balanced customer requirements with long\-term scalability and technical debt, preventing bespoke commitments from eroding product leverage\. \- Partnered with engineering, design, and application teams to improve UI/UX and core workflows, reducing adoption friction and delivery effort\. Revenue, Customer Lifecycle & Risk Ownership \- Primary escalation owner for enterprise and mid\-market accounts across onboarding, integration, and renewal\-critical phases, covering a six\-figure annual revenue footprint\. \- Managed customer lifecycle risk by translating complex product behavior into clear, outcome\-oriented communication\. \- Proactively identified delivery and adoption risks to minimize churn, renewal delays, and post\-sales overhead\. Go\-To\-Market & Product Positioning \- Supported go\-to\-market execution, including qualified demos, ICP assessment, and product positioning during early platform expansion\. \- Identified structural risk where revenue depended on PM presence and drove movement toward repeatable sales narratives and standardized discovery\. \- Collaborated with sales and marketing to align product capabilities with market needs\. Team Leadership & Capability Development \- Coached Application Engineering teams on technical depth, customer communication, and ownership boundaries\. \- Built processes, documentation, and decision frameworks to reduce single points of failure and improve operational scalability\. Platform Readiness & Delivery Quality \- Provided architectural guidance and delivery oversight for customer\-facing applications and integrations\. \- Improved release readiness, deployment stability, and production quality, reducing downstream support and delivery risk\.

Member at AI Guild, Aug 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

Lead Data Scientist at Tridiagonal Software Inc\., Apr 2022 \- Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Senior Data Scientist at Tridiagonal Software Inc\., May 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 1 yr, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Some of the things I work on: \- Developing Interactive Dashboards/ standalone web apps for no code advanced analytics using \#python \#ipywidgets \#ipyvuetify \#plotly \#matplotlib \#voila \#HTML5 \#CSS \- I am a Core member of SimSight \(Flagship Software Product\) Development team\. \- Developing \#postprocessing capabilities in Jupyter Notebooks from CFD software \- Developing Reduced\-Order Models Interpolation solutions for near\-instantaneous visual results for Digital Twin Assets \- AI for Computational Fluid Dynamics: Testing and validating \#AI model results for Bioreactors in partnership with byteLAKE

Mechanical Engineering Intern \- Process Analytics at Tridiagonal Solutions, Mar 2020 \- Sep 2020 · 7 mos, San Antonio, Texas, Tridiagonal Solutions is a consulting house, providing solutions to the process industry leveraging advanced modeling, workflow automation and process data analytics techniques to provide solutions\. My responsibilities: \-Performed data cleaning & validation, analysis and modeling of structured and unstructured data from Oil and Gas, Process and Pharmaceutical industries\. \-Used PCA for prediction of event detection and setting control limits for normal operation of pressure vessels\. Developed one dimensional monitoring model using dimensionality reduction\. \-Developed ML models for prediction with 90% accuracy using Linear Regression, PLS and Interpolation of CFD simulation data reducing resource cost and time required for first principle analyses\. \-Created interactive standalone webapps using voila in Jupyter for real time monitoring of process data from plant\. Developed Power BI dashboards and used python scripts for dynamic visualizations\. \-Collaborated with SMEs to compile technical resource handbook using Quality by Design principles\. \-Completed Seeq training courses\. Developed predictive maintenance model of equipment and golden batch determination use case examples in Seeq\.

Quality Engineer at Made To Measure, Aug 2018 \- Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos, East Dundee, Made To Measure is a quality inspection laboratory for metrology located in the heart of East Dundee, IL\. My responsibilities: \-Examined engineering drawings \(blueprints\) to inspect various parts including Automotive, Aerospace, Medical parts\. Interpreted GD&T to inspect conforming to ASME and ISO standards\. \-Created MODUS, Micro\-Vu programs, while using manual measurement tools to complete inspection on assemblies and parts\. Completed large scale inspection of over 25000 parts at once\. \-Performed Statistical Process Control \(SPC\) and created capability study reports, exercising mathematical concepts to understand, interpret underlying statics and convey the results to the customer\. \-Experience with FAI and Cpk dimensional analysis and reports for external vendors\. \-Reverse engineering parts, generating 3D CAD models in SolidWorks & detailed 2D blueprints\.

Application Engineering Intern at Schneider Electric, Jun 2017 \- Aug 2017 · 3 mos, Carlsbad, California, \- Optimized Mathematica code to visualize 3D objects from a data set of coordinates\. \-Achieved 40% optimization of simulator performance with graphical observations in Mathematica\. \-Reverse engineered turbine and valve trim to match simulated and real time data to 90% accuracy\. \- Documented tag names to cross reference operator data from power plants, conducted quality control analysis in Dynsim\. Gained hands on experience in SimCentral and Dynsim\.

## Education

Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Ira A\. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Mechanical Engineering, Manipal institute of technology

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