AI-Native Product Manager · Enterprise SaaS Strategy · Platform Growth

Akshay Kumar A R

AI-Native Product Manager|

B2B SaaS & AI Product Manager shipping 0-to-1 platforms and autonomous AI agent workflows under enterprise compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

7+ Yrs
B2B SaaS & AI Leadership
100+
Enterprise Partner Integrations
100%
SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR Audit Success
0-to-1 PM
Founder & Platform Architect
History

Professional Experience

Current Role

Product Consultant

Freelance · Independent consulting practice | May 2025 – Present

  • Scraped, sanitized, and structured fine-tuning datasets and managed evaluation cycles for early-stage AI startups to eliminate hallucination vectors.
  • Validated problem-solution fit and customer discovery for early-stage AI startups, framing MVP scope and go-to-market sequencing.
  • Achieved an 80% data prep reduction in 2 months by orchestrating synthetic data generation workflows via n8n and OpenAI APIs.
  • Established agile sprint cadences and product documentation standards, improving on-time delivery from ~50% to 85%.
0 → 1 Products & MVPs
Agentic AI AI Product Development
80% Data Prep Reduction
Multi-Tenant B2B Enterprise Solutions
Enterprise SaaS & Logistics

Product Manager

StackBOX Services Pvt. Ltd. | Jul 2022 - Jan 2025

12+ Hrs/Wk Ops Time Saved
3 Wks → 4 Days Client Onboarding
  • Identified operational teams losing 12+ hrs/week and shipped modular automation layer cutting enterprise client onboarding from 3 weeks to 4 days.
  • Owned transport and order execution modules, accelerating data retrieval speed by 30% and eliminating SLA breach penalties.
  • Drove partner integrations with 100+ external systems, accelerating engineering release velocity by 50%.
  • Led ISO 27001/SOC 2 compliance streams, closing 12 critical security controls and shortening audit cycles from 8 weeks to 3 weeks (100% audit pass rate).
Legal Tech & Process

Product Analyst / Process Engineer

Algo Legal | Dec 2020 - Jun 2022

30% Support Ticket Cut
50% Reduced load time
  • Structured qualitative discovery by conducting user interviews, identifying 3 root causes driving 30% of support tickets.
  • Authored comprehensive PRDs and functional specifications, accelerating feature release cycles by 50% under strict legal regulatory standards.
  • Established user feedback loops that increased research participation by 150% and lowered platform ownership costs by 15%.
  • Leveraged results from data analytics to inform strategic decisions and streamlined operational workflows, reducing overhead by 20%.
0-to-1 Product Launches

Project Manager

Decabits Software | Aug 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Managed 10+ SaaS lifecycles across cross-functional engineering, design, and QA teams.
  • Conducted post-launch audits across 5 products yielding 25% process gains and reducing project misalignment by 80%.
  • Led 0-to-1 launch of Myanmar's first e-pharmacy platform with payment integrations, driving 100% revenue growth and 50% above-target user adoption.
  • Streamlined stakeholder communication across cross-functional teams, reducing project misalignment issues by 80%.
10+ SaaS Lifecycles Managed
25% Process Gains
0 to 1 Product Launches
100% Revenue Growth
Capabilities

Skills & Core Competencies

Product Strategy & Discovery

User Research (80+ Interviews) Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) PRD Authoring Prioritization Frameworks GTM Strategy OKRs & KPIs A/B Testing Product-Market Fit Validation

AI Product Architecture

RAG Pipeline Design Agentic Workflow Orchestration (n8n) Synthetic Data Generation LLM Fine-Tuning Pipelines Prompt Engineering & Versioning AI Output Evaluation & Benchmark

Compliance & Data Governance

SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR Compliance Audit Readiness Data Privacy in Regulated Envs Security Control Gap Closing

Tools & Analytics

Mixpanel Clarity Figma Linear Jira Postman SQL Python Docker GitHub Playwright FastAPI PostgreSQL n8n
Showcase

Featured Work & Shipped Platforms

  • All Work
  • QA & Automation
  • AI Agents & RAG
  • Tools & Extensions
Flagship Platform Founder & Architect

Elimenots — Codeless Test Automation Platform

Stack: Playwright, FastAPI, Angular, PostgreSQL, Docker

1. Problem & Context:

QA engineering teams lose 12+ hours/week writing, maintaining, and fixing fragile browser automation scripts, delaying release cycles.

2. Architecture & Solution:

Self-hosted codeless test automation platform built with Playwright, FastAPI, Angular, PostgreSQL, and Docker. Features a visual test creator and containerized asynchronous runner engine.

3. Business Impact:

Eliminated script maintenance bottlenecks, compressed regression execution cycles by 70%, and enabled 0-code onboarding for non-technical QA testers.

Platform Architecture:
[Angular Visual Builder]
  └── [FastAPI Async Orchestrator]
      ├── [Playwright Execution Engine]
      ├── [PostgreSQL Test Store]
      └── [Docker Isolated Runners]
70% Faster QA Cycles
0 Lines Code Required
Privacy-Preserving AI AI Agent

Autonomous Synthetic Data Engine

Stack: GPT-4, n8n Agentic Workflow, Python, GDPR Engine

Context: Strict GDPR and privacy compliance constraints prevented AI teams from using production customer data for fine-tuning.

Product Decision: Designed and orchestrated an agentic workflow using no-code tools, n8n, and GPT-4 to automate GDPR-compliant synthetic data generation with built-in validation loops,

Quantified Impact: Reduced data prep cycle time by 80% within 2 months while maintaining 100% audit privacy compliance.

80% Data Prep Reduction in 2 Months
Support & Knowledge RAG / Vector Search

Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval Agent

Stack: Vector Embeddings, RAG Pipeline, Python, LLM Evaluation

Context: Internal support and operational teams lost 15+ hrs/week navigating fragmented knowledge bases.

Product Decision: RAG-based support agent retrieving context-aware answers from internal documentation bases with strict access control.

Quantified Impact: Identified 3 root causes driving 30% of support tickets and accelerated internal lookup times by 60%.

30% Support Ticket Cut
Developer Tool

API Lens Chrome Extension

Stack: JavaScript, Chrome Extension API, Network Tracing

Visualized real-time API call sequences for QA engineers during live testing, reducing active debugging time and trace effort across partner integrations.

50% Faster Debugging Cycles
Framework

Product Thinking & Philosophy

01

Discovery & PM Fit

Problem Validation & MVP Scoping

Structuring qualitative discovery across 80+ interviews to isolate core user friction before building. Authoring clear PRDs and GTM sequencing that cuts time-to-first-user by 50%.

02

Enterprise Governance

SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · GDPR

Embedding security controls into software architecture from Day 1. Closing compliance gaps and enabling privacy-compliant AI workflows that collapse B2B sales cycles.

03

AI Orchestration & Scale

RAG & Agentic Workflows

Leveraging codeless test automation, Playwright, n8n agentic workflows, and API-first partner integrations (100+ systems) to eliminate operational drag at enterprise scale.

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Open for B2B SaaS consulting, 0-to-1 product strategy, enterprise compliance roadmap execution, and autonomous AI agent workflows.

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