Shankar Deenadayalan

Product Manager — from first PRD to live pilot, with the metrics to prove it worked.

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Shankar Deenadayalan
San Diego, CA · Product Manager · MS Business Analytics @ UCSD

Five years turning messy business problems into products
people actually use — and measuring whether they did:

* Leading a 4-person team from PRD to live pilot on an AI
  student-success platform for 183 MSBA students: 5 tools
  into one, ~$64K/yr saved, ~1,800 student-hours freed.
* First product hire at Kevali: recovered 21% of abandoned
  carts and grew conversion 15% on a $186K/qtr storefront.
* Shipped a recommender at Tap Invest that lifted engagement
  31% across $12M AUM, and cut underwriting from 3 days to 1.
* At BCG, built the models behind a $50M ride-sharing
  client's plan to electrify half its fleet.

Now: AI product work — agents, RAG, evals — with the
technical depth to build the prototype myself.

I like products that meet the business where it lives,
and personal sites that boot like it's 2003.

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Processor:5 yrs across consulting, fintech, D2C & AI products

Memory:$64K/yr saved · 21% carts recovered · +31% engagement

Stack:PRDs · Roadmaps · A/B testing · SQL · Python · Jira · PostHog · RAG & agents

UC San Diego, Rady School of Management — Business Analytics Programmer & Product ManagerJul 2026 – Present

Set the vision and lead a 4-person team from conception to live pilot on an AI student-success platform for 183 MSBA students, consolidating 5 tools into one; own the roadmap, PRDs and UX
Built the business case: ~$64K/yr in program savings by retiring 3 paid tools, plus ~4,000 advising questions/yr deflected to a RAG assistant, freeing ~1,800 student-hours
Defined success metrics (DAU/WAU/MAU, session depth, tool-replacement rate), instrumented analytics pre-launch, set 85% monthly / 65% weekly active-use targets; own cross-functional stakeholder management across faculty, advisors and leadership

Gramercy Funds Management — AI Product CapstoneApr – Jun 2026

Scoped and delivered a country-risk scoring system for a $7.4B emerging-markets investment manager, replacing analyst-maintained spreadsheets with a scalable, config-extended platform with explainable formula scoring
AI agents pull data from APIs, spreadsheets and PDFs, fall back to agentic web search when a source is stale, score countries on weighted risk factors and mine earnings calls with NLP

Kevali — Product ManagerOct 2024 – Jun 2025

Recovered 21% of abandoned carts for a $186K-a-quarter D2C storefront by making cart recovery the first roadmap priority and launching propensity-triggered recovery campaigns
Grew conversion 15% (+$24K/qtr) by building an acquisition and retention experimentation program: prioritized A/B tests from funnel data, shipped winners with marketing and engineering
First product hire; took a legacy family jewellery business online, owning go-to-market strategy and instrumenting the storefront from day one

Tap Invest — Senior Business Analyst (Product)Mar – Sep 2024

Launched a personalized recommender: +24% portfolio diversification, +31% engagement across $12M AUM and $554K in monthly inflows
Cut underwriting from 3 days to 1 by redesigning the workflow around the few indicators that predicted outcomes across 88 contracts
Replaced manual month-end reporting with a unified financial and user data model: close time −25%

Boston Consulting Group — Research AssociateJun 2021 – Sep 2023

Built route-optimization and demand-forecasting models that underpinned a $50M ride-sharing client's strategy to electrify 50% of its fleet
Owned a $30K budget and negotiated contracts with 8 charging partners for an Oil & Gas conglomerate: +36% fuel-station traffic

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