Associate Product Manager
ShelterTechBuilding product experience while supporting technology designed around real community needs.
Product · Research · Systems
Hi, I’m Akriti.
Curious about people. Thoughtful about product.
Explore my work- 20+
- exploratory interviews in my product discovery case study
- 250+
- participants reached through Luddy Hackathon
- 24+
- resident assistants supervised across three semesters
Selected work
Evidence of how I think.
My work sits at the intersection of user understanding, analytical reasoning, and practical execution.
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Product case study · Instagram
View case study ↗Helping people find the posts they saved for later
Twenty-plus exploratory interviews, a prioritized natural-language search concept, an interactive prototype, and a DAU-focused measurement plan.
02
Systems case study · QuickBooks sandboxTurning card activity into verified accounting entries
A simulated transaction-to-ledger workflow with configurable mappings, exception routing, and 12 journals posted to and read back from a QuickBooks Online developer sandbox.
View project evidence ↗03
Applied research · NLPClassification research grounded in real language data
Co-authored and presented classification research published in the peer-reviewed IEEE QCE24 proceedings.
Read the IEEE proceedings ↗04
Finance Case StudyConnecting segment growth to operating profit
Three years of reported results, an editable Excel forecast, and interactive scenarios showing how growth and costs affect profitability.
Explore the model ↗05
Solution engineering · Working prototypeGetting support requests to the right team
An explainable triage demo comparing keyword rules with TF-IDF, including human review, a 24-case synthetic evaluation, and a solution walkthrough.
Try the demo and inspect the evidence ↗Experience
Different settings.
The same instinct to improve things.
Assistant Coordinator
Indiana University Residence LifeDirectly supervised teams of 12 each semester while leading staff operations, budgets, cross-functional coordination, and systems serving residential communities.
AI/ML Data Science Intern
Hyphenova NetworkBuilt and evaluated an audio transcription and summarization pipeline with a three-person team, iterating on model quality using stakeholder feedback.
Researcher
Indiana UniversityWorked on natural-language classification research contributing to an IEEE proceedings publication.
About me
I’m energized by work where technology meets people.
I completed my master’s degree in May 2026 and found product management through roles where I had to listen closely, create order from ambiguity, coordinate across teams, and take initiative without waiting for a perfect brief.
My analytical background helps me ask better questions. My leadership experience keeps me grounded in how decisions affect real people. I’m now building the product judgment to connect those strengths at scale.