Kanishka Namdeo - Product Manager Portfolio - Dubai, UAE
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Experience
9+ years building and scaling products across mobility, SaaS, robotics, and AI
Cognium is building AI-native workflow optimization software for private banking and wealth management firms.
Key Responsibilities
- Conducted 20+ user interviews to identify workflow gaps, enabling a clear 0-to-1 product direction.
- Defined MVP scope and LLM-agent architecture, ensuring delivery of personalized investment insights.
- Secured the first beta customer before prototype completion, validating early market demand.
- Created PRDs and wireframes to align engineering and business teams, speeding execution.
- Hired and guided a 4-member engineering team, accelerating technical experiments and roadmap delivery.
The Challenge
Private banking firms struggled with fragmented workflows and lack of personalized investment insights for high-net-worth clients.
The Solution
Built an AI-native platform leveraging AI-agents to automate personalized investment workflows, combining data aggregation with intelligent recommendations.
The Impact
Enabled wealth managers to deliver tailored insights 10x faster while maintaining compliance and data security requirements.
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Skills & Tools
Flipr Innovation Labs specializes in tailored software development for e-commerce and logistics companies.
Key Responsibilities
- Scoped core MVP features for a video intelligence system, ensuring smooth client deployment.
- Integrated with OMS and support tools, improving dispute resolution speed.
- Designed storage optimization workflows, reducing cloud costs through compression and archival.
- Enabled high-volume processing of ~50K daily orders, ensuring system reliability.
- Coordinated with client teams to ensure adoption and seamless workflow integration.
The Challenge
E-commerce client needed automated video analysis to reduce manual review workload and improve dispute resolution accuracy.
The Solution
Developed a video intelligence MVP with automated tagging, compression, and fast retrieval capabilities integrated with existing OMS.
The Impact
Reduced dispute resolution time by 60% while processing 50K+ daily video uploads with optimized cloud infrastructure.
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MoveInSync is the world's largest transport-as-a-service provider for enterprises, simplifying employee commute and business travel management.
Key Responsibilities
- Defined product vision and roadmap, driving 10x ARR growth and 15% usage increase.
- Expanded operations to 50+ new locations, enabling international market growth.
- Improved mobile app experience, increasing adoption by 20%.
- Rolled out invoicing, ERP integrations, and payments, adding 6+ clients to the upsell pipeline.
- Managed an 8-person sprint team, doubling productivity through better prioritization.
The Challenge
Scaling a successful TaaS platform from regional to global presence while maintaining product quality and driving revenue growth.
The Solution
Led strategic expansion to 70+ locations across 3 countries, launched mobile-first experience improvements, and built native payments/invoicing capabilities.
The Impact
Achieved 10x ARR growth, expanded to 60,000+ monthly users, and established the platform as the market leader in enterprise transport management.
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Skills & Tools
TekIP is a patent consulting firm specializing in SaaS solutions for IP search, analysis, and portfolio management.
Key Responsibilities
- Led an Agile team of 6 developers across 5 enterprise projects, delivering 40+ features on time.
- Designed software architecture and UX for NLP-based solutions using MEAN stack and Python microservices.
- Launched an NLP product leveraging LLMs, improving patent analysis productivity by 10x.
- Mentored developers and improved team capability by introducing modern technologies.
The Challenge
Patent analysts spent hours manually searching and analyzing patent databases, limiting productivity and research depth.
The Solution
Built an NLP-powered patent analysis platform leveraging LLMs to automate search, categorization, and insights extraction from patent databases.
The Impact
Improved patent analysis productivity by 10x, enabling deeper research while reducing time-to-insight for enterprise clients.
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Skills & Tools
Intugine is a leading SaaS platform specializing in logistics and supply chain visibility solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Led development of a multimodal logistics platform, delivering scalable solutions for enterprise clients.
- Defined product requirements and managed the backlog, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact features.
- Improved tracking accuracy across road, rail and air by enhancing system performance and data quality.
- Designed dashboards and alerting systems to provide real-time logistics visibility.
- Collaborated with clients and cross-functional teams to improve workflows and increase platform adoption.
The Challenge
Enterprise logistics teams struggled with fragmented visibility across road, rail, and air transport modes, leading to delayed decisions.
The Solution
Developed a unified logistics visibility platform with real-time tracking, intelligent alerting, and comprehensive analytics dashboards.
The Impact
Improved tracking accuracy across all transport modes and enabled data-driven decision making for enterprise logistics operations.
Key Metrics
Skills & Tools
Medulla.AI
Medulla,AI develops custom Ai-driven solutions for healthcare and enterprise clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Defined the vision for an AI‑based healthcare analytics product.
- Designed early ML features for prediction and anomaly detection.
- Created prototypes that were used by early pilot customers.
- Studied hospital workflows to identify automation opportunities.
- Built dashboards that supported clinical decision‑making.
- Ensured the product met healthcare data standards.
The Challenge
Healthcare providers lacked actionable insights from patient data, limiting their ability to predict outcomes and optimize operations.
The Solution
Designed an AI-powered analytics platform with predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and clinical decision support dashboards.
The Impact
Enabled healthcare teams to identify at-risk patients earlier and optimize resource allocation based on data-driven predictions.
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Skills & Tools
Sagar Defence develops unmanned aerial and maritime solutions for several defence and paramilitary agencies.
Key Responsibilities
- Developed autonomous navigation algorithms for unmanned surface vehicles used in defense applications.
- Integrated sensors and embedded systems to improve navigation accuracy through multi-sensor fusion.
- Conducted field trials with defense and industrial partners to validate system performance.
- Built simulation environments to test mission scenarios before deployment.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance power management and marine safety compliance.
The Challenge
Defense agencies needed reliable autonomous surface vehicles capable of operating in challenging marine environments with minimal human intervention.
The Solution
Developed autonomous USVs with multi-sensor fusion navigation, obstacle avoidance, and real-time telemetry for defense and paramilitary applications.
The Impact
Successfully deployed autonomous systems that operated reliably in field trials, advancing India's maritime defense capabilities.
Key Metrics
Skills & Tools
Code & Open Source
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Kanishka Namdeo
Product Manager | Software Engineer
I build digital products that people love to use — with clean code and thoughtful design.
Hey, I'm Kanishka
I'm a technical product manager who loves building tools that make people's lives easier. With a background in engineering and a passion for clean design, I bridge the gap between technology and user experience.
My journey started from coding robots to leading product and tech strategy across several startups.