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title: "Yaswanthram Ponnada - Product Manager - AI SaaS Products in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Yaswanthram Ponnada, Product Manager | Transforming Ideas into AI-Powered Products | SaaS, Retail, CRM, Data & Cloud | Storytelling based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and cursor."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/yaswanthram-ponnada/share-image"
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# Yaswanthram Ponnada on Tal

## Headline

Product Manager \| Transforming Ideas into AI\-Powered Products \| SaaS, Retail, CRM, Data & Cloud \| Storytelling

## About

I build AI products that hold up beyond the demo\. Product manager with 4\+ years of experience, leading an AI SaaS portfolio end to end — strategy, roadmap, and the prioritization calls that determine whether a product wins or stalls\. When the technology can do almost anything, the discipline is knowing what's genuinely worth building\. Product management is my craft\. Discovery, positioning, roadmap trade\-offs, and execution under real constraints — I've done the work often enough to move fast without breaking judgment\. What sharpens it is deep technical range across artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, software engineering, and data engineering: I assess feasibility in the room, write specs teams execute against without translation, and keep roadmaps anchored to what actually scales\. Previously I built after\-sales products in the automotive retail space, operating at the intersection of engineering and business\. I value short feedback loops, clear priorities, and problems customers will pay to have solved\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

elevenlabs

gemini

github copilot

## Work experience

Product Manager \- AI SaaS Products at Skypoint, May 2026 \- Present · 4 mos

Consultant at Mercedes\-Benz Research and Development India, Dec 2022 \- May 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos, India

Graduate Engineer Trainee at Mercedes\-Benz Research and Development India, Aug 2022 \- Dec 2022 · 5 mos, India

Intern at Mercedes\-Benz Research and Development India, Apr 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 4 mos, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

## Profile highlights

The best product I’ve worked on…: Shipped skyNote across web, iOS, and Android; scaled to 2,000\+ customers across 18\+ US operators within 3 months and grew it into a $1M product line

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