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Turning emerging technology into platforms, teams, and measurable growth.

I lead cross-functional teams building GenAI data platforms, ML infrastructure, and reinforcement-learning environments — from portfolio strategy and market validation through launch, adoption, and revenue.

20+
Years shipping
$50M+
Annual impact enabled
$45B+
Business revenue shipped into
Kausalya Rani Krishna Samy
Currently building at Centific
5x
faster iteration
Executive Proof

Impact, quantified

Quantified Impact
Fastest delivery
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Cut wait times
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Cut cloud cost
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Lift forecasts
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Cut support calls
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Leadership Scope

How I operate as a leader

I shape product portfolios, translate customer and market signals into investment decisions, and create the operating clarity that lets engineering, data science, design, operations, and GTM teams execute together.

Strategic Case Studies

Decisions, not just deliverables

Portfolio Strategy

GenAI product portfolio

Context Four Gen AI product lines — Data Marketplace, DataCanvas, One Data, and RLEaaS — with no single owner sequencing where to invest next.

Decision Took ownership of product and engineering execution across all four, prioritizing by customer discovery friction and revenue potential.

Result Built the 1,000+ dataset marketplace from zero, cut discovery time 80%, and drove multimillion-dollar revenue growth.

0-to-1 Platform

Data Marketplace

Context The product catalog already existed, but the sales process was entirely manual — customers had little visibility into solutions Centific already had.

Decision Built a self-service marketplace instead of scaling the manual sales motion further.

Result 1,000+ datasets live, discovery time cut 80%, multimillion-dollar revenue growth.

ML Infrastructure

ML forecasting at Chewy

Context Demand forecasting was a manual, offline process — data scientists generating reports on their own machines.

Decision Led the build of an end-to-end ML forecasting platform as founding PM.

Result Became a critical capability for a business generating $11.15B in annual revenue, lifting prediction accuracy 50%.

Track Record

Experience & impact

2024 — Present

Product Management Lead

Centific

Own product and engineering execution across four of Centific's Gen AI product lines — Data Marketplace, DataCanvas, One Data, and RLEaaS. Built the 1,000+ dataset marketplace from zero, cutting discovery time 80% and driving multimillion-dollar revenue growth; also built RLEaaS (RL Environments-as-a-Service), the platform and self-guided onboarding flow for standing up a reinforcement-learning environment.

Gen AI
Data Marketplace
Portfolio
RLEaaS
Reinforcement Learning
0-to-1
2024 — Present

Chief Product Officer, Founding Member

Hellowiz

Lead product strategy for a live subscription marketplace connecting specialist “wizards” with customers. Own the product vision, platform evolution, customer experience, technology direction, and board alignment; translate real-user behavior into roadmap and growth priorities.

Founding Member
0-to-1
2022 — 2024

Sr. Technical Product Manager

Chewy

As founding PM, took demand forecasting off data scientists' local machines and into a production ML platform — time-series, on-demand, and SKU-level forecasting supporting a business generating $11.15B in annual revenue, lifting prediction accuracy 50%.

ML Forecasting
Supply Chain
0-to-1
2020 — 2022

Sr. Technical Product Manager

Amazon

Took carrier onboarding from 30 days to under a week via self-service tooling and ML fraud detection — worth $15M–$30M a year — while launching AI tools on Amazon Connect that cut employee support calls 30% and wait times 75%.

Supply Chain
ML Powered Fraud Detection
AI Powered Chatbots
Alexa Kiosks for Ops
2017 — 2020

Sr. Enterprise DevOps Architect

AWS

Led cloud-migration strategy for enterprise AWS customers — including building the microservice deployment automation for a major bank's e-commerce platform and the build-and-deploy strategy for a national retail chain's website — cutting operational cost 60% while hiring and mentoring a team of Solution Architects.

Cloud Architecture
Migration
Enterprise Solutions
Serverless Architecture
Cost Optimization
Application Development
2016 — 2017

Agile & DevOps Coach

T-Mobile

Coached product managers on scaling Agile and Scrum-of-Scrums, and led DevOps transformation for enterprise delivery platforms across marketing, payments, and finance teams — an Agile/DevOps transformation with $50M+ in measurable impact, and the pivot from engineer to coach that set up everything since.

Agile Coaching
DevOps Transformation
Scrum of Scrums
Product Management Framework
Earlier engineering experience
2015 — 2016
Sr. Application DeveloperTriveni IT · USA
2012 — 2015
Service Engineer 2Microsoft · USA
2010 — 2012
Systems Developer (onsite, USA)Tech Mahindra · USA
2006 — 2010
Systems DeveloperTech Mahindra · India
2006
Java Developer InternMazenet · India
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A roadmap is really just the highest-confidence bets you can make with limited information — you only learn the full story once you see what the user actually experienced.

Kausalya Rani Krishna Samy, on leadership philosophy
Recognition

Speaking & recognition

2026
Judged 20 startup pitches and advised founders on MVP, roadmap, and fundraising strategy — 3 winners went on to earn 409A valuations and fundraising introductions, across beauty marketplace subscriptions, property management, and healthcareSeattle Tech Week × PitchForce
2026
Presented on the AI generalist and product leadershipCPO & Product Operations Summit — Amsterdam
2019
Presented to AWS Developer Tools in the Builder Track sessionAWS re:Invent
2018
Ran the AWS Builder Tools booth — live CodeBuild & CodeDeploy demos from AWS blog walkthroughsAWS re:Invent
About

Two decades turning ambiguity into shipped product.

I wrote my first program at 13 — a C program doing mathematic calculation — and decided right there I'd be a builder. That throughline runs from Systems Development in Hyderabad to Product Management at Centific today: find the problem a team has normalized, then build the platform that makes it disappear.

Service engineering at Microsoft, cloud architecture at AWS, coaching Agile adoption at T-Mobile — that engineering foundation is why the products I lead get built right, not just shipped fast. The harder shift came later: learning the job isn't being the person who delivers the most, it's being the multiplier who lets a team accomplish more than I ever could alone.

Exploring the frontiers of AI, creativity, and human potential — creating what doesn't exist yet.

That range shows up outside product too — years on runway showsAdd your runway field note here, behind a cameraAdd your photography field note here, building communitiesAdd your hiking field note here. Different disciplines, same instinct: notice what others overlook, then create something that connects.

Multi-Agent Workflows
RL Training Environments
Gen AI Data Platforms
Outcome-Based Roadmaps

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