Turning complex workflows into high-impact products.
I am an Aspiring Product Manager with end-to-end 0-to-1 experience. Conceived, designed, and shipped 5+ production SaaS products across PropTech, workforce operations, and partner distribution ecosystems.
Obsessed with customer discovery, rapid hypothesis testing, intuitive UX, and measurable business outcomes.
Professional Work Experience
2+ years building and shipping B2B SaaS, CRM automation, and customer experience platforms. Bridging engineering depth with outcome-driven product leadership.
Frontend Developer & Product Contributor
@ Automate Business
- Automate CRM: Built lead management, pipeline dashboards, and customer tracking; implemented real-time data sync reducing manual follow-up time by ~30% for sales teams.
- Automate Task: Developed task-delegation and workflow-tracking modules — shipped 4+ productivity features improving cross-team coordination visibility across 3 departments.
- Automate Chats: Engineered trigger-action automation engine, chatbot workflow builder, and API integrations; improved setup UX reducing non-technical user onboarding time by ~40%.
- Architecture Migration: Led FlutterFlow → React.js transition across 2 products, eliminating technical debt and improving developer velocity by ~35% to enable scalable feature delivery.
- FinTech & Analytics: Built wallet systems, transaction flows, and analytics dashboards; delivered client-facing support deepening direct empathy for end-user pain points.
- Product & UX Bridge: Participated in product discussions, feature prioritization, and UX reviews — consistently bridging engineering execution with product thinking.
Education & Credentials
MBA (Online) — Business Administration
Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)
Deepening business strategy, operational economics, market positioning, and financial modeling to augment 0-to-1 product builder instincts.
B.Tech — Computer Science & Engineering
Lovely Professional University (LPU)
Rigorous grounding in data structures, algorithms, relational database design, software engineering lifecycle, and modern web application architecture.
In-Depth Product Case Studies
Deep dives into problem identification, user research, feature prioritization, architecture trade-offs, and measurable North Star outcomes.
RentAwas
End-to-end property, digital lease, automated rent collection & AI tenant management platform.
In India and emerging urban economies, over 80% of independent residential rentals and PG accommodations run on chaotic WhatsApp messages, paper notebooks, and unverified bank transfers. Landlords waste 15+ hours monthly reconciling rent payments, fielding informal maintenance complaints, and managing disputes over security deposits.
"If we automate rent invoicing with native UPI deep-links 3 days before due date, late payment rates will drop by over 35%, and landlords will happily migrate their offline registers to RentAwas."
ANSH Tasks
1-Click daily task delegation, visual Kanban progress, and accountability for SMB teams.
Small business owners, retail managers, and agency heads assign critical daily tasks over WhatsApp groups. Messages quickly get buried beneath hundreds of casual chats, deadlines are forgotten, and there is zero audit trail of who completed what and when.
"Reducing task creation to a single input line + staff dropdown will achieve >85% daily staff adoption without onboarding manuals."
ANSH HR
Frictionless digital attendance, check-in logs, leave approvals, and employee records.
MSMEs and retail chains suffer from broken biometric hardware, attendance proxying, and paper register books. At month-end, accountants spend 3-5 days manually cross-referencing messy punch logs with leave notes to calculate payroll deductions.
"Replacing biometric machines with browser-based geofenced check-in cuts hardware costs to $0 and eliminates payroll calculation errors by >90%."
ANSH Visitor
QR-powered visitor entry, security scanner app, digital pre-invites, and entry analytics.
Offices, manufacturing facilities, and residential societies use paper registers at security gates. Visitors write personal phone numbers that anyone can see, creating severe privacy risks. Security guards struggle with illegible handwriting, and hosts are left unaware when guests arrive.
"Pre-generating a QR invitation link sent via WhatsApp eliminates 85% of gate wait time and guarantees 100% verified visitor records."
ANSH Forms
Instant form builder, landing page generator, and QR response collector.
Creating an attractive feedback, registration, or inquiry form usually requires stitching together Google Forms (ugly and impersonal) or Typeform (expensive, complex). Small businesses and event organizers cannot afford developers to build dedicated campaign landing pages.
"Auto-generating a branded landing page layout around form questions lifts response completion rates by >30% over standard Google Forms."
Core Competencies & PM Superpowers
The cross-functional capabilities I bring as an Aspiring Product Manager — from customer discovery and PRD writing to technical feasibility and growth loops.
0-to-1 Product Ideation
Uncovering latent pain points & shaping viable bets
Proven ability as an Aspiring Product Manager to identify operational voids in underserved markets (e.g., Indian MSMEs and independent rental housing) and translate ambiguity into crisp, high-leverage product bets.
Product Strategy & Prioritization
Ruthless focus on impact over feature bloat
Deep practitioner of outcome-driven roadmaps. Skilled in writing battle-tested PRDs, defining actionable acceptance criteria, and saying 'no' to non-critical complexity to protect speed.
UX Architecture & Prototyping
Frictionless journeys designed for cognitive ease
Designing for real human behavior, especially non-desk workers and busy operators. Eliminating clicks, optimizing visual hierarchy, and creating interfaces that require zero training.
Technical PM & System Design
Speaking engineering & bridging feasibility
Strong technical literacy allows for high-velocity collaboration with engineers, realistic sprint planning, intelligent database schema decisions, and anticipation of technical debt.
Growth, GTM & Distribution
Building viral and organic distribution flywheels
A product is only as good as its distribution. Built organic partner networks and virality hooks (QR codes, shareable receipts, bio links) to achieve sustainable, low-CAC growth.
Data-Informed Iteration
Closing the loop with qualitative & quantitative signals
Relentless focus on post-launch metrics. Monitoring drop-offs, conducting weekly user interviews, and iterating fast to turn lukewarm usage into sticky daily habits.
How I Build Products That Stick
A repeatable 4-phase mental model tested across 7+ production releases. Avoiding feature factories; maximizing user outcomes.
Fall in Love with the Problem
Never build until the pain is palpable
Conduct 15+ in-depth user interviews with ground-level operators. Uncover the real emotional and financial cost of the status quo. If users aren't hacking together makeshift solutions in Excel or WhatsApp, the problem isn't urgent enough.
Scope the Minimum Lovable Product (MLP)
Cut scope, not quality
Strip away non-essential features ruthlessly using MoSCoW prioritization. Identify the single 'magic moment' where the user gets their first dopamine hit of solved friction, and polish that single flow until it feels instant.
Ship with Technical Velocity
Tight sprints & zero bureaucracy
Bridge design and engineering with airtight PRDs, clean API contracts, and shared database models. Ship functional builds weekly to real test groups rather than polishing in isolation for months.
Measure, Listen & Double Down
Retention is the only real truth
Track North Star metrics and cohort retention. Watch user screen recordings, analyze where onboarding leaks occur, and iterate rapidly. When a feature moves the needle on user habit formation, double down.
An aspiring product manager who thinks in user outcomes, not just code.
I am an Aspiring Product Manager and builder driven by the friction people face in their everyday work. Having watched Indian MSMEs struggle with chaotic WhatsApp groups and independent landlords battle messy rent registers, I set out to build products that make complex operations feel effortless.
My background spans full-lifecycle product development: conducting user discovery interviews, writing PRDs, wireframing in Figma, designing relational schemas, writing API contracts, and instrumenting cohort retention analytics.
"Great products are not measured by the number of features shipped, but by the friction eliminated from the user's life."
My PM Principles:
- 1Fall in love with the user's problem, not your initial solution.
- 2Ruthless prioritization: Ship the minimum lovable product fast.
- 3Technical depth: Understanding systems makes a PM 10x more effective.
End-to-end product execution with founder-level agency.
Ready to drive product impact at ambitious, high-velocity teams.
What I Bring to Product Teams
Core qualities developed by building and shipping products from zero to one.
User Empathy First
Ground every decision in real customer conversations and behavioral data, not internal echo chambers.
Speed as a Habit
Rapid hypothesis validation. Moving from problem definition to functional prototype in days, not months.
Technical Literacy
Fluency in Next.js, APIs, database schemas, and system architecture to collaborate seamlessly with engineering.
Outcome-Driven Roadmaps
Prioritizing with RICE and MoSCoW. Measuring success by activation and retention rather than ticket velocity.
Distribution Thinking
Products need distribution loops built-in: referral mechanics, viral utilities, and channel partner ecosystems.
Extreme Ownership
Founder mindset. Doing whatever it takes across UX, copy, data, and edge cases to ensure the product succeeds.
Products Built & Shipped
Live products built and deployed. Explore their live builds or click into the case studies above.
End-to-end property, digital lease, automated rent collection & AI tenant management platform.
1-Click daily task delegation, visual Kanban progress, and accountability for SMB teams.
Frictionless digital attendance, check-in logs, leave approvals, and employee records.
QR-powered visitor entry, security scanner app, digital pre-invites, and entry analytics.
Instant form builder, landing page generator, and QR response collector.
My Product Philosophy & Journey
I believe the best product managers are builders at heart. They don't just write specs from an ivory tower — they talk directly to frustrated users, prototype interfaces, inspect database performance, and understand what it actually takes to bring an idea to life.
Starting ANSH Apps and RentAwas taught me that the hardest part of software isn't writing code — it's deciding what NOT to build. It's having the discipline to say no to 90% of ideas to make the core 10% unbeatably fast and intuitive.
Whether designing an automated rent ledger for landlords or a 1-click task delegator for retail teams, my focus is always the same: reduce cognitive load, cut operational friction, and deliver tangible ROI.
I am actively seeking opportunities as an Aspiring Product Manager, Associate Product Manager (APM), or Technical PM where I can bring this 0-to-1 execution velocity, user empathy, and product rigor to high-impact challenges.
If you value product managers who ship, measure, and obsess over user delight — let's build something remarkable together.
"Fall in love with the user's problem. Strip away everything non-essential. Ship, measure, and iterate relentlessly."
Rahul Raj
Aspiring Product Manager
Builder of RentAwas & ANSH Ecosystem
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