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Product Owner & Strategist. 18+ years across Insurtech and US Retirement, with hands-on work in Facial Expression Analysis and Precision Agritech.

I lead product for regulated financial platforms, and outside of that I build and ship AI tools solo. Nothing below is a claim you have to take on faith. Each one has a link, a number, or a name attached to it.

Evidence

Every portfolio makes claims. Here's what backs up mine.

01Ships working AI products, not just specs for themFitCheck and DharaPutra are both live in production, built and deployed solo, end to end.
02Builds his own AI infrastructure, not just consumer appsA local multi-agent setup built on four Ollama models behind a FastMCP bridge, plus a Groq-based fallback orchestrator for when usage limits hit.
03Has run product at enterprise, regulated scale18+ years across Hewitt Associates, Conduent, R Systems International, and CPP Assistance Services, spanning Insurtech, US Retirement, Facial Expression Analysis, and Precision Agritech.
04Has managed people, not just backlogsBuilt and led a 10-person team at R Systems. Managed a 7-person BA team at Conduent as Lead BA.
05Holds formal Product Owner credentialsA-CSPO and CSPO certified.
06Took AI seriously enough to study it full-timeAn 8-month self-directed break (Sep 2023 – Apr 2024) spent entirely on hands-on AI systems study, between R Systems and CPP.
07Doesn't put invented numbers on a pageEvery figure above is real. Ask about any of them, that's what the contact section is for.

Skills

What I've actually gotten good at, and where it came from.

Product Strategy & Backlog Ownership

18+ years

Own the backlog end to end and run it through Marketing, Sales, Customer Care, Finance, Engineering, and Security/Risk stakeholders, not just Engineering. A-CSPO and CSPO certified.

Hands-on AI/ML Prototyping

Since 2023

Build a working version of an AI feature before writing the spec for it. That's what produced FitCheck and DharaPutra, both shipped solo, and a local multi-agent Ollama setup running on my own machine.

Compliance-First Product Design

18+ years

Treat regulatory constraints as non-negotiable inputs to the spec, not an afterthought. FitCheck was built to DPDP 2023 requirements from day one: consent flow, data retention, cross-border disclosure. Not retrofitted later.

Team Leadership & Mentoring

7+ years

Built and led a 10-person product team from zero at R Systems. Managed and mentored a 7-person BA team at Conduent as Lead BA.

Spec-to-Verification Workflow

Since 2024

Write acceptance criteria as the actual verification layer, not documentation theatre, and build in a skeptical second pass before calling anything done. Same standard applies to my own CV: no fabricated metrics, ever.

Architecture Literacy

Since 2023

Know enough about the trade-offs to make a real architecture call, not just approve one. DharaPutra went through a full pivot from Flask/Redis/Render to Cloudflare Workers/KV once the edge-native version proved out faster and cheaper.

Let's talk, or look at the code.

Open to full-time Product Owner and Strategy roles, consulting engagements, and collaborating on early-stage ideas.