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Product Manager @ VectorShift (YC S23) | Built 0→1 Products Across AI & Enterprise Software

About

Product Manager at VectorShift (YC S23), building AI products for private equity and financial services teams. I got here sideways. I started as a software engineer, kept gravitating toward product decisions over pure implementation, and eventually became the company's first PM. I still think like an engineer, and I lean on it. I've shipped in React, Node, and Go, so when I scope something I understand both what it takes to build and what it costs. The work I'm proudest of is Verification, an AI system that checks claims, figures, and citations across large document sets. It turns a manual, slow, and inconsistent review process into something structured and scalable. Beyond that, I've worked across document intelligence, workflow automation, and core platform systems at VectorShift. Before VectorShift, at Infra.Market, I built Photon Studio, a visualization platform used across retail locations, owning it from early customer discovery through definition and real-world deployment. I gravitate toward problems that aren't fully defined yet, messy workflows, loosely scoped needs, and figure out how to turn them into systems that can actually run in production. That’s also where the “let me figure out how to build this” instinct comes from. In practice, I care about where work breaks inside businesses, where things are slow, manual, or inconsistent, and I focus on replacing that with systems that actually change how the work gets done.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Product Manager at VectorShift, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos, • Joined VectorShift as a Software Engineer and became the company’s first Product Manager through end-to-end ownership of product development, strategy, and delivery. • Own product direction, roadmap prioritization, and execution for the enterprise AI platform serving private equity and financial services teams. • Lead a portfolio of 3 new products and 10+ existing products across Workspace, Documents, Portals, and Interfaces. • Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, QA, and leadership to deliver high-impact product initiatives. • Partner with executives and stakeholders to define product strategy, align business objectives, and ensure successful product outcomes.

Software Engineer at VectorShift, Jul 2025 - Apr 2026 · 10 mos, • Built and launched Verification, an AI system that checks claims, figures, and citations across large document sets, cutting a manual review process from weeks to hours. • Flagged 1000+ issues across document sets that, if missed, carried multi-million-dollar impact. • Shipped 5 products in 10 months, including Verification and Projects, a unified workflow for creating, deploying, and monitoring AI agents, workflows, and interfaces. • Shaped Workspace, a centralized environment for managing deal documents, AI workflows, and analysis. • Helped shape VectorShift's design system, improving consistency and scalability across products.

SDE-1 at Infra.Market, Jul 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, • Owned Photon Studio end-to-end — from user research and product definition through development, rollout across 30+ stores in India, and customer demos. • Cut a process that took days and multiple iterations down to under 2 hours and 3 iterations, serving thousands of store users. • Contributed to Photon, a web and mobile platform used across stores to streamline operations and order management. • Worked on Rise, a dealer-facing commerce platform supporting catalog discovery, quote generation, and order placement. • Delivered across web, mobile, and visualization using React, React Native, Node.js, and Go.

Software Engineer Intern at Infra.Market, Dec 2023 - Jul 2024 · 8 mos, Built and deployed the first version of Photon Studio across initial Infra.Market stores.

Product Development Lead at THAL.E, May 2023 - Dec 2023 · 8 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Product Lead at THAL.E, a campus food-ordering and canteen-management startup that operated across 4 canteens at Christ University, Bangalore. • Shaped the product from concept through launch, owning planning, feature prioritization, and post-launch iteration with students and canteen operators. • Coordinated a 20+ member team across engineering, design, and operations. • Represented the company at fundraising events and startup competitions.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Vellore Institute of Technology

Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Bangalore

Public links

github: https://github.com/Thamanmuthappa

thamanmuthappamn.vercel.app: https://thamanmuthappamn.vercel.app/

medium: https://medium.com/@thamanmuthappa