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Ashutosh Ranjan

Product Management Product Development • Strategy • Growth
Tech + Business AI Products • Automation • Analytics
Building great products Gurgaon, Haryana, India

4+ years turning business problems into shipped outcomes. Experience building 0→1 products. Worked across tech, insurance, and market research industry. From strategy and roadmaps to full working prototypes, I own the full arc of building. Always open to learning whatever the next problem needs, and quick at it.

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Turning user problems into shipped products,
and products into measurable impact.

outreach per sales rep with JC Engage; proposal drafting 8h → 40min
90%
fewer client email threads for queries and follow-ups after launching a delivery portal
qualified leads at a 35% higher reply rate from a signal-based lead engine
7+
utility tools cutting process times by 80%+; built solo using AI
Now

Marketplace for freelancers

Matches freelance moderators to research projects on specialty, language and rate, so research teams can find, book and manage a fragmented pool of independents in one place.

Recently

In-call answer engine

A RAG system that retrieves from 2,000+ proposals and capability docs to answer a prospect's question on a live call, at 95% accuracy. Post-call follow-ups fell 40%.

Next

Synthetic respondents

AI respondents that answer a study in minutes instead of weeks of fieldwork, calibrated against real panel data so the results hold up.

I'm Ashutosh Ranjan,
building impactful products —
grounded in strategy, powered by data and technology.

What I Do

Product Strategy & Vision

Setting north-star metrics, sizing markets, and shaping multi-year roadmaps. Framing the problem, making trade-offs explicit, and aligning teams and leadership on what gets built and what doesn't.

Discovery, Data & Experimentation

Interviewing users, studying competitors, and analyzing funnel data to find the problems and opportunities worth pursuing. Testing changes with A/B experiments, instrumenting every release, and letting evidence drive the next decision.

Execution & Cross-Functional Delivery

Writing PRDs, building working prototypes, and prioritizing features with engineering and design. Tracking adoption after launch and iterating on what falls short.

AI Product Craft

Shipping 0→1 GenAI products, from RAG systems and AI agents to automation pipelines. Judging feasibility, running evals, and weighing quality against cost and latency.

(03) The journey so far

EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience ↗ Professional Experience ↗ Professional Experience ↗ Professional Experience ↗ Professional Experience ↗ Professional Experience ↗
2025
Product Strategy Manager — CEO's Office
Gurgaon, Haryana, India Apr 2025 – Present

Working with the CEO and senior leadership across business functions to drive key initiatives and growth plans, focusing on product strategy, roadmapping, new product development, and workflow/process automation.

Product Strategy 0→1 GenAI Roadmaps Stakeholder Alignment

Key Achievements

  • Cut proposal drafting from 8 hours to 40 minutes and lifted per-rep outreach 6× by launching JC Engage, an LLM-based application that automates the client intelligence and personalized outreach pipeline, cutting analyst research and design time.
  • Eliminated 90% of client email threads and 8 hours/week of manual reporting by building and launching a client delivery portal from 0 to 1, replacing email and spreadsheet tracking with a single view of milestones, approvals, and deliverables.
  • Built a B2B moderator marketplace 0→1, from market sizing and ICP through to a phased build with an 8-person engineering and design pod.
  • Cut post-call follow-ups 40% by shipping a real-time sales assistant that answers client questions on live calls, using RAG over 2,000+ proposals and capability docs at 95% answer accuracy.
  • Grew qualified leads 5× at a 35% higher reply rate by building a signal-based lead engine that scans the market for hiring, funding, and launch signals to discover net-new prospects and identify contacts.
  • Reduced RFQ quote turnaround from 4 hours to 15 minutes by automating bid response with LLM-based extraction of audience, sample, and timeline criteria and an ML pricing model trained on historical bids.
2024
Risk Management Intern
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Apr 2024 – May 2024

Worked in the Risk Control Unit. Learned about the insurance industry and its products. Introduced ML-driven fraud detection in insurance claims.

BRDs & PRDs ML Data Analysis FastAPI Flask

Key Achievements

  • Improved claims-processing accuracy 40% over manual/rule-based methods by building RiskRadarAI, an ML-based claims-scoring app. Demoed to the CTO & RCU Head.
  • Got 4 high-impact features approved for development while reviewing the BRD for the new Investigation module.
  • Lifted fraud-flag accuracy 10% by defining and shipping new triggers in the fraud-detection engine.
2019
Software Engineer I
Pune, Maharashtra, India Jul 2019 – Jul 2022

Developed applications and owned performance-testing infrastructure for Avaya's enterprise telephony servers and its flagship contact center product.

Software Development System Design Web Development Python C++ Django SQL Databases Automation Bash Linux Agile Jira

Key Achievements

  • Reclaimed 40+ man-hours a month by designing and building an automation portal that orchestrated the end-to-end test pipeline.
  • Cut deployment time 75% by re-architecting the deployment process for a call-traffic-generator product.
  • Eliminated 80% of the manual effort by shipping a debug-logging application that closed long-standing workflow gaps.
  • Expanded test coverage 60% by automating customer-engagement scenarios for Avaya Aura® Call Center Elite.
  • Saved 20+ hours a month by replacing manual extension configuration in System Manager with a bulk-operation tool.
  • Owned performance testing end to end for Avaya's telephony servers and Call Center Elite.
  • Selected 1 of 20 globally, across 7,000+ employees, for the Avaya Accelerate program.
(04) Where it all began

EDUCATION

Academic Journey ↗ Academic Journey ↗ Academic Journey ↗ Academic Journey ↗ Academic Journey ↗ Academic Journey ↗
2023
MBA (PGP)3.15/4.33
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Jun 2023 – Mar 2025

Highlights

  • Scored a 99.86 percentile in CAT, India's national MBA entrance exam, to earn admission to IIM Ahmedabad.
  • Concentrated electives in Product, Strategy, Analytics, Marketing.
  • Served as Logistics Head for Chaos, IIM Ahmedabad's cultural festival.
  • Member of the General Management and Leadership Club (GMLC), TEDx IIMA, and Agile CCC (Computer and Connectivity Club).
  • Represented IIM Ahmedabad in volleyball at Sangharsh ’25, the inter-IIM sports tournament.
2015
B.Tech9.28/10
Pune, Maharashtra, India Jul 2015 – May 2019

Highlights

  • Served as Chairperson of the IEEE Student Branch.
  • Semifinalist in the e-Yantra Robotics Competition hosted by IIT Bombay.
  • Ranked among the top 50 teams globally in the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition.
  • Graphic Design Secretary.
2002
Science, CBSEXth: 96.2% | XIIth: 92.2%

Highlights

  • Received the CBSE Merit Certificate.
  • Selected for All India Jr. Science and Mathematics Olympiad training camp at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR, Mumbai.
  • Awarded Maharashtra Talent Examination Scholarship.
  • Served as School Sports Captain.
(02) Now for the good stuff

SHOWCASE

Projects ↗ Prototypes ↗ Case Studies ↗ Experiments ↗ Side Quests ↗ Projects ↗ Prototypes ↗ Case Studies ↗ Experiments ↗ Side Quests ↗
Assist walkthrough: the desktop dashboard, the knowledge base of indexed company documents, meeting profiles, the translucent overlay floating above a video call and dragged to a second position, a close-up of a sourced answer, the same overlay flagging a question its documents do not cover, the live transcript and Q&A stream, and the saved session history with export options.
Desktop applicationWindows 10/11

AssistLive Answers for Sales Calls

ProblemMid-call a prospect asks the specific question about pricing, integrations or security, and the answer is buried in a deck nobody can open mid-sentence. The rep stalls, guesses, or promises to follow up, and the moment is gone.

ApproachA desktop app that listens to the call and answers from the company’s own documents in a floating, always-on-top overlay. Whisper transcribes, a fast model picks out the genuine questions, retrieval pulls the matching passages from the indexed doc set, and a stronger model writes the answer with its sources. Meeting profiles scope it to the call type, and a rep voiceprint keeps the seller’s own speech out of the trigger path.

In practiceThe answer lands in about a second in a translucent window the rep can drag anywhere, and when the documents don’t cover the question it says so instead of inventing an answer.

Product decisions Assist

North-star metricSeconds between the prospect finishing the question and a usable, sourced answer being on screen. That is what forced the overlay, because an answer the rep has to alt-tab for has already missed the moment.

Why desktop, not a tab The two things this needs, capturing the meeting’s audio and holding a window above the call, are exactly what a browser tab cannot do. Electron for the shell and a bundled Python service for capture, diarization and retrieval; the cost is an installer instead of a URL.

Designed to be wrong out loud Every answer is graded against what retrieval actually found, and a weak match is labelled and told to escalate rather than dressed up as an answer. On a live call a confident wrong answer is far more expensive than an admitted gap, so the guardrail is the feature.

Quizzly walkthrough: the quiz dashboard, generating questions with AI from a document, the question editor, a reusable question bank, sharing by link or QR, playing a quiz, and hosting a live match with a player joined by code.
Web AppLive

QuizzlyAI Quiz Builder & Live Match

ProblemBuilding a decent quiz means writing every question, answer and explanation by hand, and running one for a group means either paper and a projector or a heavyweight classroom platform.

ApproachPoint it at one or more sources (PDF, DOCX, TXT or a fetched page URL), then set the question count, difficulty, a focus area and which of nine types to draft (MCQ, true/false, fill-in-blank, short answer, numeric, cloze, poll, ordering, matching). Every question lands in an editor with its answer key and explanation; keepers go to a reusable bank. The quiz then ships as a link, QR or embed, or as a live host-controlled match players join by code.

In practiceSource material becomes a playable quiz in minutes, and a room can play it from their own phones with no account on the player side.

Product decisions Quizzly

North-star metricTime from “I have this material” to a quiz someone can actually play. Everything else follows from that: ingesting a document rather than a blank form, drafting the explanation alongside the answer, and publishing to a link instead of an export.

Where AI stops Generation drafts questions, it never publishes them. Each item lands in the editor with its type, difficulty, points and explanation exposed for review, and the quiz keeps a record of which source documents produced it, because a wrong answer key costs far more in a quiz than a slow one, so the human check is the point rather than a formality.

Two modes, one quiz The same quiz works asynchronously (share a link, play alone, scored against a pass mark) and live (host opens a lobby, players join by code from their phones, host controls the pace). Building both off one question model meant no separate “live version” to maintain.

QueueLess walkthrough: the landing page, a customer joining the queue from their phone and tracking their position, staff calling the next token, the waiting-room display board showing NOW SERVING, and the operator dashboard with live stats and an audit log.
Web AppLive

QueueLessVirtual Queues for Any Venue

ProblemClinics and service counters still run on paper tokens and called-out numbers, so customers have to physically hold their place in line and staff have no shared view of who is waiting or how long.

ApproachA QR at the venue opens a mobile queue: customers join, watch their position live and walk away; counter staff call the next token with priority and walk-in handling; a TV board mirrors “now serving”; operators get wait-time analytics, per-counter staff and an audit log.

In practiceZero hardware, with no kiosks and nothing to install on either side. Multi-tenant, so a business self-serves signup and its queue is live in about a minute.

Product decisions QueueLess

North-star metricMinutes a customer spends physically standing in line, not time-in-queue. Someone can wait forty minutes happily if they spend them elsewhere, which is why the status page leads with position and estimated wait rather than a countdown.

Keeping the queue honest An open join link can be spammed from anywhere. The venue QR rotates every ~30 seconds and the link cannot be forwarded, so joining requires physically being there; optional CAPTCHA and a manual-approval mode with visual PIN matching cover higher-risk venues.

Built for the whole floor, not one screen Five surfaces share one live queue: customer phone, counter tablet, waiting-room TV, operator desktop and a platform admin. Counters, staff accounts, categories, operating hours and an audit log make it usable by a team rather than a single person.

QuickShare walkthrough: creating a room, sharing the code and QR, a guest joining without an account, uploading a file, and the host panel updating live.
Web AppLive

QuickShareEphemeral File Rooms

ProblemGetting a file onto the presenting laptop mid-session means email, a USB stick, or borrowing someone’s cloud login. All are slow, and the file is left sitting on a shared machine afterwards.

ApproachA room-based handoff: a 6-character code or QR opens a shared space, guests upload up to 500 MB per file without an account, and the host keeps control through visibility toggles, room and panel passwords, kick, and a hard expiry.

In practiceFiles move in seconds with zero setup, and the room deletes itself and everything in it on expiry, so nothing lingers on a borrowed device.

Product decisions QuickShare

North-star metricTime from “send me your file” to it being open on the presenting screen, which is why a room is reachable by a 6-character code or a QR scan and needs no sign-up on either side.

Key trade-off Simplicity over real-time plumbing. Room state is polled from a single /api/rooms/{code}/state endpoint rather than held open on sockets, since a second or two of lag is invisible in a handoff, and it keeps the server stateless and cheap to run.

Control without accounts The hard part was giving a host authority over a room nobody logs into. Solved with split links: a share link for guests, and a separate host link that restores the panel on any device, plus optional room and panel passwords, per-participant file locks, and kick.

Every app is fully functional. If you hit a problem, do let me know what went wrong. Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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(05) Learning in motion

CERTIFICATIONS

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SKILLS

(02) Now for the good stuff
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Product, Strategy & AI Skills

Tools & Technologies