
Piyush Agrawal
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Pleasanton, CA, United States
Toptal member since October 7, 2019
Piyush is a Stanford and IIT graduate recognized by MIT Review, Microsoft, and Deloitte for innovation in AI and SaaS. As an AI product manager and CTO, he blends technical depth with strategic vision to build enterprise-grade SaaS products and intelligent automation systems. With 15+ years of experience, he has led cross-functional teams to launch scalable AI-powered platforms, driving business growth, efficiency, and exceptional user experiences across industries.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- A/B Testing
- Artificial Intelligence Product Manager
- Data Product Manager
- Growth
- Marketing Automation
- Mixpanel
- Product Management
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Work Experience
Interim Head of Product
Auquan
- Led product strategy and roadmap for an agentic AI platform serving 70+ enterprise customers across institutional finance, navigating complex procurement, security reviews, and compliance requirements of regulated financial institutions.
- Drove enterprise deployment decisions for private/VPC cloud configurations, audit trail requirements, and data residency constraints, accelerating time-to-production for new accounts at Tier 1 financial institutions.
- Partnered with sales and solutions engineering teams to land and expand enterprise accounts, translating workflows such as credit memos, portfolio monitoring, and LP reporting into platform capabilities.
- Designed and prototyped agentic workflows using LangGraph and LLM orchestration frameworks to validate product concepts before engineering investment.
- Evaluated and benchmarked LLM performance across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) for finance-specific tasks, informing model selection and prompt engineering standards across the platform.
- Built internal proof-of-concepts using RAG pipelines and structured document extraction to accelerate enterprise onboarding and reduce time-to-value for new workflows.
- Shipped prototypes and internal tools independently using AI-assisted development workflows, leveraging Claude Code for coding and AI-native tools for design and specifications, thereby reducing reliance on engineering bandwidth.
Co-founder & Chief Product & Technology Officer
Galvix
- Led AI product management and technical architecture for Galvix, designing intelligent automation systems using LLMs, RAG pipelines, and rule-based reasoning to simplify complex compliance workflows.
- Architected a modular, event-driven SaaS platform integrating with ERP and billing systems (NetSuite, QuickBooks, Stripe, Shopify) through secure REST APIs and asynchronous processing.
- Built an AI content generation and programmatic SEO engine combining structured tax data with generative models to create 100,000+ high-ranking pages, driving 100× traffic growth.
- Designed and implemented AI copilots and internal agents for onboarding, anomaly detection, and support automation, leveraging LLMs, semantic search, and retrieval-based workflows.
- Scaled multi-environment cloud infrastructure with containerized deployments, observability pipelines, and CI/CD automation to ensure resilience, security, and continuous delivery.
Data and Product Growth Consultant
- Led data-driven experimentation using internal analytics pipelines and A/B testing frameworks, optimizing key engagement and retention metrics across Reddit’s 300+ million MAUs.
- Collaborated with data engineers and analysts to design event instrumentation and cohort tracking, improving funnel visibility for search, recommendations, and content discovery.
- Spearheaded development of a safe search feature leveraging machine learning classifiers and NLP-based content tagging to reduce harmful or NSFW exposure, increasing successful searches by 12%.
- Defined north-star metrics and standardized dashboards using tools like BigQuery, Amplitude, and internal experimentation platforms, enabling teams to iterate rapidly on growth hypotheses.
- Partnered with product, trust & safety, and ML teams to operationalize automated content moderation signals, improving response times to potentially harmful content by over 40%.
Chief Product Officer
RightShip
- Led product vision and roadmap for RightShip’s AI-powered safety and sustainability data platform, used by Fortune 500 logistics and energy clients.
- Partnered with data science and ML teams to launch the next-generation Safety Score Model, leveraging predictive analytics and supervised learning pipelines.
- Delivered the Maritime Emissions Portal, integrating IoT, satellite, and emissions datasets into actionable ESG intelligence dashboards.
- Scaled and mentored a cross-functional team of 15+ PMs, UX, and ML engineers across global hubs; established product experimentation and agile delivery practices.
- Defined enterprise SaaS metrics, OKRs, and user-centric frameworks aligning commercial, data, and regulatory teams toward measurable product outcomes.
Chief Product Officer
Janio
- Built Janio’s first AI-enabled logistics SaaS connecting fragmented carriers and eCommerce players across Southeast Asia through unified APIs and predictive routing.
- Spearheaded the design of the digital freight forwarding platform, implementing data-driven shipment optimization and ETA forecasting models.
- Introduced product management best practices—OKRs, roadmap governance, customer feedback loops, and data-backed prioritization—during hyper-growth from 30 to 120 employees.
- Led integrations with top regional eCommerce partners (Bukalapak, Zilingo, Under Armour), expanding cross-border shipping capabilities.
- Defined scalable product architecture and analytics stack enabling rapid experimentation, service reliability, and continuous insight generation.
Head of Product
Rivigo
- Researched the market for warehouse and fulfillment center automation solutions and identified several product-and-business opportunities for Rivigo to capitalize on.
- Led the conceptualization, development, and launch of a mobile app-based workflow-optimization product that improved the efficiency of 1,000+ associates working in 50+ distribution centers across India by more than 25%.
- Conceptualized a product for fuel refilling optimization for a fleet of more than 4,000 trucks by leveraging real-time fuel pricing information across various cities.
- Kickstarted the transition of Rivigo's biggest innovation (Relay Trucking) from a type of proprietary in-house technology to a stand-alone revenue-generating SaaS product.
Co-founder | Head of Product
SuperProfs
- Founded SuperProfs with the vision of connecting India's top professors for professional exams with millions of students and professionals.
- Launched several successful products, including a native mobile learning app used by 1.5+ million monthly active users, used by professors to manage the classrooms, and an AI/computer vision powered fully automated lecture capturing system.
- Grew the business to $1+ million ARR, 500+ top professors, 1,000+ online courses, and 60 minutes/day user engagement through several product-led initiatives (including programmatic SEO, fully automated omnichannel engagement campaigns, referral loops, and more).
- Built and led a team of 25 developers, three product managers, two QAs, one UI/UX expert, 100 inside sales and operations executives, and five digital marketers.
- Developed the core technology to make streaming HD-quality videos possible at extremely low internet speeds (100 Kbps) and built a recurring subscription-based SaaS product for training and education institutes.
- Bootstrapped the business without external funding to about $200,000 in revenue, later raising an angel round of funding from the Indian Angel Network.
- Enabled about 50 top education and training institutes to expand their reach to more than 100,000 remote students and generating more than $8 million in additional revenues.
Project Lead | Research Associate
Stanford University
- Researched the market and competition to develop a business plan for a lecture capture system at Stanford University.
- Interviewed users and customers to generate user stories, product designs, and specifications, and led a team of developers to launch the MVP.
- Designed the world's first SaaS-based solution for viewing ultra-high-resolution videos with interactive features like pan/tilt/zoom (similar to Google Maps) on low-bandwidth networks.
- Bootstrapped the ClassX project, which became a key part of Stanford University's lecture capture solution.
- Published several technical papers and reports jointly with other team members.
Research Intern
Microsoft
- Designed and implemented SixthSense, an RFID-based enterprise intelligence system that fused real-world sensor data with enterprise applications to infer relationships between people, objects, and spaces.
- Collaborated with research and product engineering teams to build context-aware computing prototypes combining computer vision, ML models, and sensor fusion for intelligent workplace automation.
- Filed a U.S. patent jointly with Microsoft for context inference algorithms leveraging data streams from RFID sensors, calendars, and user presence systems.
- Contributed to early innovations in AI-driven enterprise systems, influencing Microsoft’s internal frameworks for pervasive computing and smart environments.
- Delivered system prototypes using C#, BizTalk RFID, SQL Server, and .NET, demonstrating significant efficiency improvements in enterprise asset tracking and collaboration.
Research Intern
Deutsche Telekom
- Developed a machine learning–based optimization system to enable simultaneous use of multiple access networks (wired, cellular, Wi-Fi), dynamically routing multimedia traffic based on bandwidth, latency, and QoS predictions.
- Designed and implemented predictive models to determine optimal routing paths and resource allocation in heterogeneous network environments, improving throughput and reliability.
- Demonstrated 45% performance gain over conventional routing methods through simulations using NS-2 and Python-based ML prototypes.
- Collaborated with senior researchers to publish results and contribute to Deutsche Telekom’s R&D on next-generation communication protocols.
- Delivered reproducible simulation frameworks using C++, Python, Perl, and TCL, later adopted by internal network research teams for experimentation.
Engineering Intern
Yahoo!
- Designed and implemented an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to automatically extract structured data (prices, specs, reviews) from unstructured HTML pages across large-scale eCommerce sites.
- Applied natural language processing (NLP) and clustering techniques to identify product entities and attributes without labeled training data, reducing manual data-cleaning efforts by over 90%.
- Demonstrated a 98% improvement in data extraction efficiency over traditional rule-based methods, leading to its adoption within Yahoo’s internal content systems.
- Contributed to the development of automated data pipelines integrating extracted entities into Yahoo Shopping’s structured catalog, improving search and recommendation accuracy.
- Collaborated with product and engineering teams to design scalable systems for real-time data ingestion and transformation across multiple product verticals.
Project History
AI-driven Tax Automation Platform
- 35% — Lower Error Rates
- 3X — Faster Onboarding for New Integrations
- 60% Reduction — In time-to-file
• Manual compliance reviews, inconsistent ERP data mapping, and frequent edge-case errors slowed scalability.
• Needed intelligent automation that could adapt to dynamic tax rule changes and multi-system dependencies.
• Mapped end-to-end workflows to identify automation opportunities.
• Designed modular microservices and event-driven pipelines for scale.
• Integrated LLMs + RAG models for anomaly detection and support copilots.
• Created explainable AI layers and audit logs to ensure trust and compliance.
• Achieved enterprise-grade automation and accuracy benchmarks.
• Improved customer satisfaction (NPS +40%) and retention.
• Established Galvix as a credible, AI-first alternative to legacy compliance systems.
Programmatic SEO & AI Content Generation Engine
- 100X — Increase in Organic Traffic
- 10,000+ — Pages Generated Programmatically Using Structured Data
- 90+ — Lighthouse SEO Score
• Galvix had limited inbound visibility and needed scale without manual content ops.
• Tax data complexity made consistent metadata and localization difficult.
• Tax data kept changing with new rules, content had to be continuously updated to keep it fresh and accurate.
• Designed a data-to-content pipeline combining tax data, NLP models, and metadata generators.
• Implemented LLM-based summarization, FAQ synthesis, and schema markup automation.
• Built validation scripts, content scoring, and sitemap auto-generation workflows.
• Became a top-ranking site in hundreds of niche tax queries.
• Reduced CAC dramatically through organic inbound growth.
• Created an extensible AI-driven SEO system adaptable across verticals.
Data-driven Growth and Safety Experimentation Platform
- 18% — Improvement in Weekly User Retention
- 300+ Million — MAUs Positively Impacted via Safer Search
- 40% — Reduction in Harmful Content Exposure
• Reddit’s massive user base required scalable experimentation and data-driven decisions to enhance engagement while minimizing exposure to harmful or NSFW content.
• Needed faster insights and better instrumentation to optimize user safety and search experience.
• Designed and ran A/B experiments using internal frameworks across web and mobile, defining north-star metrics for retention and engagement.
• Partnered with ML engineers to deploy NLP-based content classifiers and automated Safe Search filters.
• Created end-to-end event pipelines for funnel visibility, integrating BigQuery, Amplitude, and internal data APIs.
• Built governance around experiment analysis, ensuring statistically sound decisions.
• Improved platform-wide safety and trust while maintaining engagement growth.
• Proved ability to merge AI, behavioral analytics, and product design to drive measurable impact at scale.
AI-enabled Digital Freight and Logistics Platform
- 30% — Reduction in Shipment Processing Times
- 25% — Increased Logistics Throughput and Partner Satisfaction
• Janio operated in a fragmented logistics ecosystem across Southeast Asia with minimal data visibility, manual routing, and disconnected carrier systems.
• Needed a scalable, unified SaaS platform to integrate partners and automate fulfillment workflows.
• Built Janio’s first AI-driven digital freight platform, using predictive modeling for routing and demand forecasting.
• Defined core product architecture, APIs, and analytics stack supporting multi-country logistics orchestration.
• Introduced product management best practices—OKRs, roadmap governance, feedback loops, and Agile delivery.
• Led partnerships with top eCommerce players (e.g., Bukalapak, Zilingo, Under Armour) and built robust integrations.
• Transformed Janio into a data-driven cross-border eCommerce logistics platform, reducing cost-to-deliver and increasing visibility.
• Established scalable architecture supporting future ML routing and real-time optimization.
SixthSense | RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence System at Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/sixthsense-rfid-based-enterprise-intelligence/Led the product design and implementation of a US patent winning enterprise intelligence system at Microsoft.
I led the product design and implementation of SixthSense, an RFID-based enterprise intelligence system at Microsoft.
This system combined mobility information obtained from RFID-based sensing with information from enterprise systems such as calendar and presence to automatically draw inferences about the association and interaction amongst people, objects, and workspaces. For instance, SixthSense was able to automatically distinguish between people and objects, learn the identities of people, and infer the ownership of objects by people.
Android-based Fully Automated Lecture Capture Solution
Built the world's smallest and most cost-effective, automated lecture capture solution—scaling to hundreds of classrooms.
As part of SuperProfs, a key challenge was digitizing the classroom content of our partner professors. We initially asked the professors to record their lectures at our state-of-the-art recording studios, but it became clear that this wouldn’t work. It’s an asset-heavy model, and it wouldn’t scale as we grew.
We needed an extremely easy-to-use, fully automated lecture capturing solution that worked with the existing infrastructure of Indian classrooms. Indian classrooms are often plagued by poor internet connectivity, a lack of a consistent power supply, a lack of trained A/V technicians, and more. I came up with the idea of using off-the-shelf Android phones with high-resolution cameras for lecture recording.
With a team of four engineers and a designer, we built an Android app and a cloud-based admin system that could automatically start/stop the lecture recording on remote Android devices. We also implemented the capability to track the professor in the classroom as they moved around using computer vision and face recognition techniques.
This model enabled us to scale to hundreds of classrooms in an extremely cost-effective, yet robust manner—becoming a key selling point of SuperProfs platform for professors in India.
Design and Implementation of a Video-streaming Protocol for Heterogeneous Networks
https://web.stanford.edu/~bgirod/pdfs/Zhu_ACM_MM_07.pdfBuilt a video-streaming system that reduced packet loss by 45% and which won the ACM Multimedia award in Germany.
Tasks Accomplished
• Designed and implemented a video streaming protocol for wireless networks which reduced packet loss by 45% and improved received video quality by 2-10 decibels in PSNR.
• Presented this work at the ACM Multimedia conference in Germany and won the Best Student Paper Award.
Education
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur - Kanpur, India
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur - Kanpur, India
Skills
Tools
Claude, Zoom, Slack, Trello, Google Analytics, Asana, Tableau, Tableau Desktop Pro
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Agile, Azure DevOps, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), DevOps
Industry Expertise
Education Technology (Edtech), Logistics, New Business Ventures, Product Ideation
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Mixpanel
Other
Data Science Product Manager, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence Product Manager, eCommerce, Product Marketing, Data Analysis, Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise SaaS, Product Management, Product Owner, Android, Mobile Apps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Backlog Grooming, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Digital Marketing, SEO Marketing, Marketing Automation, Video on Demand (VOD), Video Streaming, SaaS Product Management, Product Roadmaps, Stakeholder Management, SaaS, Wireframe to Product, Development, Subscriptions, eCommerce Platforms, Strategic Planning & Execution, Business to Consumer (B2C), Edtech Design, A/B Testing, Growth Hacking, Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), Business Analysis, Process Analysis, Documentation, Workflow Diagrams, Agentic AI, AI Design, Agentic AI Systems, AI Programming, Technical Product Management, AI Agents, UX Design, AIOps, Digital Product Management, Product Coach, B2B Product Management, AI Adoption, AI Enablement, Executive Coaching, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Backlog Management, Project Management, Fintech, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), CRM, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CRM APIs, CRM Systems, WordPress, WordPress API, WordPress Plugins, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, SQL, SEO Tools, Content Strategy, Content Marketing, Data Analytics, Data Product Manager, Data Science, Dashboards, Data-driven Decision-making, Data Visualization, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Fundraising, Google Tag Manager, Metabase, Client Relations, Management Consulting, Revenue Modeling, Retail & Wholesale, Team Building, Business Strategy, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Data-driven Dashboards, Google BigQuery, Product Strategy, iOS, APIs, Product Growth, Growth, App Growth, B2B, Inbound Marketing, Programmatic Marketing, Google Cloud, AI Product Management, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Architecture, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Data Engineering, User Experience (UX), Data Management Platforms, AI Product Strategy, Internet of Things (IoT), Enterprise Intelligence Systems, Predictive Analytics, IT Systems Architecture, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Unsupervised Learning, Information Extraction, Cloud, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Integration, Dashboard Design, Data Reporting, Amplitude, Database Table Optimization
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