Hi, I am Utkarsh Shrivastava
Engineer with an MBA who refused to stop building. I think in systems, decide with data, and ship products where the messiest problems meet the cleanest UX. Give me a vague problem, a room full of opinions, and access to users - I'll figure out what to build.
My Journey So Far
Real products shipped at scale - from 0-to-1 platforms to AI-powered workflows, each backed by measurable outcomes.
Driving Interoperability for Talent Tech
Consolidated five siloed legacy products into a unified ingestion platform through 0-to-1 development and an event-driven architecture. Proactively proposed and led the expansion of the platform to enable centralized user lifecycle management for 600+ enterprise customers
0-to-1
Platform Strategy
$1.3M ARR
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Optimizing the Path to Hire: A Data-Driven UX Overhaul
Identified a 60% mid-funnel drop-off on SchoolSpring's 800K+ MAU job board and led a full UX overhaul - shipping Easy Apply, progressive disclosure, and mobile-first redesign to more than double application completion rates.
Funnel Analytics
+133% Conversion Lift
Easy Apply
Mobile-First
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AI-Powered HR Operations: Verticalizing RAG for School Districts
Verticalized PowerSchool's enterprise RAG engine (Powerbuddy) into a compliance-grade HR assistant for K-12 districts - delivering instant, source-attributed policy answers and deflecting 23% of Tier 1 support tickets.
AI Productization
23% Deflection
Enterprise RAG
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Unified Candidate Identity: Streamlining Multi-District Applications
Led the migration from siloed district logins to a centralized SSO architecture using Auth0 - enabling a Universal Candidate Profile that increased cross-district applications by 40% and cut password-reset tickets in half.
Unified Identity (SSO)
40% Engagement Lift
Enterprise Security
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Driving Interoperability for Talent Tech
Consolidated five siloed legacy products into a unified ingestion platform through 0-to-1 development and an event-driven architecture. Proactively proposed and led the expansion of the platform to enable centralized user lifecycle management for 600+ enterprise customers.
View ProjectOptimizing the Path to Hire: A Data-Driven UX Overhaul
Identified a 60% mid-funnel drop-off on SchoolSpring's 800K+ MAU job board and led a full UX overhaul — shipping Easy Apply, progressive disclosure, and mobile-first redesign to more than double application completion rates.
View ProjectAI-Powered HR Operations: Verticalizing RAG for School Districts
Verticalized PowerSchool's enterprise RAG engine (Powerbuddy) into a compliance-grade HR assistant for K-12 districts — delivering instant, source-attributed policy answers and deflecting 23% of Tier 1 support tickets.
View ProjectUnified Candidate Identity: Streamlining Multi-District Applications
Led the migration from siloed district logins to a centralized SSO architecture using Auth0 — enabling a Universal Candidate Profile that increased cross-district applications by 40% and cut password-reset tickets in half.
View ProjectOutcomes that matter
Numbers from real products - shipped, measured, and owned end to end.
Projects & Experiments
Apps built through vibe coding — experiments at the intersection of product thinking and AI.
PM Prep AI: A RAG System That Actually Adapts
A retrieval-augmented system for PM interview prep featuring adaptive query routing, hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval with Reciprocal Rank Fusion, and semantic caching in Redis. Stack: FastAPI · LangGraph · Qdrant · Gemini · RAGAS.
Product Teardowns
Deep dives into products I didn't build - exploring strategy, UX trade-offs, and the thinking behind the decisions.
Academic Journey
From engineering foundations to business leadership - building the toolkit for product excellence.
2012-2016MNNIT Allahabad
B.Tech
Electronics & Communication
2018-2020MDI Gurgaon
PGDM
Finance, Marketing, Operations
Credentials & Learning
AI and product management certifications from IBM, Duke University, and SkillUp.
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Build production-ready RAG applications from architecture to deployment and evaluation, covering chunking, embedding, retrieval, and re-ranking.
Generative AI for Product Managers
Proficiency in leveraging generative AI tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT for product management — from concept and roadmap creation to launch collaterals and AI-powered product building.
Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
Deep dive into generative AI architectures and large language models, covering tokenization, data preparation, and PyTorch implementation for training LLMs.
Machine Learning Foundations for Product Managers
Core machine learning concepts for product managers — from supervised and unsupervised learning to model evaluation and deployment, by Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.
Python Data Structures
Foundational Python programming with focus on core data structures — lists, dictionaries, tuples, and their practical applications in building programs.
SQL for Data Science
SQL fundamentals for data science — querying, filtering, joining, and analyzing data in relational databases with real-world applications.
Recognition
Moments where the work spoke louder than words.
PowerschoolAbove and Beyond
Awarded for zeal and passion towards building customer success
CapgeminiRising Star
Awarded in recognition of outstanding performance in projects
Let's Connect
Looking for a product leader who builds? Let's discuss how I can help drive your next product breakthrough.