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Open to APM roles · Summer 2025

Building AI-first products
that users actually love.

I'm Nalini K — an MCA student & aspiring Associate Product Manager. I bridge AI, full-stack engineering, and user research to ship products that move metrics.

12+
Projects Shipped
AARRR · RICE
Frameworks Used
AI · Full-Stack
Focus Areas
APM · PM Intern
Open to

About

A PM who can prototype the thing before writing a PRD.

I'm an MCA student at Chandigarh University with a focus on Full Stack Development, AI, and Product Management. I don't just write specs — I ship the prototype, run the user interview, and look at the funnel.

My PM toolkit: AARRR for funnel thinking, RICE for prioritization, JTBD for problem framing, and HEART for measuring success. I pair those with hands-on work in Python, React, Node.js, and the LLM stack.

Target companies: Google, Microsoft, Flipkart, Amazon, Swiggy — and ambitious early-stage startups where product thinking ships fast.

User ResearchA/B TestingRoadmappingSQLPythonReactNode.jsLLMsFigmaMixpanelNotionLinear

Product Skills

A full PM toolkit, from discovery to launch.

Product Strategy

  • Product Roadmaps
  • OKRs & North Star Metric
  • Market Sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM)
  • Competitive Analysis

Frameworks I Live By

  • AARRR (Pirate Metrics)
  • RICE Prioritization
  • JTBD (Jobs To Be Done)
  • HEART (Google's UX)

User Research

  • User Interviews
  • Usability Testing
  • Persona Development
  • Journey Mapping

Analytics & Experimentation

  • A/B Testing
  • Funnel & Cohort Analysis
  • SQL for Product
  • Mixpanel & Amplitude

Technical Skills

  • Python · Java · JavaScript
  • React · Node.js · Next.js
  • PostgreSQL · MongoDB
  • REST APIs · LLMs

AI Product Work

  • Prompt Engineering
  • RAG Pipelines
  • Vector Search (Pinecone)
  • Model Evaluation

Product Dashboard

How I think about product metrics.

A live-style snapshot of the kind of dashboard I build to track product health — AARRR funnel, HEART scorecard, and user journey map.

Active Users (WAU)
0
+18.2% vs last week
Activation Rate
0%
+12.4% vs last week
D7 Retention
0%
+6.1% vs last week
NPS Score
0
+9 pts vs last week

AARRR Funnel

Acquisition → Activation → Retention → Referral → Revenue

Visited10,000
Signed Up4,200
Activated2,688
Retained (D7)1,130

User Journey Map

From first touch to advocate

  1. 1
    Discover
    Lands on homepage from organic or referral
  2. 2
    Sign Up
    OAuth in under 30s
  3. 3
    Aha Moment
    First AI-generated resume score
  4. 4
    Habit
    Returns to iterate based on feedback
  5. 5
    Advocate
    Shares score publicly → referral loop

Featured Projects

AI + full-stack products I've shipped end-to-end.

92% accuracy

ResumeAI — AI Resume Screener

Full-stack AI product that scores resumes against job descriptions. Built the React + FastAPI MVP, designed the prompt chain, and ran the eval pipeline.

PythonFastAPIReactOpenAIPostgreSQL
4.8★ rating

StudyBuddy — EdTech Platform

AI study companion with spaced-repetition flashcards. Owned the product spec, ran 20+ user interviews, and shipped the MVP to 500+ students.

Next.jsNode.jsMongoDBLLM
3x WAU lift

EcoTrack — Carbon Footprint App

Mobile-first web app helping users track and reduce their carbon footprint. Designed the gamification system that drove 3x weekly active usage.

React NativeFirebaseD3.js

Product Case Studies

From problem framing to measurable outcome.

Product Lead (Student Project)

StudyBuddy

Framework: JTBD
Problem

College students cram the night before exams, then forget 70% within a week. Existing flashcard apps were clunky and ignored spaced-repetition.

Approach

Ran 20+ user interviews. Built a JTBD statement: 'When I'm prepping for an exam, I want to retain key concepts without re-reading, so I can walk in confident.'

Outcome

Shipped an MVP to 500+ students. 4.8★ rating. 62% D7 retention — 2x the category benchmark.

Founder / PM

ResumeAI

Framework: AARRR
Problem

Recruiters spend 7s on a resume. Job seekers don't know why they get rejected. No transparent feedback loop.

Approach

Used AARRR to identify Acquisition → Activation as the biggest drop-off. Prototyped a 3-screen onboarding flow and A/B tested it.

Outcome

Activation rate +38%. 92% LLM-judge agreement with recruiter feedback on 200-sample eval set.

Product Manager

EcoTrack

Framework: HEART
Problem

Users who track carbon footprint drop off after day 3. The product felt like homework, not a habit.

Approach

Mapped the user journey, identified the 'Aha moment' on day 5, and rebuilt the home screen around a daily streak + leaderboard.

Outcome

WAU/MAU rose from 12% → 34%. Streak length became our North Star Metric.

Experience

Where I've shipped, learned, and measured.

Product Management Intern

Chandigarh University Tech Incubator
2024 — Present
  • Owned the roadmap for an internal AI tutoring tool used by 800+ students
  • Ran 15+ user interviews, wrote 3 PRDs, and partnered with 2 engineers to ship the MVP
  • Defined HEART metrics and built a Mixpanel dashboard for weekly product reviews

Full-Stack Developer Intern

Dotsquares Technologies
Summer 2024
  • Shipped 4 production features in React + Node.js for a B2B SaaS client
  • Reduced p95 page load from 3.2s → 1.4s via code-splitting and image optimization
  • Wrote internal docs on our API design — still used by new joiners

Open-Source Contributor

GitHub · Various
2023 — Present
  • Contributed to 6 OSS projects in Python and TypeScript
  • Maintainer of a small LLM-eval library (~300 stars)

Certifications

Always learning, always shipping.

Coursera · 2024
Google Project Management
LinkedIn Learning · 2024
Product Management Fundamentals
Coursera · 2024
IBM Data Science Professional
AWS · 2024
AWS Cloud Practitioner
DeepLearning.AI · 2023
Deep Learning Specialization
Coursera · 2023
Google UX Design

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Let's build something worth shipping.

Open to APM, PM Intern, and Product-focused engineering roles. Happy to chat about product, AI, or why JTBD beats feature lists every time.