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title: "Sudhanshu Shekhar - Staff Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sudhanshu Shekhar, AI, Consumer & Fintech | 0→1 Founder (YC ’23) | Staff PM @ Ethos | Ex-Cheq, Zeta, iSPIRT based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes aistudio, claude code, and gemini."
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# Sudhanshu Shekhar on Tal

## Headline

AI, Consumer & Fintech \| 0→1 Founder \(YC ’23\) \| Staff PM @ Ethos \| Ex\-Cheq, Zeta, iSPIRT

## About

I use LinkedIn to gather customer insights and share my observations/ notes\. Critical thinking, business strategy, and product management are recurrent themes, I write about\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

aistudio

claude code

gemini

openclaw

## Work experience

Staff Product Manager at Ethos, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 y 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, On the side : Building PMFast, an AI coach that runs your mock interviews and prepares you for PM interviews\. If you are a PM earning 20L\+ looking to switch your job in the next 3 months, and willing to put in 4\-5 hours of training time per week , reach out\. I have only 5 slots available\.

Co\-Founder & CEO at CheqUPI \(YC S23\), Jul 2021 \- Oct 2025 · 4 y 3 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, The Cheq app helps international citizens use UPI services via a prepaid wallet\. We accept most international visa and mastercards

Fellow at ProductNation/iSPIRT, Nov 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, \- Helped improve UPI \(Autopay, E\-vouchers\) by working with varied stakeholders across the industry\. \- Was working on building alternative business models for UPI \(network of networks strategy\)\. \- Helped write the OCEN technical specification specs \- Contributed to DPGA as one of the iSPIRT representatives \- Small contribution to Healthstack, Livestock stack and other Ispirt Initiatives\.

Product Manager at Zeta India, Jun 2019 \- Dec 2019 · 7 mos, Bangalore, Worked on the Zeta core platform\. Contributed to creation of multiple products targetted towards the fintech industry: \* Cipher: Zeta's next generation ACS solution \* Fusion: Neobanking as a service \[for fintech startups\] \* Tachiyon: Platform which enables banks to provide fusion & other financial products to startups\.

Associate Product Manager at Zeta India, Oct 2017 \- Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Software Engineer at Headout, Mar 2017 \- Oct 2017 · 8 mos, Bangalore, Working as a full stack dev\. Till date projects include: \- Writing a unified user management system capable of supporting multiple user profiles, authentication backends and permissions system\. Migrating older users to the newer flow\. \- Rewriting our payment processing pipeline to support multiple payment gateways \(stripe/checkout\.com\) \- Building inventory and booking api integrations with software providers of attractions & museums in Amsterdam \(PrioTicket\) & Dubai \(DTCM\)\.

## Education

Y Combinator

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Computer Software Engineering, IIIT Hyderabad

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