Headline

Launched Tech and Consumer Products 0-1 | Microsoft | IIM Calcutta

About

Product leader with 7+ years of experience building and scaling consumer and platform products across AI, search, and streaming domains. Also building AI agents on the side At Microsoft, I led AI-driven improvements to enterprise search, enhancing relevance and reducing latency for 250M+ users across Outlook, Edge, and Office. At Allen, I built a live class platform from the ground up, scaling it to 3L+ sessions/year and improving retention from 55% to 75% using AI platforms like attendance prediction, in-class insights and subjective evaluation model. Passionate about 0 -> 1 execution, data-led decision making, and crafting user-first experiences.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

Supabase

Vercel AI SDK

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Zluri, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos

Senior Product Manager at ALLEN Digital, May 2024 - May 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading Online Streaming & Assessment Platform to drive adoption, engagement and retention for a $500M revenue B2C EdTech unicorn 1. Improving Engagement & Retention - Increased weekly retention by 6% using Churn Prediction model with 87% accuracy to proactively engage with precise set of potential churn students - Increased engagement by 7% by building a vision based proctoring and attentiveness platform using MediaPipe and custom scoring logic for large scale online streaming. 2. 0-1 Platform Building - Spearheaded the development of Allen’s live class streaming platform 0 - 1 to support over 500k students annually - Built a Multimodal Homework evaluation platform that reads handwritten answers, parses diagrams, compares them with ideal solutions and generates improvement feedback for students.

Product Manager at ALLEN Digital, Apr 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Manager 2 at Microsoft, May 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 y 11 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Owned AI-driven search features for Outlook, Edge, and Office, improving relevance for 250M+ users - Drove 5x latency drop, 25% MAU growth on Edge, and launched dev tools like Embedded Search Box for B2B enterprises. - Led cross-org product planning, privacy compliance, and experimentation.

Program Manager Intern at Microsoft, Apr 2020 - May 2020 · 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Defined product requirements for crowdsourcing platform in enterprise search

Software Engineer at Barclays, Jun 2017 - May 2019 · 2 yrs, Kharadi Pune, Developed Customer Relationship Management tool for Barclays Investment Bank. Responsible for Release Planning and Infrastructure Management for the Banking Team Worked on AWS, Java, Python, Jenkins, Nolio, Chef and many other tools to maintain and build the application Nominated for Outstanding Graduate Award - Batch of 2017

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, COEP Technological University

Public links

github: https://github.com/shubham2901

shubhamgatkal.com: https://www.shubhamgatkal.com/