Technical Product Leader

Building AI-Powered Products at Scale

35% Efficiency Gains$150M+ Impact12+ Years Experience

About Me

Entrepreneurial Product Leader

With over 12 years of experience driving innovation in consumer and enterprise software, I specialize in developing and implementing web and mobile applications with a solid technical foundation as a developer.

I excel at managing the product lifecycle of complex, scalable tech products, driving product growth and business results while bridging the gap between technology and market needs.

My expertise lies in using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to tackle business challenges, with proven experience across Fintech, Compliance, IT & Third-party Risk, E-commerce, Payments, Hospitality, and Education industries.

Key Differentiators

  • Technical foundation + Business acumen
  • Extensive ML/AI knowledge and implementation
  • Experience building products at scale
  • Proven track record of $150M+ business impact
  • Cross-functional leadership and strategy

ML & AI Expertise

Deep experience with LLMs, RAG, MCP protocols, and building ML models for production at scale.

Scalable Systems

Built products serving 100K+ users, managing $150M+ working capital, and processing millions of transactions.

Technical Foundation

Strong engineering background with hands-on experience in Python, React, SQL, and modern tech stacks.

Work Experience

12+ years of driving innovation and delivering measurable business impact

Senior Product Manager

Central1

Vancouver, Canada

Apr 2025 – Current
Impact

AML Automation

  • Leading the Autonomous AI team to develop anti-money laundering AI agents that generate alerts and perform due diligence on suspicious transactions or entities.
AIMachine LearningLLMsRAGMCPCompliance

Senior Product Manager

Zepz

Vancouver, Canada

June 2023 – Feb 2025
Impact

$150M Working Capital | 35% Efficiency | 60% Reduction in Outages

  • Spearheaded Treasury Engineering Team to tackle the $150M working capital challenge, developed a Machine learning forecasting engine for Volume and Cash forecasting, improving the funding efficiency by 35%.
  • Developed and executed a strategic roadmap to unify the payment experience across our brands, streamlining user journeys and leading to a 60% reduction in customer contact rates and a 40% enhancement in operational efficiency.
  • Launched the ledger service, which calculates real-time balances of more than 500 bank accounts managed by the organization with 98% accuracy, reducing the out-of-funds outages by 60%.
  • Launched an eFX service to provide competitive insights and better rates for our customers, reducing customer churn by 10%, improving Average Revenue per user by 6% and providing long-term profitability forecasts.
Machine LearningPythonReactSQLForecasting ModelsPayment Systems

Senior Product Manager Technical

Amazon

Vancouver, Canada

May 2022 - Mar 2023
Impact

$15M Developer Efficiency | $500M+ GMS | 35% Transaction Success

  • Launched the Backup payment method eligibility Machine Learning model to reduce chargebacks and customer contacts; resulting in an increase of 35% in the transaction success rate and 52% decline in customer contacts.
  • Led the Unify pay initiative to create a unified paying experience for Amazon customers across all 52 Amazon businesses, forecasting a cumulative gain of $15M from improved developer efficiency and reduced Payment method onboarding time; and also a GMS gain of more than $500M.
Machine LearningPythonJavaPayment SystemsClassification Models

Technical Product Manager

Diligent

Vancouver, Canada

Aug 2020 - May 2022
Impact

$4M Initiatives | 60% Time Reduction

  • Launched a machine learning assistant for compliance requirements to controls mapping; resulted in a 60% reduction in the time required to mitigate operational and enterprise risks by efficient control mapping.
  • Lead multiple strategic initiatives worth $4 million in the Machine Learning and IT risk management domain to provide efficient Governance, Risk and Compliance management for our enterprise customers.
Machine LearningLLMsRAGPythonEnterprise Software

Senior Product Manager

App-Scoop Technologies

Vancouver, Canada

Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Impact

Multi-Client Product Management

  • Managed product lifecycle for multiple client projects across various industries.
ReactPythonMobile Development

Product Manager App Store and Strategic Alliance

Posist Technologies

New Delhi, India

Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Impact

Strategic Alliances

  • Managed app store and strategic partnerships for restaurant management platform.
Product StrategyPartnerships

Founder and Head of Product

Navikaran Infotech Pvt. Ltd

New Delhi, India

Jun 2012 - Jan 2017
Impact

120K+ Users | 20% Admission Increase | 60% Efficiency

  • Managed product lifecycle of "Bookcrust", a school management system, used by 120,000+ parents and students.
  • Using chatbots, we increased school admission rates by 20%, reduced fee collection turnaround time by 60%, and decreased the time required to prepare a result from 3 days to 10 minutes by providing an offline sync cloud setup.
ChatbotsCloud InfrastructureWeb DevelopmentMobile Apps

Featured Projects

Deep-dive case studies showcasing ML/AI implementations, scalable systems, and measurable business impact

ML/AI Products

Anti-Money Laundering AI Agents

Central1

In Progress

Leading development of autonomous AI agents for AML compliance, generating alerts and performing due diligence on suspicious transactions.

Impact

AML Automation

LLMsRAGMCPPythonAI Agents
View Case Study
ML/AI Products

ML-Powered Treasury Forecasting Engine

Zepz

Developed a Machine Learning forecasting engine for Volume and Cash forecasting, addressing $150M working capital challenge.

Impact

35% Efficiency Improvement | $150M Working Capital

PythonMachine LearningTime Series ForecastingLSTMARIMA+2 more
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Payment Systems

Unified Payment Experience Platform

Zepz

Developed and executed strategic roadmap to unify payment experience across multiple brands, streamlining user journeys.

Impact

60% Contact Reduction | 40% Efficiency Gain

ReactPythonPayment APIsMachine LearningSystem Design
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Scale Products

Real-Time Ledger Service

Zepz

Launched ledger service calculating real-time balances for 500+ bank accounts with 98% accuracy.

Impact

98% Accuracy | 60% Outage Reduction

PythonDistributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitectureSQLMachine Learning
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ML/AI Products

Backup Payment Method Eligibility ML Model

Amazon

Launched ML model to reduce chargebacks and customer contacts by predicting optimal backup payment methods.

Impact

35% Success Rate | 52% Contact Reduction

PythonMachine LearningClassification ModelsXGBoostRandom Forest+1 more
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Payment Systems

Unify Pay Initiative

Amazon

Led initiative to create unified payment experience across all 52 Amazon businesses.

Impact

$15M Developer Efficiency | $500M+ GMS

System ArchitecturePayment SystemsAPIsMachine LearningJava+1 more
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Enterprise Solutions

ML-Powered Compliance Assistant

Diligent

Launched machine learning assistant for compliance requirements to controls mapping.

Impact

60% Time Reduction

LLMsRAGPythonNLPMachine Learning+1 more
View Case Study
Scale Products

Bookcrust School Management System

Navikaran Infotech

Managed product lifecycle of school management system used by 120,000+ parents and students.

Impact

120K+ Users | 20% Admission Increase | 60% Efficiency

ChatbotsNLPCloud InfrastructureWeb DevelopmentMobile Apps
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Technical Expertise

Comprehensive skill set spanning technical development, ML/AI, and product strategy

Programming Languages

PythonReactJSRSQLJava

ML & AI

LLMsRAGMCPForecasting ModelsClassification ModelsNLPTime Series

Tools & Platforms

QuicksightTableauPower BIModeJIRAConfluencePostmanFigmaSalesforce Agentforce

Product Management

RoadmappingStrategyGo-to-MarketAnalyticsA/B TestingUser Research

Industry Experience

FintechComplianceIT & Third-party RiskE-commercePaymentsHospitalityEducation

Education

Master's in Business Administration

UBC Sauder School of Business

Vancouver, BCDec 2019

Specialization: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, New Product Development and Business Strategy

Bachelor's in Engineering (Information Science)

R.V College of Engineering

Bangalore, India2012

Specialization: Web programming, Data Structure, OOPS, DBMS, Algorithms and UNIX systems

Get In Touch

Let's discuss how we can work together to build innovative products at scale

Contact Information

Location

Vancouver, Canada