Chaitanya Kulkarni, CSM®, CSPO®
New York, USA +1-201-***-**** Website Blog ********************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/ck1102 Professional Summary
Entrepreneurial AI Product Manager with 4+ years experience working across startups & enterprises. Skilled in 0 to 1 AI product development, AI automation, rapid prototyping & cross-functional stakeholder alignment to deliver safe & scalable AI solutions. Professional Experience
Agentic AI Product Manager, New York - Self-employed ( Y Combinator F25 application Launch)May 2025 - Present
● Launched multi-agent AI fitness & wellness product using Agentic AI & real-time integration with fitness apps, wearable devices & tools like Slack, calendar & emails for real-time adaptation, onboarding 25+ regular users.
● Conducted customer interviews, prototyped UI & frontend, created automated workflows on make.com with OpenAI & other APIs, setting robust guardrails, evals, launching MVP in 3 weeks. Applied to Y combinator incubator F25 batch.
● Executed RAG & vector database storage to provide tailored guidance based on profile, increasing user satisfaction by 12%. Enterprise Architect Assistant, New York University, New York - Internship May 2024 – May 2025 NYU IT drives IT-business strategic alignment across NYU’s 25+ campuses and global teams, impacting 63,000+ students.Website
● Facilitated Agile ceremonies to identify pain points, mapping workflows & internal processes, built AI automation tools for report generation, classifying emails, automating repetitive tasks to save time, improving efficiency by 40%.
● Onboarded 250+ applications from 25 NYU schools, defined processes & built KPI dashboard on Tableau to track & visualize key metrics, optimized inventory to eliminate redundant applications, cutting cost by 25% & impacting 63,000 students. Product Analyst, HubSpire, New York, USA - Capstone Project Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 HubSpire delivers custom mobile & web app development, retail, data analytics, IoT, and cybersecurity solutions.Website
● Created user journeys & working prototype on Figma to prioritize feature development, enabling MVP launch in 2 months.
● Supported go-to-market(GTM) strategy with marketing, sales teams by creating presentations & guides for product launch. AI Product Manager - AI Products Program, Adagrad AI, Product website Pune, India Oct 2021 – Jul 2023 B2B/B2C AI product company with over 1100 Computer-vision Edge-AI deployments across US & India.Website
● Defined MVP scope & roadmap, working together with developers, QA, DevOps & deployment teams to develop & deploy an AI powered vehicle access control product, achieving market-high 95% accuracy & scaling to 300+ deployments.
● Created PRD, facilitated scrum ceremonies to align teams & implemented A/B & UAT testing to guide development of a mobile application for managing data & reduce setup time, improving engagement by 40%. Associate Product Manager - Gate-Guard, Adagrad AI, Product website Pune, India May 2020 – Oct 2021
● Developed business cases, identified product market-fit & for 3 ALPR tech based AI products used by 1M+ users daily.
● Led customer success, working with engineers, DevOps & deployment team to develop, test & ship new features, improving customer satisfaction by 25% in 1 month post MVP-launch. Skills
● Tools: Zapier, Make.com, LangChain, Figma, Lovable, Figma, Jira, Confluence, vector DBs, pinecone, Google Analytics.
● AI : LLM selection, prompt engineering, OpenAI APIs, conversational AI, guardrails, evals, multi agent orchestration. Certifications
● PMI x AI : Prompt engineering, Context engineering, Gen AI overview for PM, AI for optimizing workflows.
● Agile Product Delivery: CSM® (Scrum Master), CSPO® (Product Owner), PMBOK (PMI Methodology) Entrepreneurship & Leadership
● Co-founder : Managed 7 person team to make prototype of medical Ventilator during Covid Funding Pitch
● Co-founder : 40+ member FSAE team to develop F1-style cars, competed at FS Germany/Austria, Rank 1 India Education
New York University, New York, USA Sep 2023 – May 2025 Master of Science in Management of Technology - Projects Relevant Coursework : Product Management, AI workflow creation, GenAI driven Business strategies, Responsible/Ethical AI design. Pune University (SPPU), Pune, India Apr 2016 – May 2020 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering