Sai Charan Kummetha
Product Manager • Applied AI • Paytm • IIT Kharagpur
Bengaluru
5+ years of work experience
Feb 20267 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Working on applied AI use cases across multiple channels
Jul 20241 yr 8 mosFeb 2026
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Working at a hypergrowth startup gave me the opportunity to learn and execute at an exceptional pace. Built and scaled products across AI, marketplaces, supply chain intelligence, and financial workflows. Gained firsthand exposure to business strategy, finances, GTM, data analytics and user-centric product development.
Most importantly, I learned to navigate ambiguity by using data, customer insights, and cross-functional collaboration to build products that solved real business problems.
• Led 0→1 development of an AI voice platform handling 30k+ interactions per month, driving significant improvements in task completion and NPS through thoughtful system design, rapid experimentation, and iterative product development. Built AI platforms to accelerate experimentation and reduce manual effort significantly, positioning AI as a core layer across product and operations.
• Operated at the intersection of product and engineering - driving architecture, rapid prototyping, and execution in high-ambiguity, real-world environments.
Oct 20221 yr 9 mosJun 2024
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• At Vegrow, I progressed from an IC to leading an 8-member engineering team in under two years during the company’s 5× annual revenue growth. This phase significantly strengthened my software engineering fundamentals through building distributed systems in Golang, designing internal frameworks, architecting event-driven systems with Kafka, and scaling infrastructure to support hypergrowth.
• I led the development of inventory management and traceability platforms using Golang, Kafka, MongoDB, and QR-based microservices, digitizing supply-chain operations and enabling end-to-end tracking of perishable goods. I also built scalable authentication services, improved platform reliability and observability, and contributed to the Velens computer vision project by working on LiDAR and stereo-camera capture pipelines for high-precision depth estimation.
• Beyond technology, this was my first opportunity to lead engineers, learning team dynamics, execution, planning, and delivery while collaborating closely across functions. During this period, I was also invited to Google’s Foobar Challenge.
May 20211 yr 6 mosOct 2022
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Looking back, this role laid the foundation for my engineering career. I found myself spending all the time learning backend systems, databases, and scalable architectures- as I genuinely enjoyed it. I was excited to see technology solving real problems in the construction industry. Watching code I wrote in India power products used by customers across the world was one of the most rewarding parts of the journey.
• Built and scaled backend systems for a B2B AEC AI SaaS product serving Western and Southeast Asia markets using Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS
• Delivered end-to-end features from design to deployment, collaborating with product and engineering leadership and optimized core workflows using state machines, improving performance and scalability
• Designed event-driven notification systems (AWS, FCM, SES), improving communication reliability
Jan 20206 mosJun 2020
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
This role introduced me to the intersection of architecture, computation, and software. Working on BIM automation and generative design using genetic algorithms (before the rise of LLMs) gave me my first exposure to AI-driven problem solving. It also led me to make the conscious decision to transition into software engineering, believing that understanding how real world software systems are built is foundational to creating impactful technology products and eventually, a technology company.
Sai’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor’s(Honours)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
20212021
Board of Intermediate Education Telangana, Maths | Physics | Chemistry
Narayana Institute
20142 yrs2016
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