
Varun Ungurala
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Toptal member since November 26, 2025
Varun is an AI-focused product manager with hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems, including RAG pipelines, multi-model orchestration, and agentic workflows. He has led production platforms using multiple LLM models via API-first architectures, balancing latency cost and quality. Varun excels at translating ambiguous problems into scalable AI systems, working closely with engineering end-to-end.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- AI Agents
- AI Product Strategy
- APIs
- Agentic AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Product Owner
- ReAct Agents
- Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG)
Work Experience
Founder
Self Employed
- Built Bolkar.app, an AI platform that converts user needs into functional apps in seconds, reducing time from idea to usable output by over 90%.
- Led development of a voice-first interface in Bolkar, enabling users to describe needs naturally and generate usable applications without technical effort.
- Built KompareAI.com, a multi-LLM comparison platform, improving model selection speed by over 50% through side-by-side evaluation.
- Implemented LLM orchestration across OpenAI, Claude, Groq, and Mistral via API-driven architecture for dynamic model routing.
- Designed scalable API frameworks for LLM integration, enabling rapid addition of new models and features without breaking existing flows.
- Developed agentic workflows that decomposed user goals into multi-step actions, enabling autonomous task execution through LLM reasoning, tool usage, and contextual decision-making.
- Built RAG pipelines using structured chunking embeddings and metadata, improving response accuracy and reducing hallucinations.
- Developed agentic workflows that converted user intent into multi-step actions using API-based tool integrations.
- Defined and tracked metrics such as token usage latency and API performance, enabling optimization and usage-based billing.
Senior Product Manager
Intellect Design Arena
- Built an enterprise-grade no-code AI platform that enabled customers to create conversational agents, automation workflows, and multi-agent systems using LLMs, RAG, and ReAct templates.
- Delivered over $8 million in client value by deploying AI-driven workflow automation and decision intelligence across large BFSI organizations.
- Led a cross-functional team of 6 product members and 110+ engineers, architects, ML/LLM specialists, UX, DevOps, sales, and customer success professionals to ship complex AI platform features.
- Defined the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and prioritization process for AI platform components, including knowledge base, workflow engine, ML studio, and LLM observability.
- Implemented comprehensive LLM benchmarking (Eval) frameworks that automated evaluation across accuracy, latency, and cost metrics.
- Strengthened AI security by introducing PII detection, toxicity filters, prompt-injection safeguards, and model sensitivity checks aligned with ethical AI standards.
- Operationalized LLM agents at scale by establishing lineage tracking, response auditing, references validation, and observability.
- Managed the full lifecycle of ML models—annotation, training, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring—through a unified ML Studio built for enterprise teams.
- Collaborated with global stakeholders across engineering, security, legal, infrastructure, and marketing to deliver compliant, scalable, and market-ready AI capabilities.
Senior Advisor/Product Consultant
Dell
- Defined product roadmap, OGSM, OKR, KPIs, and communicated with stakeholders in North & South America.
- Translated product roadmaps and feature requests into workflow diagrams, user stories, acceptance criteria, and other suitable artifacts.
- Collaborated with security, architecture, engineering, support, program, and infrastructure partners in coordinating delivery of complex, multi-year initiatives.
- Reviewed incidents regularly to understand the root cause and explore permanent fixes with engineering and infrastructure teams.
- Provided regular updates to leadership, escalating items when needed, but with presence and relationships to identify and resolve most issues independently.
Founder
Ungurala Solutions
- Managed the concept to launch of the SaaS product, enabling real-time monitoring of data backed by artificial intelligence.
- Developed NLP, CNN, and TensorFlow models to improve personalized feed.
- Understand production and engineering issues and prioritize tasks based on product requirements.
- Defined metrics and funnels that track and monitor the performance of the product, the quality of data, and the overall health of the business.
- Designed marketing campaigns based on the product features and collaborated with educational institutions.
- Identified opportunities based on data, communicated with partners and vendors, and negotiated deals.
Scientist
ABB
- Involved in development of world’s 1st High Voltage 525 KV and 640 kV XLPE DC cable and accessories.
- Conducted electrical and thermal analysis and used statistical techniques for hypothesis testing.
- Decreased production cost by 25% by design optimization and communicated research findings to business units in Sweden.
Project History
Bolkar.app
https://bolkar.app- **90% ** — Reduction in Time from Idea to App
- **60% ** — Increase in User Task Completion Rate
- 40% — Reduction in Input Friction (Voice vs Text)
Users faced difficulties in transforming ideas into usable apps due to technical complexity. Existing tools required structured input, hindering accessibility for non-technical users, while multilingual users experienced friction in expressing intent clearly. Building a real-time AI generation system with reliability and usability posed additional challenges.
I designed a voice-first GenAI system that allows users to convert natural language into functional apps instantly. I developed an LLM orchestration layer to interpret user intent and generate structured outputs. Agentic workflows were implemented to break down user needs into executable steps. The system was equipped with multilingual support and a simplified UX for a zero learning curve. Feedback loops and iteration mechanisms were added to enhance output quality over time.
Reduced the time from idea to app, enabling near-instant app creation. Improved accessibility for non-technical and multilingual users, and set up a new interaction model for AI-driven app generation, leading to increased engagement and repeat usage.
Kompare AI
https://youtu.be/8eAEeQBnR48- 50% — Faster AI Model Selection
- 30% — Reduction in AI Usage Cost
- 90% — Improvement in Output Evaluation Confidence
Teams faced difficulties in efficiently comparing outputs across multiple LLMs, leading to delays and inconsistent evaluations. There was a lack of visibility into cost, latency, and performance metrics, making it challenging to select the right model for specific use cases.
I built a multi-LLM comparison platform allowing for side-by-side output evaluation. The solution included API-based orchestration across OpenAI, Claude, Groq, and Mistral. I designed workflows to facilitate prompt testing, response comparison, and evaluation. Usage tracking was added for insights into cost, latency, and performance. The architecture was made extensible to support new models and features.
Reduced time spent on model evaluation and decision-making, improved confidence in selecting the right LLM for each task, and enabled cost optimization through better model visibility. Increased productivity for teams working with multiple AI models.
PurpleFabric.ai - Enterprise AI Platform
https://purplefabric.ai/solutions/- 70% — Reduction in Manual Effort
- **92% ** — Accuracy of Retrieved Insight
- 50% — Faster Decision-making
• The client manually processed thousands of reports, tables, and charts, leading to delays and inconsistent insights.
• Extracting meaningful information from mixed-content documents caused high analyst effort and errors.
• Manual review slowed decision-making.
• Integrating AI agents was difficult due to security, access control, and scalability concerns.
• Analyzed workflows to identify high-effort tasks and define use cases like corporate intelligence and ESG tracking.
• Built a flexible GenAI platform with RAG pipelines, embeddings, and metadata enrichment.
• Created multi-agent React workflows for automated document analysis, reasoning, and structured output.
• Implemented LLM benchmarking, similarity scoring, and re-ranking for accuracy and reliability.
• Deployed solutions with observability, access control, and enterprise-grade security to enable scalable production-ready use.
Freed analysts from manual work, accelerated decision-making, improved AI accuracy and consistency, enabled scalable deployment without extra headcount, and ensured traceable, compliant outputs for reliable insights.
Complaints Investegator
https://purplefabric.ai/solutions/complaints-investigator/- 95% — Improved Precision in Complaint Categorization
- $8 Million — Yearly Savings in Operational and Settlement Costs
- 60% — Faster Complaint Review through AI Automation
- 40% — Increased Analyst Capacity via Automated Evidence Extraction
Manual complaint handling at financial institutions was slow, error-prone, and costly. There was regulatory risk, reputation liability, and a high operational burden due to undisclosed fees, service issues, and commission disputes. Additionally, case handlers were overburdened, which slowed resolution and reduced customer satisfaction.
I developed a multi-agent AI system to ingest complaint data, analyze cases in accordance with internal policies and external regulations, and automate investigations. It was integrated with existing systems via APIs, enabling scalable, compliant, and efficient case handling. This enabled auditors to trace decision-making, ensuring full audit ability, lineage, and explainability.
We enabled analysts to focus on high-value investigations instead of manual data gathering, improved audit readiness with clear reasoning, and reduced operational bottlenecks. We allowed the team to scale investigations without increasing headcount.
ESG Compliance Analysis with RAG
https://purplefabric.ai/solutions/scf-esg-agent/- 40% — Reduction in Analyst Research Time
- $2 Millon — Yearly Savings
The client tracked over 8,000 companies for ESG compliance, and analysts manually downloaded reports and read dense text, charts, and tables. The process was slow, error-prone, and required large analyst teams. There was a high risk of missing insights and delayed compliance reporting.
I developed an AI workflow to crawl, filter, and process thousands of reports automatically. I chunked documents, added metadata, and stored them in a vector DB. I also solved extraction from charts, tables, and image-heavy pages, adding an RAG agent with similarity scoring, re-ranking, and reference lineage.
I reduced analyst workload and significantly sped up ESG research, achieving 90% accuracy with metadata enrichment and providing traceable answers. I enabled scalable processing without adding headcount and provided audit-ready responses.
Closet Organizer
- 40% — Daily App Usage Boost
- 55% — Manual Tagging Time Reduction
- 30% — Increase in Conversions
- 45% — Return Users
Users struggled to decide what to wear and how to style existing clothes. They had no organized way to track their wardrobe, no personalized fashion recommendations, and no easy method to discover what items they were missing. Retail brands also lacked insight into user preferences, leading to low personalization and poor conversion rates.
I built an AI-powered mobile app that allows users to upload photos of their clothes, automatically classifying items using CNN models, and analyzing color, pattern, and style preferences. I designed a personalized recommendation engine that matched outfits, suggested new items based on wardrobe gaps, and generated a feed of influencers and celebrities for inspiration. I also added a digital closet, a QR code import system, and a virtual try-on experience for seamless engagement.
I enabled users to make better styling decisions, reduced wardrobe confusion, and improved discoverability. I provided valuable insights to brands about user preferences, unlocking more targeted marketing and higher conversion rates.
Education
Master's Degree in Sensors and Actuators
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli - Tiruchirappalli, India
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad - Hyderabad, India
Certifications
Advanced Certification in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad
2015 Data Mining and Analytics
Indian Institute of Technology
Skills
Tools
Jira, Atlassian Suite, Microsoft Power BI, Slack
Paradigms
User Testing, Agile, Agile Product Management, Scrum, Azure DevOps
Industry Expertise
Insurance
Platforms
webOS
Other
Roadmaps, AI Product Strategy, User Stories, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Databases, Microsoft Teams, Large Language Models (LLMs), Workflow, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Analysis, Feature Planning, Product Roadmaps, Product Ownership, Feature Analysis, Product Owner, Prompt Engineering, Product Management, Agile Product Delivery, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Business Intelligence (BI), Product Frameworks, Execution, AI Agents, Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning, Product Management, Product Development, Agentic AI, APIs, Mobile App Testing, Mobile Applications, Technical Product Management, Data Governance, Epic, Technical Requirements, Research, Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), Machine Learning, A/B Testing, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), AI Agents, ReAct Agents, Android, Sensitivity Analysis, PI Planning, Backlog Management, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Documentation, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Software Implementation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, JavaScript, Underwriting, Insurance Broking, Prime Brokerage, Sensors & Actuators, Patents, Engineering, New Products, Data Mining, Analytics, Business Requirements, Data Lineage, Evaluation, Benchmarking, Aha!, Legacy Software, iOS, Data Analytics, Numerical Simulations, Web, LangChain, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Python, Python, RAG Systems, App UX, Voice, Mobile, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), AI Marketing, Web UI, Next.js, Rust
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