Product manager · Fairfax, Virginia

Venkatesh Gardas

I turn messy operational work into software people open on a Monday morning.

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KPMG · risk analytics

40+ Decision Flows in Production

An AI risk platform for audit teams, owned end to end from requirements to rollout.

PitStop · live at a garage

A Real Shop Runs on This

Job cards, customer approvals and GST invoicing, working at a real counter every day.

Hey Saathi · live beta

A Companion That Speaks Malayalam

Voice-first AI for elderly parents, set up by family from another continent.

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Now

Building PitStop with a live garage, running the Saathi beta with real families, and looking for a product role.

Things I Am Buildingsoftware for real counters

PitStop

Building

Garage management for Indian workshops. Job cards, approvals by link, GST invoicing and UPI collection, live at a working garage and on its second UI.

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Hey Saathi

Live beta

A voice companion for elderly Indian users, now with a new name and a new face. Four languages, no login, and a setup a son can finish from another continent.

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Roko

Prototype

Home security hardware for the Indian market. An alarm panel, sensors and an app, priced for a family that has never bought a security system before.

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Resume Roast

Shipped

Paste a resume, pick a heat level, get it torn apart honestly. Mild if you want kindness, Savage if you want the truth. Built and shipped in a weekend, which is its own kind of scope lesson.

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By the numbers

Six years across data, fintech and product, three products of my own plus a weekend build, and one of them earning its keep at a real counter.

6years across product and data roles

3products built nights and weekends

40+risk decision flows live at KPMG

Where I Have Workedsix years, five companies

The arc

Five jobs, one direction. I started fixing other people’s code and ended up deciding what gets written.

Risk analytics

KPMG

Product Manager, AI risk analytics

I own the full lifecycle of an AI risk analytics platform: 40 plus automated risk decision flows, decision cycles down 16 percent, adoption at 90 percent.

What I do there Procurement

Expenzing

Product Owner, procure to pay and loan origination

B2B procurement for clients like Bajaj, HDB Hiranandani and Akasa Air. Rebuilt the budget module and built a loan origination system that shipped as a paid add-on.

What I did there

E-commerce

Purplle

Data Modeler

SQL pipelines, cohort models, price determination and catalog modeling for purplle.com. That work drove a 12 percent drop in churn and 15 percent growth in repeat orders.

ERP and logistics

Globe Trek Engineering

Business Analyst

Large ERP and logistics modules: pricing for manufactured products, requirement analysis, the website, and every piece of analysis in between. Delivery risk down 25 percent.

Support engineering

Compel Consultancy

Support software developer

JavaScript and Python, other people’s bugs, users on the phone while you fix them. The best possible school for a future product manager.

From Code to Productone deliberate staircase

Compel ConsultancySoftware support engineer

Globe Trek EngineeringBusiness analyst

PurplleData modeler

ExpenzingProduct owner

KPMGProduct manager

PitStop · Saathi · RokoFounder, nights and weekends

Each step was a deliberate trade: support to get closer to users, analysis to get closer to decisions, data to prove them, product to own them.

Education and Credentialsthree degrees, earned while shipping

Graduate school

George Mason University

M.S. Applied Information Technology · Fairfax, VA

The master’s that brought me to the US. Finished May 2026, while shipping three products of my own on the side.

Business school

IBS Mumbai

MBA

Earned while working full time as an analyst and then a data modeler. The theory and the practice arrived in the same week, repeatedly.

Undergrad

Bhavna Trust College

B.S. Information Technology

Where the code started.

How I Workthree rules from the counter

Discovery

Start at the Counter

Everything useful I have shipped came from standing where the work happens and watching what people do instead of what they say they do.

Scope

Ship the Boring Part First

Data model, permissions, the ugly edge cases. Get those right and the rest of the roadmap stops fighting you six months later.

Outcome

Adoption Is the Metric

A feature nobody opens is a feature that does not exist. I care about the second week of usage far more than the launch.

Field note

The Feature I Measured, Walked Back and Shipped Smaller

A case study from PitStop: the realtime design that failed its own probe, and the smaller one that shipped the same day.

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The toolkit

Jira Confluence Figma SQL Python Power BI PostHog Dynamics 365 Azure DevOps Lucidchart Claude Cursor Next.js Supabase

Off the Clocka camera, grease and a homelab

Camera

Photography

Streets, machines and light, on a Sony Alpha 7 V. Twenty nine frames and counting.

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Grease

The Garage

Weekends smell like engine oil. Every screen in PitStop exists because I have stood at that counter and watched the diary lose a job card.

Homelab

The Jellyfin Server

A machine in the corner of the house runs Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy, with certificates that renew themselves. Mostly. The 2am debugging is how I learned what my engineers deal with.

Contactone email, answered fast

Open to work

Let’s Talk.

I am looking for a product management role in vertical SaaS, fintech or AI tooling, in the US or remote. Authorized to work in the US on OPT. Happy to talk shop about garages, approval matrices or alarm panels too.

venkatesh@venkateshgardas.com

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