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Yashwanth Kumar Kallepalli

Product Analyst | Darwinbox | Building AI Products | IIT Kharagpur

Visakhapatnam

2+ years of work experience

Darwinbox
Jul 20262 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Part of the Payroll-Product team.
Drippit
Jan 20258 mosAug 2025

Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

- Owned an AI-powered fashion-discovery app from requirement gathering through release, scaling it to ₹200K GMV/month with 50% retention and 40% of users spending >10 min/session (Google for Startups & EF '25 backed). - Defined 10+ core features (including a Tinder-style discovery flow), writing user stories, workflows, and wireframes, and prioritising the backlog across a cross-functional team from idea to launch. - Conducted user research across 1,000+ Gen Z users and 30+ brands, then pitched to VCs and domain experts to shape product strategy, roadmap, and GTM.
Shaurya, IIT Kharagpur
Jun 20241 yrMay 2025

Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Inter IIT Cultural Meet
Oct 20233 mosDec 2023

Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

- Ran operations for 27+ events at Inter IIT Cultural Meet 6.0 (appointed by the Dean of Student Affairs), under the Ministry of Culture guidelines. - Coordinated hospitality and logistics for 40+ judges and 7,000+ participants across cross-functional stakeholders.
Rajendra Prasad Hall of Residence
Sep 20239 mosMay 2024

Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

- Restructured budget allocation for a hall of 1,000+ residents via a centralised system, cutting expenditure by 25.6% YoY. - Reinvested the savings into player facilities, increasing participation by 38% and winning Silver in the 2023-24 General Championship.
Shaurya, IIT Kharagpur
Jun 20231 yrMay 2024

On-site

Yashwanth’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Geology

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

20214 yrs2025

10+2, Mathematics and Science

Sri Venkateswara Classes

20182 yrs2020

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Headline

Product Analyst | Darwinbox | Building AI Products | IIT Kharagpur

About

Most PMs can talk about AI. I spent 8 months in a founder's office building it. At Drippit, I helped build a Gen Z fashion-discovery app: AI-powered search plus a swipe-based UI that turned "I don't know what I want" into a purchase. Idea to live release, working shoulder-to-shoulder with design and engineering. Now I'm on the Product team at Darwinbox, one of Asia's largest HR-tech platforms, on Payroll: where "close enough" isn't an option, because every edge case is someone's salary. My path here wasn't linear. Applied Geology at IIT Kharagpur, juggling multiple PORs and initiatives until product became the obvious place to solve problems full-time. Two things I care about now: AI products that reach real users at scale, and fintech, where the hardest problems- trust, conversion, regulation are the ones worth solving. I dig into the numbers before the narrative. If you're building an AI or fintech product and want someone in product who'll get hands-on with the data, the design, and the release- hit me up with what you're building.

Location

Visakhapatnam

AI stack

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Work experience

Product Analyst at Darwinbox, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Part of the Payroll-Product team.

Founders Office - AI Product at Drippit, Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 · 8 mos, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, - Owned an AI-powered fashion-discovery app from requirement gathering through release, scaling it to ₹200K GMV/month with 50% retention and 40% of users spending >10 min/session (Google for Startups & EF '25 backed). - Defined 10+ core features (including a Tinder-style discovery flow), writing user stories, workflows, and wireframes, and prioritising the backlog across a cross-functional team from idea to launch. - Conducted user research across 1,000+ Gen Z users and 30+ brands, then pitched to VCs and domain experts to shape product strategy, roadmap, and GTM.

Steering Committee Member at Shaurya, IIT Kharagpur, Jun 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Head | Core Operations - Organising Committee at Inter IIT Cultural Meet, Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 · 3 mos, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, - Ran operations for 27+ events at Inter IIT Cultural Meet 6.0 (appointed by the Dean of Student Affairs), under the Ministry of Culture guidelines. - Coordinated hospitality and logistics for 40+ judges and 7,000+ participants across cross-functional stakeholders.

General Secretary Sports and Games at Rajendra Prasad Hall of Residence, Sep 2023 - May 2024 · 9 mos, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, - Restructured budget allocation for a hall of 1,000+ residents via a centralised system, cutting expenditure by 25.6% YoY. - Reinvested the savings into player facilities, increasing participation by 38% and winning Silver in the 2023-24 General Championship.

Founding Team Head | Publicity and Marketing at Shaurya, IIT Kharagpur, Jun 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr, On-site

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Geology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

10+2, Mathematics and Science, Sri Venkateswara Classes