I'm Phani — a technologist working at the seam of product and engineering. I have developed products of different types from workflow-heavy products, translate technical complexity into product decisions, and work across engineering, ML, hardware and operations to ship useful systems.
Work
- Founding Product Engineer (Product Manger + Software Engineer)
Built a full-stack EOR platform for HR, payroll, onboarding and compliance workflows in India. I worked across product, backend, frontend and customer discovery — taking the product from idea to MVP and early customer onboarding.
read more → - Senior Technical Product Manager — Cloud & ML
Owned product delivery for cloud, ML and embedded software workflows in an IoT wildfire detection system. I coordinated roadmap, releases and cross-functional execution between product, engineering, data science, DevOps and hardware teams.
read more → - Freelance Product Development Engineer — IoT Device for Shading Systems Control
Built an ESP32-based control unit MVP for connected shading systems. The work connected cloud setpoints, firmware behavior and real-world device reliability through deterministic control, reconnect logic and telemetry.
read more → - Product Developement & Operations Manager — Hardware for a Computer Vision System
Developed and iterated hardware prototypes for an underwater computer-vision system used in fish monitoring. I worked across mechanical design, field testing, suppliers and product operations to move the system from prototype to deployable versions.
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