About
How I got here
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My dad ran a steel factory in India. As a kid, I watched workers push huge pieces of molten metal down the line by hand, in a process technology should have already changed. I wanted to be the one who rebuilt things like that for what's next.
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SRM University
2008–12
A B.Tech in Mechatronics Engineering — the engineering grounding for everything that came after.
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Accenture
2011–12
Built back-end web services for supply-chain customers. On that account, I watched the product manager push past what the client asked for, rebuilding how shoppers found what they needed in the store instead of just mapping their existing network. I wanted that job.
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University of Texas
2012–14
A master's in industrial engineering, to go deeper on how goods and demand actually move before I built products around them.
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MicroInfo
2014–15
Business analyst work: found $1.1M in supply-chain cost savings for clients using Tableau.
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Genentech
2015
Audited inventory data at a pharmaceutical company, correcting the records causing fulfillment breakdowns and improving reliability 13%.
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Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
2015–17
My title was project manager, but the work was product work: I ran requirements discovery with the people who'd use a new product lifecycle system, and got the whole organisation to adopt it.
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Elementum
2017–20
A supply-chain startup rethinking an industry still running on phone calls and spreadsheets. As a founding product manager, I built a scrappy prototype for automated anomaly detection and fallback ordering, and pitched it to the C-suite myself. It became our Product Availability suite, saving one enterprise client $8.1M and cutting unplanned stockouts 23%.
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Expedia Group, Product Manager
2020–21
Opaque hotel inventory only exists because algorithms can match hidden, excess rooms to real-time demand, something no travel agent could do by hand — this is where I started shipping AI-driven products myself. I built the acquisition and activation roadmap that doubled customer retention year over year.
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Expedia Group, Senior Product Manager
2021–22
Ran cohort analysis to find exactly where repeat engagement broke down, then built the tiered ranking, supplier feedback loop and loyalty program around it.
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Expedia Group, Lead Global Product Manager
2022–23
Took on a $4.3B+ multi-year growth strategy across hotels, flights and cruise, with ML-driven ranking and supply-optimization systems, and rebuilt cruise shopping's old brochure-and-travel-agent experience into something with real digital structure.
Flight: the recommended-flights view the ranking model feeds.
Cruise: the structured room-bundle content from the search and shop revamp.
Hotel: matching a shopper's choice to a better-priced equivalent. -
TikTok
2023–present
Video is replacing the search bar as how people discover what to buy, and the old trust signals don't carry over. I build the structure that lets shoppers trust what they find anyway: turning reviews into ranked, decision-useful signals with generative AI, in close partnership with ML engineers.
What I want to work on next
I want to keep building AI-powered consumer products where the PM works directly with ML and data science on model decisions: shopping, search, discovery and trust. The problems I'm drawn to are the ones where the evaluation is hard and the answer isn't obvious yet.
Open to Lead PM roles in AI-powered shopping, search and discovery, in the SF Bay Area or remote. US permanent resident. No visa sponsorship needed. Get in touch.
Now building
Remamour. An app and website to log memories quickly, and share them with family or time-release them to my child for later. Currently a limited release, built solo with Claude Code. Visit remamour.com.
Recognition
- Hotwire Hackday winner, for an app retention feature
- Elementum Hackday winner, for an inventory visibility app
- Elementum Spotlight Award for leadership in product management
- Ghirardelli Leadership Award, for building a product lifecycle management process and the software that ran cross-functional decision-making and communication on it
Outside work: Bay Area hikes, wellness and music.