Akshay Kumar A R Profile

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Akshay Kumar A R

Product Manager, AI-Powered SaaS Strategy, Platform Growth, 0-to-1 Launches

B2B SaaS and AI Product Manager shipping 0-to-1 platforms and AI agents under real-world compliance constraints (SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

Focus

My Focus

About Akshay

7 Years of Experience Shipping Enterprise SaaS & AI Platforms

B2B SaaS and AI Product Manager with a proven track record of 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.

Integrations Shipped: 100+ Partners
SaaS Products Managed: 10+ Managed
Compliance Frameworks: SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR
Experience: 7+ Years
Key Focus: AI & Platform Growth
Location: Bengaluru, India
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History

Experience & Education

My Education

Generative AI Foundations Certificate

upGrad in collaboration with Microsoft | Certification

Focused on foundational LLM concepts, agentic design patterns, and application integrations.

Bachelors in Engineering

M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology | Aug 2015 - Jun 2019

Graduated with a GPA of 8.53. Specialized in engineering foundations, software development processes, and systems analysis.

My Experience

Product Consultant

Freelance | May 2025 - Present

  • Developed a Synthetic Data Generation Agent using GPT and n8n, enabling AI startups to overcome GDPR challenges and reducing data prep time by 80%.
  • Built end-to-end LLM fine-tuning pipelines, structured training data, and ran evaluation loops to reduce hallucination rates and validate quality.
  • Defined MVP scope, user stories, and GTM sequencing for founder teams, cutting average time-to-first-user from 12 weeks to 6.
  • Established agile SOPs and sprint cadences, improving sprint predictability from ~50% to 85% on-time delivery.
Product Manager

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

  • Shipped modular automation layer cutting operational overhead by 50% and onboarding time from 3 weeks to 4 days.
  • Owned order/transport modules, improved data retrieval speed by 30%, and eliminated SLA breaches.
  • Driven integrations with 100+ partners, accelerating release velocity by 50%.
  • Led ISO 27001/SOC 2 compliance streams, closing 12 critical control gaps and cutting security review cycles from 8 weeks to 3 weeks (100% audit success).
Product Analyst / Process Engineer

Algo Legal | Dec 2020 - Jun 2022

  • Structured discovery across 80+ attorney interviews, reducing support resolution time by 50%.
  • Owned market research and authored PRDs, accelerating feature development cycles by 50% under legal regulatory requirements.
  • Designed user feedback loops increasing research participation by 150% and reducing platform ownership costs by 15% through cost-benefit analysis.
Project Manager

Decabits Software | Aug 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Led 0-to-1 launch of Myanmar's first e-pharmacy platform with payment integrations, driving 100% revenue growth and 50% above-target adoption.
  • Spearheaded the US launch of MGR, a B2B fitness subscription platform, unlocking new revenue streams.
  • Streamlined communication across cross-functional teams, reducing project misalignment by 80%.

Skills

Core Skills

Product Management
Product Strategy Roadmap Ownership User Discovery & Research UI/UX Design Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) PRD Authoring Prioritization Frameworks A/B Testing GTM Strategy OKRs & KPIs Agile/Scrum
Compliance & Governance
SOC2 ISO 27001 GDPR Audit Readiness Data Privacy Regulated Environments
AI & Technical
LLM Integration Prompt Engineering & Versioning RAG Pipeline Design Agentic Workflow Orchestration Synthetic Data Generation API-First Platform Design AI Product Evaluation
Tools & Technologies
Mixpanel Clarity Figma Jira Notion ClickUp Linear Postman SQL Python Docker GitHub n8n Zapier Lovable Base44

Thinking

How I Think About Product & AI

0-to-1 AI Product Discovery

Problem-Solution Fit & MVP Scoping

Structuring discovery across user interviews to validate product-market fit. Designing product scopes and go-to-market sequencing for early-stage AI startups to cut time-to-first-user.

Compliance-First Architecture

SOC2 | ISO 27001 | GDPR

Shipping platforms within highly regulated enterprise compliance frameworks. Closing control gaps and implementing privacy-compliant workflows to shorten B2B security sales cycles.

Evaluating LLMs & Agents

RAG, Fine-Tuning & Evaluation

Building LLM-powered agentic workflows and fine-tuning pipelines. Designing structured evaluation loops to minimize hallucination rates and validate system outputs against domain benchmarks.

API-First & Platform Scale

Partner Integrations & Operations

Designing flexible API-first platform models. Coordinating integrations with 100+ partner systems and shipping automation layers to reduce operational overhead for high-volume customers.

Projects

My Projects

  • All Projects
  • AI Agents
  • Tools & Extensions
Autonomous Synthetic Data Engine

AI Agent

Problem: GDPR/privacy compliance constraints in production data prevented secure LLM fine-tuning.

Built: An agentic workflow using GPT + n8n for generating privacy-compliant synthetic datasets.

Outcome: Reduced data prep time by ~80% and enabled secure model training.

Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval Agent

Chatbot / RAG

Problem: Internal knowledge lookup was slow, driving up customer support ticket volumes.

Built: A RAG-based support agent retrieving context-aware answers from internal documentation bases.

Outcome: Reduced ticket volume and accelerated cross-team internal knowledge retrieval.

API Lens Chrome Extension

Chrome Extension

Problem: QA engineers lost significant time trace-debugging live API call sequences.

Built: A custom Chrome browser extension that visualizes live API call sequences in real-time.

Outcome: Reduced active debugging time for QA and development teams.

Contact

Let's Connect

Contact Info

Location:

Bengaluru, India

Call me:

+91 99458 76774

Mail me:

akshay.ar123@gmail.com

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Open to Opportunities

Open to Product Manager and AI/SaaS roles (India/US, remote or hybrid).

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