# Akshay Kumar A R — Product Manager | AI-Powered SaaS Strategy

## Who I Am

B2B SaaS and AI Product Manager with 7 years of experience shipping enterprise platforms across legal tech, compliance automation, and payment infrastructure. Specialized in zero-to-one builds, AI agent workflows, and scaling platforms under strict enterprise compliance constraints (SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

## What I Do

- **0-to-1 AI Product Discovery**: Problem-solution fit, MVP scoping, and go-to-market sequencing for early-stage AI startups.
- **Compliance-First Architecture**: Shipping platforms within SOC2, ISO 27001, and GDPR frameworks; closing control gaps and shortening B2B security sales cycles.
- **Evaluating LLMs & Agents**: Building LLM-powered agentic workflows, fine-tuning pipelines, and evaluation loops to minimize hallucination rates.
- **API-First & Platform Scale**: Designing flexible API-first platform models with 100+ partner integrations; shipping automation layers to reduce operational overhead.

## Career Highlights

- **Product Consultant (Freelance, May 2025 – Present)**: Built a Synthetic Data Generation Agent (GPT + n8n), reducing data prep time by 80%. Defined MVP scope and GTM sequencing, cutting time-to-first-user from 12 weeks to 6.
- **Product Manager @ StackBOX Services (Jul 2022 – Jan 2025)**: Shipped modular automation layer cutting onboarding from 3 weeks to 4 days. Led ISO 27001/SOC2 compliance, 100% audit success.
- **Product Analyst @ Algo Legal (Dec 2020 – Jun 2022)**: Structured 80+ attorney discovery interviews; accelerated feature development by 50%.
- **Project Manager @ Decabits Software (Aug 2019 – Nov 2020)**: 0-to-1 launch of Myanmar's first e-pharmacy with 100% revenue growth.

## Core Skills

Product Strategy, Roadmap Ownership, User Discovery & Research, UI/UX Design, JTBD, PRD Authoring, Prioritization Frameworks, A/B Testing, GTM Strategy, OKRs & KPIs, Agile/Scrum, SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, LLM Integration, Prompt Engineering, RAG Pipeline Design, Agentic Workflow Orchestration, Synthetic Data Generation, API-First Platform Design, AI Product Evaluation, Mixpanel, Clarity, Figma, Jira, Notion, SQL, Python, Docker, GitHub, n8n, Zapier.

## Projects

1. **Autonomous Synthetic Data Engine** (AI Agent): GDPR-compliant synthetic dataset generation using GPT + n8n. Reduced data prep time ~80%.
2. **Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval Agent** (RAG/Chatbot): RAG-based support agent for internal documentation retrieval; reduced support ticket volume.
3. **API Lens Chrome Extension** (Tool): Chrome extension visualizing live API call sequences in real-time for QA/dev teams.

## Contact

- **Location**: Bengaluru, India
- **Email**: akshay.ar123@gmail.com
- **Phone**: +91 99458 76774
- **LinkedIn**: https://linkedin.com/in/akshay-kumar-a-r
- **GitHub**: https://github.com/akshaykumarar

## Open To

Product Manager and AI/SaaS roles — India or US, remote or hybrid. Open to consulting engagements.