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Founding Product Manager | sidjainn.github.io

About

Decade of experience in building tech products. Currently, as Founding Product Manager, I lead product at our Saas startup in the ai hiring space, channeling over a million candidates per month including for some of the largest employers in the country. I have a broad entrepreneurial skill-set, hands-on as a builder & passionate about the craft, skilled at navigating small teams build in a fast-paced, user-centric way. Previously, I was Senior Product Manager at Upgrad’s Harappa Education, focused on the B2B learning space. I have spent 5 years in Auroville working in software, design, community data projects, and educational initiatives for young adults while exploring Sri Aurobindo’s transformative integral yoga. I did a Machine Learning fellowship from Plaksha University and engineering from BITS Pilani. I enjoy working at both ends - bigger picture and the details. Endurance athlete, learning Hindustani vocals outside of work, love spending time outdoors and digital downtime.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

mcp

ollama

Wispr Flow

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Expertia AI, Apr 2023 - Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Product Manager at Harappa, Oct 2022 - Jan 2023 · 4 mos, Delhi, India, B2B Learning Product | Data | Scaling

Product Manager at Harappa, Aug 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Educational Consultant Intern at Plaksha, Apr 2021 - Jun 2021 · 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Did a research project engaging with 25+ diverse stakeholders & 100+ students; Identifying & Measuring the Learning Outcomes of the year-long post-grad AI-ML fellowship under the guidance of a founding member, came up with benchmark scores on the outcomes and recommendations for improvements by analyzing the performant and non-performant areas of the program.

Core team at Auroville Campus Initiative, Mar 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Auroville, India, - Envision Auroville as Nalanda of the future, a univers-city for soul-centric education of the mind, body, & heart. - Development of a platform enabling learners to self-design their learning journey from a diverse palette of programs, skills, learning labs, and mentors. - Core team member of a residential 5-weeks self-discovery program, Swadharma, for young adults. - Community building with the Swadharma alumni comprising of 100+ participants.

Software Developer at tālam, Auroville, Sep 2016 - Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo, Auroville, India, - Problem discovery, design, & development (full-stack self-taught) of 5 microservices for Auroville’s intranet for community engagement used by 3000+ members: Events calendar, Bazaar, Ridesharing, Proposals, & Aurostat. - Developed a modular commenting system that was deployed for use with 5+ microservices in Auronet. - Design & development of a web platform enabling learners to self-design their learning journey from a variety of programs, learning labs, and mentors. This served as a one-stop destination for all learning opportunities in Auroville.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Tech Leaders Fellowship, ML/AI and Leadership, Plaksha University

Public links

github: https://github.com/sidjainn

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@sids-pod-craft

sidjainn.github.io: https://sidjainn.github.io/