EXPERIENCE & LEADERSHIP

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An engineer’s foundation. A product leader’s responsibility.

Thaman Muthappa M N

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Summary

First PM at VectorShift (YC S23), an enterprise AI platform serving 100K+ users and private equity clients managing $15B+ in assets. Built the core products behind the company’s pivot to enterprise financial services as an engineer, then formalized the product function as its first PM.

Experience

VectorShift (YC S23)

Remote
Jul 2025 – Present
  • Product Manager Apr 2026 – Present
  • Software Engineer Jul 2025 – Apr 2026
  • Became the company’s first PM and built the product function from scratch. Two PMs now work under me, and the roadmap for a ~20-person engineering, QA, and design org runs through us, with 3 new products in flight.
  • Built Portfolio Engine, the system of record for 100+ portfolio companies and 10,000+ transactions. Every number traces back to the document it came from, so there is nothing left to reconcile at quarter end and the quarterly close dropped from weeks to days.
  • Added conversational exit modeling on top of it, so an investor can ask what gets a fund to 2.0x instead of rebuilding the model in Excel. Over 1,000 scenarios have run this way without touching the underlying ledger.
  • Built Deal Intelligence, which breaks an investment thesis into linked claims, risks, and initiatives rather than leaving it in a static memo, and designed the agentic layer that reasons across every deal the fund holds to argue for or against a move. Thousands of initiatives have been proposed and amended through it.
  • Rebuilt permissions as role-based access control (RBAC) mapped to the 5 personas who actually use the platform, instead of a generic admin/member split. That is what finally let enterprise accounts share work and onboard without hand-holding.

Infra.Market

Bengaluru
Dec 2023 – Jul 2025
  • Software Engineer I Jul 2024 – Jul 2025
  • Software Developer Intern Dec 2023 – Jul 2024
  • Built Photon Studio end-to-end: ran user interviews with store managers, wrote the product specs, led the launch, and ran post-launch feedback cycles that shaped the roadmap.
  • Built a real-time kitchen visualisation tool that cut design cycles from 4–5 client visits to 1–2, shortening the sales loop and improving conversion.
  • Owned development on Photon, an operations platform deployed across 30+ retail stores; surfaced and prioritised workflow gaps directly with store managers.

Entrepreneurship & leadership

Thal.E

Bengaluru
May – Dec 2023
  • Founding Product Lead

Led a 20-member team to launch a food-ordering and queue-management platform across 3 campus canteens at Christ University, owning the full lifecycle through launch; reached 1,000+ daily active users and 2,000+ monthly orders, and managed vendor partnerships, operations, and investor pitches across the full 0-to-1 arc.

CodeChef VIT

Dec 2020 – Oct 2023
  • Chairperson

Led a 150-member technical community for 3 years; secured ₹3,00,000+ in sponsorships for DevSoc (1,500+ participants).

Education

VIT

2020 – 2024
  • B.Tech, Computer Science

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) · CGPA 8.71/10

Skills

Product
Product Strategy · 0-to-1 Development · Roadmap Prioritisation · Product Discovery & Customer Interviews · PRDs · Product Analytics · Enterprise SaaS
Technical
React · Node.js · Go · Python · SQL · Figma · Linear · Mixpanel · PostHog
Domain
Agentic & AI/ML Products · Private Equity & Financial Services · B2B SaaS · Workflow Automation

Achievements

  • Top 70 globally on Unstop
  • Youngest-cohort delegate, HPAIR
  • Finalist, Smart India Hackathon 2022
  • 2nd, DevJams ’21

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