Product strategy
From customer discovery to a roadmap the business can commit to.
Customer and requirement discovery · BRDs and PRDs · Prioritisation and roadmap shaping · 0-to-1 product development
Head of Product · Technology Leader · Bengaluru, India
Product. Engineering. Applied AI.
Product and technology leader working across strategy, architecture, and applied AI — taking ideas from first experiment to enterprise-scale production.
- Years across technology and product
- 13+
- Production AI systems delivered
- 7+
- Proofs of concept and R&D
- 15+
- Leading product and engineering since
- 2019
Leadership that spans the whole stack.
13+ years across software delivery, technical training, data and AI consulting, and product leadership. Since 2019 I have led product and engineering for AI hiring systems: skills assessments, candidate screening, and conversational interviews.
Architecture
Direction for AI systems that have to survive production load.
Architecture direction · RAG pipelines and LLM orchestration · Agent-based automation · Cloud microservices on AWS
Enterprise delivery
Turning demos into rollouts, and rollouts into adoption.
Release planning · Requirement workshops and demos · Client-facing rollout · Escalation handling
Teams
Building the people and operating rhythm behind the product.
Helped build and scale the India operation · Team building and mentoring · Delivery governance · Cross-functional coordination
Production systems
Three systems, stacked.
All work01 / 03 · Evaluation● Production
Enterprise Skills Assessment Platform
Skills evaluation for enterprise hiring teams: coding and data-science tests, source-code verification, remote proctoring, and analytics across a 500+ skill library.
My role — Product and technology leadership — discovery, prioritisation, architecture direction, release planning, rollout.
Read the overview: Enterprise Skills Assessment Platform- 01Skill library
- 02Candidate attempt
- 03Proctoring signals
- 04Code verification
- 05Analytics
02 / 03 · Screening● Production
AI-Assisted Candidate Screening
A recruiter-facing assistant combining embedding search and LLM ranking for JD–CV matching, context-aware question generation, and structured candidate reports.
My role — Built the RAG-based assistant and deployed it with enterprise clients.
Read the overview: AI-Assisted Candidate Screening- 01Résumés + JD
- 02Parsing
- 03Embedding search
- 04LLM ranking
- 05Questions + report
03 / 03 · Interview● Production
Conversational Interviewing System
An agentic interview system running multi-turn conversations with dynamic follow-ups, live coding support, identity controls, and LLM-generated insights for reviewers.
My role — Architected the agentic interview flow and led productisation.
Read the overview: Conversational Interviewing System- 01Candidate answer
- 02Agentic interviewer
- 03Follow-up or code task
- 04Signals for review
- 05Reviewer insights
Every layer, one point of view.
The layers I design across, from product surface to platform.
01
Experience
Recruiter assistant · Assessments · Conversational interviews · Reporting
Product surfaces02
Orchestration
Agentic workflows · LLM orchestration · Multi-turn flows
LangChainAgents03
Intelligence
LLMs · NLP · Prompt engineering · Classification
OpenAI APIsHugging Face04
Retrieval & data
Embeddings · Vector search · Résumé parsing · Analytics
PostgreSQLSQL05
Platform
Microservices · REST APIs · Containers · Serverless
AWSDockerFourteen years in five moves.
2019 — Now
2019 — Now
Product & engineering leadership · Head of Product
Otomeyt AI · Bengaluru · Apr 2019 — Present
AI hiring technology. End-to-end product thinking with hands-on AI system design.
- Led productisation of AI across résumé parsing, NLP, video analytics, and code evaluation.
- Delivered 7+ production AI systems and 15+ proofs of concept, converting several into enterprise-scale features.
- Helped build and scale the India operation with leadership.
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
Big Data & AI Consultant
Paness IIHT · Cameroon · Jul 2017 — Oct 2018
AI/ML consulting: chatbots, data mining, and analytics-led business support for clients.
- Translated business requirements into implementable technical solutions.
- Trained junior analysts; supported client delivery.
2014 — 2017
2014 — 2017
Technical Manager
ASIT · Apr 2014 — Jul 2017
Helped initiate a software-development division and managed delivery of new initiatives.
- Defined design and functional scope for a job-portal product.
- Trained employees and freshers on current technologies.
2013 — 2014
2013 — 2014
Independent Developer & Trainer
Self-employed · Aug 2013 — Mar 2014
Built college-level software projects and trained students on development practices.
2012 — 2013
2012 — 2013
Technical Trainer
NIIT · Aug 2012 — Aug 2013
Technical training for freshers and working professionals.
Milestones.
01
PoC to production
Converted multiple proofs of concept into enterprise-scale features used in high-volume hiring workflows.
02
AI-native platform
Embedded agentic workflows and LLM decision layers across screening, assessments, and interviews.
03
Scaled an operation
Helped build and scale the India operation, partnering on product direction and execution priorities.
04
Started a division
Helped initiate a software-development division and delivered its first initiatives.
15+ proofs of concept.
Areas behind the proofs of concept. Several became production capabilities.
- Document AIProduction
Résumé intelligence
Structured extraction from unstructured résumés.
- RetrievalProduction
Semantic JD–CV matching
Embeddings and vector search over role and candidate context.
- LLMsProduction
LLM ranking and shortlist reasoning
Ranking candidates with explainable reasoning.
- GenerationProduction
Context-aware question generation
Technical questions grounded in the role and the candidate.
- GenerationProduction
Structured candidate reports
Recruiter-ready summaries from screening signals.
- VisionProduction
Video analytics for assessments
Proctoring signals that support human review.
- AgentsProduction
Agentic interview orchestration
Multi-turn flows with adaptive follow-ups.
- Speech + LLMsDeveloped
Written and spoken answer evaluation
Speech-to-text combined with LLM evaluation.
- VoiceResearch
Real-time voice turn latency
How turn-taking and latency shape a voice interview.
- Conversational AIClient delivery
Enterprise chatbots
Delivered for consulting clients, 2017–18.
- AnalyticsClient delivery
Data mining and decision support
Analytics-led business support for clients.
“Accuracy alone doesn’t drive adoption. Workflow fit does.”
Recent writing on LinkedIn
Let’s build what ships.
I’m open to conversations with founders, technology leaders, and teams building AI-native products.
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