Headline

Driving Products and Services using AI and Digital Technologies

About

AI product leader with 15+ years’ experience in AI, GenAI, Analytics, data, and enterprise product management. Deep experience taking AI from ambiguous business problems to enterprise-scale deployment across manufacturing, retail, and SaaS – including LLM powered conversational Analytics products. Proven at owning the full arc: identifying the opportunity, building the business case, leading cross-functional delivery, and driving adoption at scale. Now focused on the agentic AI frontier — designing systems that move enterprises beyond insights to autonomous, governed execution leveraging GenAI tools

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Principal Product Manager - Conversational Analytics at Simpplr, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Led 0-1 Analytics engine Launch across Simpplr's 700-client SaaS platform — establishing the product's first automated, AI-driven insights layer and executive KPI reporting framework • Architected a trust-first GENAI powered conversational analytics layer using NLQ — owning widget-level invocation architecture, semantic layer enrichment with synonym and business-term mapping, a structured evaluation framework, and output validation guardrails to prevent hallucination

Sr. Product Manager - AI and Data platform at Target, Aug 2022 - Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, • In-store Theft Detection Platform and investigation platform to combat retail Shrink ◦ Built an end-to-end AI pipeline for in-store theft detection — ingesting multi-source signals, applying ML prioritization models and autonomously routing actionable cases to investigation teams • Vision Data Platform – An Enterprise Data Management and image annotation platform ◦ Designed and shipped a 0-1 enterprise data management and annotation platform supporting 10 cross functional teams- 3.2 million images ingested, .5 million annotated

Sr. Product Manager, AI products at Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, Apr 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, As a Product manager for AI and digital products, I am always on the lookout for Identifying new offerings and to productize our solutions to meet the needs of several industries. My aim is to leverage the power of cloud and data to build scalable products and solutions to solve customer problems I am also responsible for growth of AI products and services and handle a portfolio of products Some of the product I have built from 0-1 • CV based Face mask detection • An AI driven platform to automate handling of email enquiries for customer service centers • Computer vision-based Quality inspection platform to automate quality inspections of high precision equipment manufacturers for the semiconductor and healthcare domains

Product Manager - AI at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), Jan 2016 - Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Mfg. Analytics Platform: B2B Platform for Discrete Manufacturing Orgs. · Led 0-to-1 build and global rollout across 500+ manufacturing lines — generating 3 million Euro ARR with 70% daily activation and 80%+ customer retention. · Shipped AI features such as root-cause analysis, productivity benchmarking and self-service analysis. • Smart Warranty Analyzer · Defined visualization wireframes for value discovery using vehicle diagnostics and warranty data. · Delivered data driven insights on the high-risk warranty issue occurrences with timely alerts in newly launched vehicles using prediction algorithms. · 7% reduction in warranty costs (~1 mil Eur) through early identification of critical vehicle issues • I-Discover: B2B vendor recommendation platform for Indirect purchasing · Shipped out product-based recommendations of vendors. · Led to consolidation of savings of 10mil USD through selection of the right vendors.

AI Business Consultant at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs, Stuttgart, • Consulted Business heads across several Bosch business verticals on AI and digital transformation strategy . • Led the largest digital transformation and consulting initiative at Bosch with identification of · 15 AI projects valued at 25 million in impact · A comprehensive Data strategy roadmap for a Unified data lake to run AI initiatives · An AI playbook and governance frameworks to help the client execute new strategies efficiently. • Defined AI go-to-market strategy across Bosch business units — identifying high-value use cases, building ROI-backed business cases, and creating internal demand for AI adoption • Delivered 22 AI projects driving USD 50 million in impact and 10 million USD in revenue through cost savings and faster GTM — across manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain verticals • Convert 5 successful projects into products to drive large-scale organization wide impact

Product Engineer at Bosch Global Software Technologies, Oct 2005 - Jun 2011 · 5 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Responsible for the design and development of E-Hooks – a prototyping product to non-intrusively build and test new vehicle features without going through the full cycle of embedded software development. (https://tinyurl.com/57a49ft7) • Defined the product feature roadmap and delivered milestone-based releases in a timebound manner. • The product reduced the software development time by 55% and was rolled out to OEMs such as BMW, Honda etc. • Supported product marketing initiatives using tech talks and product demos

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing and Strategy, Purdue University

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications, Vishweshvariah Technological University