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Sai Sashank Kuppa

Building with AI | BITS Pilani

Bengaluru

4+ years of work experience

Career Break
May 20264 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Preparing for a transition to an "backward-deployed PM" kinda role. If that's who you're hiring for: hit me up! Github here: https://github.com/kupsas - Built a personal finance intelligence tool (beta with first 10 users): https://www.kupsas.com/arth - Built an MCP for football data (GTM planning ongoing): https://www.kupsas.com/football-data-mcp - Delivered a Cursor workshop with a webpage built with Cursor: https://www.kupsas.com/learn-cursor
Mave
Aug 20259 mosApr 2026

Bengaluru

- Led 0→1 launch of a consumer neurostimulation app + Bluetooth device, shipping to 15 beta users within 2.5 months. - Owned end-to-end delivery across engineering, design, and ops; set up agile rituals, and hired 2 key roles - Designed the KPI tree + behavioral assessments and analyzed 80+ interviews & reports to build a roadmap. - Built lifecycle comms systems (PNs+CRM) + brought in 10+ orders on launch day via outreach to 2–3K prospects
Career Break
May 20253 mosJul 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka

It wasn't technically a "career break". I was pretty active with my career: - I learnt coding with AI. I felt this was one of the highest impact activities I could do to enable me to be a founder in the future. - I built (and will continue building) personal AI tools - a resume reviewer, a simple personal financial intelligence platform, a tool to search people on LinkedIn better, something to help my mom learn English better, etc. - Worked as a freelancer for a few friends to understand how THAT mode of working goes + to generate cash flow. T'was fun.
Tide
Mar 20241 yr 2 mosApr 2025

Remote

I was the sole product manager + analyst in the newly formed "experience foundations" team whose responisibility was to manage the fundamental building blocks of experience. We owned the information architecture of the app / website, the communication systems, and the design systems. - Delivered app information architecture projects that drove £1.4M ARR and boosted day-7 retention by 47% rel. - Enhanced delivery mechanisms of in-app comms boosting CTR by 10pp and reducing CRM delivery time by 14 days. - Worked with design and research to identify/validate problems and solutions and with engineering to deliver experiences. - Led product strategy sessions with senior leadership aligning vision and establishing a 5Q roadmap. - Designed agile practices for improving team ways of working (how do we document? how do we do retros? how do we move from idea > validation > delivery?)
Tide
Jan 20243 mosMar 2024

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

- Provided pricing/cohort analyses(with business teams) for a product rebrand leading to inc. revenue of £107K. - Validated benefits of multiple features - dark mode, improved translation infrastructure, and SDUI with data. - SME for metric design, experimentation (infra and design), and event tracking saving over £50K in 2 years. - Ran pricing / cannibalisation analyses for de-risking the proposal of a new subscription bundle (which was eventually not launched because of the impact of cannibalisation - Performed the role of a strategic partner to multiple teams / products over the years, ran multiple experiements, and advised on the right metrics to measure in the pursuit of team goals
Tide
Sep 20221 yr 5 mosJan 2024

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

MentorPlus
Jul 20211 yr 1 moJul 2022

After setting up and running a peer-to-peer mentorship body during my undergrad, I uncovered that one of the major reasons engineering grads do not reach their potential is that they miss on getting the right career guidance in their freshmen or sophomore years. In the pre-LLM era, tried solving it at scale by building a Reddit-like platform to deliver career mentorship and incentivizing folks through crypto. Realized that tokenomics / cryptonomics is not mature enough yet to handle social media platforms. This is a really diluted summary of what we did/have done as founders in MentorPlus. I'd be happy to speak in depth over chat. - Created a user waitlist of 1K+ users (300+ mentors and 700+ users) and received soft commits for 3 college pilots. - Built two prototypes (Web2 and Web3 with tokenomics) after calls with 400+ students and 10+ college administrations. - Raised an angel round (valued at $250K) and managed 15+ people (generalists, techies, designers) including interns.

Sai’s AI Stack

codex
codex
cursor
cursor

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

20164 yrs2020

Classes 11th and 12th, Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Chemistry

FIITJEE Visakhapatnam

20142 yrs2016

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Headline

Building with AI | BITS Pilani

About

I love working with algorithms. I love working in technical spaces. I love solving hard problems. Domain-agnostic. I've worked in fintech, career-tech, and neurotech companies. I've worked in both seed-stage, and unicorn startups. I've worked on my own company and I've worked for others. I wanted to be a founder and started by trying to understand how products are built; and how they are sold. I spent the last six years building products and analysing their performance. Then AI came in, and my life has completely changed. I was a product manager before, and I am now something different: a hybrid mix between a software developer, product manager, and go-to marketer. I can be found at hello@kupsas.com. Feel free to reach out to me in person or through LinkedIn. Bonus if you're a Manchester United fan.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

codex

cursor

Work experience

Professional development at Career Break, May 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Preparing for a transition to an "backward-deployed PM" kinda role. If that's who you're hiring for: hit me up! Github here: https://github.com/kupsas - Built a personal finance intelligence tool (beta with first 10 users): https://www.kupsas.com/arth - Built an MCP for football data (GTM planning ongoing): https://www.kupsas.com/football-data-mcp - Delivered a Cursor workshop with a webpage built with Cursor: https://www.kupsas.com/learn-cursor

Founding Product Manager at Mave, Aug 2025 - Apr 2026 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, - Led 0→1 launch of a consumer neurostimulation app + Bluetooth device, shipping to 15 beta users within 2.5 months. - Owned end-to-end delivery across engineering, design, and ops; set up agile rituals, and hired 2 key roles - Designed the KPI tree + behavioral assessments and analyzed 80+ interviews & reports to build a roadmap. - Built lifecycle comms systems (PNs+CRM) + brought in 10+ orders on launch day via outreach to 2–3K prospects

Professional development at Career Break, May 2025 - Jul 2025 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, It wasn't technically a "career break". I was pretty active with my career: - I learnt coding with AI. I felt this was one of the highest impact activities I could do to enable me to be a founder in the future. - I built (and will continue building) personal AI tools - a resume reviewer, a simple personal financial intelligence platform, a tool to search people on LinkedIn better, something to help my mom learn English better, etc. - Worked as a freelancer for a few friends to understand how THAT mode of working goes + to generate cash flow. T'was fun.

Product Manager at Tide, Mar 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Remote, I was the sole product manager + analyst in the newly formed "experience foundations" team whose responisibility was to manage the fundamental building blocks of experience. We owned the information architecture of the app / website, the communication systems, and the design systems. - Delivered app information architecture projects that drove £1.4M ARR and boosted day-7 retention by 47% rel. - Enhanced delivery mechanisms of in-app comms boosting CTR by 10pp and reducing CRM delivery time by 14 days. - Worked with design and research to identify/validate problems and solutions and with engineering to deliver experiences. - Led product strategy sessions with senior leadership aligning vision and establishing a 5Q roadmap. - Designed agile practices for improving team ways of working (how do we document? how do we do retros? how do we move from idea > validation > delivery?)

Senior Analyst at Tide, Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, - Provided pricing/cohort analyses(with business teams) for a product rebrand leading to inc. revenue of £107K. - Validated benefits of multiple features - dark mode, improved translation infrastructure, and SDUI with data. - SME for metric design, experimentation (infra and design), and event tracking saving over £50K in 2 years. - Ran pricing / cannibalisation analyses for de-risking the proposal of a new subscription bundle (which was eventually not launched because of the impact of cannibalisation - Performed the role of a strategic partner to multiple teams / products over the years, ran multiple experiements, and advised on the right metrics to measure in the pursuit of team goals

Product Analyst at Tide, Sep 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Co-Founder at MentorPlus, Jul 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, After setting up and running a peer-to-peer mentorship body during my undergrad, I uncovered that one of the major reasons engineering grads do not reach their potential is that they miss on getting the right career guidance in their freshmen or sophomore years. In the pre-LLM era, tried solving it at scale by building a Reddit-like platform to deliver career mentorship and incentivizing folks through crypto. Realized that tokenomics / cryptonomics is not mature enough yet to handle social media platforms. This is a really diluted summary of what we did/have done as founders in MentorPlus. I'd be happy to speak in depth over chat. - Created a user waitlist of 1K+ users (300+ mentors and 700+ users) and received soft commits for 3 college pilots. - Built two prototypes (Web2 and Web3 with tokenomics) after calls with 400+ students and 10+ college administrations. - Raised an angel round (valued at $250K) and managed 15+ people (generalists, techies, designers) including interns.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Classes 11th and 12th, Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Chemistry, FIITJEE Visakhapatnam