Aditi Phadnis
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Aditi Phadnis
Product Manager - AI & Automation

Hello! I'm Aditi, an experienced Product Manager with a passion for leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Automation to build innovative and impactful solutions. My background spans across developing cutting-edge products that solve real-world problems, driving user engagement, and achieving business growth. I thrive in dynamic environments, bridging the gap between technology and user needs. Recently completed Associate Cloud Engineer Certification from Google.

B2B SaaS
Healthcare Tech
Agentic AI
Automation
Logistics
Machine Learning
Associate Cloud Engineer (GCP)
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My Resume
Discover my professional journey, skills, and achievements in product management, AI, and automation.

I have a comprehensive background in leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative AI and automation products. My resume provides a detailed overview of my experience and qualifications.

Key Skills

AI Product Strategy
Automation Solutions
Agile & Scrum
Roadmap Planning
User-Centric Design
Data Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Market Research
Machine Learning Concepts
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Project Portfolio

A selection of my work in AI and Automation product management.

AI-Powered Resume Analyzer for Technical Roles
AI-Powered Resume Analyzer for Technical Roles

Situation:

The HR department faced challenges in efficiently shortlisting candidates for technical roles, often lacking deep insights into specific technical skills mentioned in resumes. This led to longer screening times and potential oversight of qualified candidates.

Task:

To design and develop an AI-powered resume analyzer. The primary goal was to automate the initial screening process by accurately assessing the relevance of resumes against job descriptions, with a focus on extracting and validating technical skills.

My Role:

Product Manager. Led the conceptualization, development, and rollout of the AI resume analyzer, focusing on HR efficiency and improved candidate matching.

Key Actions:

  • Led the product strategy and development lifecycle for the resume analyzer.
  • Collaborated with HR stakeholders to define key requirements and pain points.
  • Designed a system to parse resumes (various formats like PDF, DOCX) and extract structured information.
  • Implemented NLP techniques to capture the semantic meaning of keywords in both job descriptions and resumes.
  • Developed a comparison engine to score resume relevance against specific job requirements, highlighting matching skills and experience.
  • Created an intuitive dashboard for HR to view analysis results, including skill match percentages and extracted key terms.

Result:

  • Significantly reduced the manual effort and time spent on initial resume screening.
  • Improved the quality of shortlisted candidates by providing HR with deeper insights into technical competencies.
  • Estimated time saving of 5-7 hours per recruiter per week, allowing them to focus on candidate engagement and interviews.
  • Increased consistency in the shortlisting process across the HR team.
AI
NLP
Resume Parsing
HR Tech
Recruitment Automation
Semantic Analysis
Skill Extraction
Machine Learning
Automation Reliability Engineering (ARE)
Automation Reliability Engineering (ARE)

Situation:

At Element5, automation is powered by RPA and Agentic AI. However, workflow failures and execution errors occasionally disrupted processes, creating dependency on engineering and DevOps teams for resolution.

Task:

My goal was to reduce the engineering overhead by enabling the support team to independently troubleshoot and resolve automation errors, ensuring faster response times and greater operational efficiency.

My Role:

Product Manager. Led the design and launch of the ARE platform, focusing on empowering support teams and reducing engineering overhead.

Key Actions:

I designed and launched Automation Reliability Engineering (ARE) — a platform purpose-built for support teams to take control of automation incident resolution. When an error occurs, ARE auto-generates a Freshdesk ticket with a direct link to the incident on ARE. The support user can:
  • Start, pause, or re-run the workflow
  • Modify workflow inputs
  • Access and analyze execution logs These features provided intuitive and effective tools for first-level resolution without engineering intervention.

Result:

ARE empowered support teams to manage and fix automation issues independently, significantly reducing the load on workflow and DevOps teams. This led to faster turnaround times and freed up technical resources, enabling them to focus on high-impact initiatives, including driving additional ARR activation.
RPA
Agentic AI
Automation
Reliability Engineering
Support Tools
Incident Resolution
DevOps Efficiency
Product Management
Social Media Addiction EDA
Social Media Addiction EDA

Situation:

Increasing concerns about social media addiction among students globally and its potential impact on their well-being and academic life.

Task:

To conduct an exploratory data analysis (EDA) on social media usage among students across various countries. The goal was to uncover patterns related to addiction, mental health, social relationships, and academic performance.

My Role:

Data Analyst. Conducted exploratory data analysis, visualized findings, and developed the Streamlit application to present the insights.

Key Actions:

  • Analyzed a dataset covering social media usage, addiction levels, time spent, preferred platforms, and demographic information of students.
  • Investigated correlations between usage patterns and self-reported mental health status (e.g., anxiety, depression).
  • Examined the relationship between social media habits and academic outcomes.
  • Visualized key findings using charts and graphs to highlight trends and insights.
  • Developed an interactive Streamlit application to present the analysis, focusing on how social media usage affects students across different countries, platforms, and academic performance metrics.

Result:

  • Balanced Demographics: The dataset shows a near-equal distribution of male and female students, mostly at the undergraduate level.
  • Top Platforms: Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook are the most used platforms, with Instagram showing the highest addiction scores.
  • Geographic Trends: India and the USA exhibit the highest average addiction levels, with consistent usage patterns across platforms.
  • Academic Impact: Around 64% of students feel social media negatively affects their academic performance.
  • Addiction Patterns: Relationship status and academic level show small variations in addiction, but platform choice strongly correlates with high addiction scores.
EDA
Data Analysis
Social Media
Student Health
Mental Health
Academic Impact
Streamlit
Python
Data Visualization
Simplifying Transaction Reprocessing for Workflow & Support Teams
Simplifying Transaction Reprocessing for Workflow & Support Teams

Situation:

The support and workflow teams had a slow, manual process to reprocess or stop transactions. They had to use Jenkins to pull large CSV files from S3, manually edit them in spreadsheets, re-upload them, and rerun Jenkins jobs. Each tenant’s data had to be handled separately to avoid mix-ups, and the whole process took 20–30 minutes per SKU.

Task:

As the Product Manager, my goal was to drastically reduce the time and errors in this process by building an intuitive UI that allowed teams to bulk edit or upload transaction states easily.

My Role:

Product Manager. Led the initiative from problem definition to rollout, including API design, UI/UX, performance targets, and stakeholder management.

Key Actions:

I gathered requirements from internal teams and designed a bulk edit engine:
  • Editable grid UI for quick in-place editing of existing records
  • Single-tenant upload restriction for new records to maintain data isolation
  • Streamlined validations and batch updates to the backend
  • Removed the need for manual S3 downloads and Jenkins dependency

Result:

  • The new solution reduced processing time from 20–30 minutes to just 2–3 minutes.
  • It was adopted across all SKUs.
  • Within one month:
  • 2 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) worth of effort was saved
  • Devops Support tickets related to reprocess dropped to zero. Users no longer needed to rely on devops engineers or S3 access.
State Management
UI/UX
PostgreSQL
API Design
DevOps Efficiency
High Throughput
Internal Tools
User‑Onboarding Project
User‑Onboarding Project

Situation:

Onboarding via raw API calls was tedious and error‑prone, risking HIPAA breaches.

Task:

Build a self‑serve “User Onboarding & Role Manager” that:
  • enforces tenant / workflow segregation,
  • lets support staff create / edit roles safely,
  • shows tabulated search‑able lists.

My Role:

Product Manager. Led UI/UX design, feature definition, and cross-functional team collaboration.

Key Actions:

  • Designed a dropdown‑driven UI
  • Parent dropdown (“User”) reveals tenant picker and workflow‑SKU multi‑select.
  • Action buttons: View Users, Onboard Users, View Roles.
  • Implemented role builder with: name, description, tenant & workflow selectors, dashboards (overview locked‑on), vault toggle, optional branch restriction.
  • Added client‑side validation + previews → “Confirm Onboard”.
  • Built paginated grids for Users & Roles with search, bulk delete/update, and in‑row Edit that scrolls to the role editor.
  • Scoped data queries: Global/Admins sees global items; other tenants see only their own.
  • Guard‑railed support flow to prevent mismatched tenant/workflow selections by through domain restrictions.

Result:

  • Onboarding time dropped from 15 min to < 2 min per user.
  • Support accuracy rose to 100 % (no mis‑scoped roles).
  • System now handles 500+ daily onboardings without performance degradation.
User Onboarding
Role Management
HIPAA Compliance
UI/UX Design
Self-Serve
SaaS
News Summarizer
News Summarizer
News Summarizer is a lightweight demo that condenses breaking headlines into bite‑sized briefs with one click. Built around OpenAI’s new Assistant API, the app dynamically decides when to call external tools: it pulls fresh articles via NewsAPI, and if that endpoint hiccups, auto‑fails over to Tavily Search so coverage never stalls. Each article is distilled by GPT into a crisp summary, key facts, and takeaway bullet points for rapid scanning. Because this portfolio build targets low traffic, a single hard‑coded Thread‑ID keeps the wiring simple, yet the design anticipates scaling—threads, queues, and caching layers can drop in for production‑grade loads.

Goal:

To provide users with quick, concise summaries of breaking news headlines using AI and demonstrate dynamic tool usage.

My Role:

Developer. Designed and built the application, integrating with external APIs and implementing the AI summarization.

Key Outcome:

Successfully created a functional demo that summarizes news articles and showcases robust API integration with failover capabilities.
AI
OpenAI API
NewsAPI
Tavily Search
GPT
Streamlit
Certifications & Skill Badges
Demonstrating continuous learning and expertise in cloud, AI/ML, and security technologies.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  • Associate Cloud Engineer

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  • Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen Skill Badge

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  • Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine Skill Badge

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  • Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Skill Badge

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  • Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Skill Badge

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  • Develop Your Google Cloud Network Skill Badge

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  • Prompt Design in Vertex AI Skill Badge

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  • Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

    Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Badge

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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AI/ML Certifications

A comprehensive list of my achievements can also be found on my LinkedIn profile.

Tools & Techniques
Exploring the frameworks and methods that drive effective product development and strategy.

Prioritization Techniques I Use

Effective prioritization is key to building impactful and scalable solutions. I use structured frameworks to evaluate initiatives based on value, effort, and urgency—helping teams stay focused and aligned. Two go-to methods I apply across projects:

MoSCoW Method

The MoSCoW framework (Must-have, Should-have, Could-have, Won’t-have) helps categorize features or tasks based on their criticality. It's especially useful in managing scope during roadmap planning, ensuring that essential capabilities are delivered first while keeping room for iterative improvements.

Scope Management
Roadmap Planning
Feature Prioritization
80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle)

The 80/20 rule helps identify the few high-leverage actions that drive the majority of results. Whether optimizing product features, workflows, or user journeys, I focus on the 20% that deliver 80% of the impact—maximizing efficiency without sacrificing quality.

Impact Analysis
Efficiency
Optimization

These methods support thoughtful, data-informed decisions that balance user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals.


Tools I Use for Product Design & Prototyping

Bringing clarity and alignment across stakeholders—from design to development—is critical to product success. I leverage modern tools to ensure ideas are communicated visually and interactively:

Figma

I use Figma to create wireframes, UI mockups, and user flows. It's my go-to for visualizing product ideas early, rapidly iterating on designs, and collaborating seamlessly with designers and stakeholders. I also use it to build UML diagrams that clearly define system behavior and interactions for technical teams.

UI/UX Design
Wireframing
Prototyping
Collaboration
UML Diagrams
Google Firebase Studio

To go beyond static designs, I use Firebase tools to build interactive feature prototypes. These clickable demos help stakeholders experience product flows firsthand and provide developers with a clear, functional reference for implementation—reducing ambiguity and accelerating build cycles.

Interactive Prototypes
Developer Handoff
Firebase
Rapid Prototyping

Together, these tools help bridge the gap between vision and execution, ensuring alignment from concept to launch.

My Articles
Sharing insights and perspectives on AI, product management, technology, and coding challenges.

AI Use Cases

Despite AI-powered ATS tools, hiring remains broken—candidates feel unseen, and recruiters struggle with mismatched profiles and last-minute drop-offs. Keyword-based matching without context, ignored portfolios, and outdated JDs highlight a need for deeper, smarter AI that truly understands both resumes and real job needs. It's time for a smarter solution.

AI in Recruitment
Hiring Challenges
ATS
Future of Work

Agentic AI is transforming employee onboarding with smart self-service portals, document auto-validation, profile imports, and sentiment analysis. By automating workflows and integrating with ERP systems, AI streamlines onboarding, reduces errors, and enhances employee experience—marking a shift from manual HR processes to intelligent, seamless, and scalable talent enablement.

Agentic AI
Employee Onboarding
HR Tech
Automation
Future of Work

AI-powered Learning & Development transforms workforce growth by identifying skill gaps, recommending personalized training, and anticipating future roles. Using NLP, clustering, and predictive modeling, it enables targeted upskilling while gamification boosts engagement. This hybrid approach blends AI insights with human judgment to build a resilient, future-ready workforce.

AI in L&D
Skills Gap
Future of Work
Personalized Learning
Workforce Development

A holistic employee listening strategy combines internal surveys and external platforms like Glassdoor and LinkedIn to capture real-time feedback across the hire-to-retire journey. Using web scraping and machine learning—like BERT, SVM, and sentiment analysis—companies can uncover unbiased insights to enhance engagement, reduce attrition, and build people-centric cultures.

Employee Listening
Feedback Analysis
AI in HR
Sentiment Analysis
Web Scraping
Machine Learning

Conversational AI enhances employee experience by automating HR, IT, and payroll support through intelligent chatbots. Integrated with internal systems and powered by NLP, NLU, and sentiment analysis, these assistants offer 24/7 self-service, reduce admin load, and boost satisfaction—transforming service delivery across the modern digital workplace.

Conversational AI
Chatbots
Employee Experience
HR Automation
IT Support
NLP
NLU

AI-driven workforce planning leverages predictive analytics to identify employees at risk of leaving, enabling timely retention and succession strategies. Using algorithms like XGBoost, Random Forest, and Survival Analysis, organizations can anticipate attrition, address team-level issues, and enhance talent continuity—transforming HR from reactive support to strategic business enabler.

Workforce Planning
Attrition Prediction
Predictive Analytics
XGBoost
Random Forest
Survival Analysis
HR Tech

Coding challenges

Rossmann’s Kaggle challenge involves predicting daily sales for 1,115 stores in Germany. This time-series regression problem helps optimize staffing and operations. My beginner-friendly approach includes data exploration, feature engineering, and model building—aimed at improving forecast accuracy and supporting smarter, data-driven retail decisions.

Machine Learning
Regression
Data Science
Kaggle
Time Series Prediction
Python

AI / ML Concepts

Dive into the world of ensemble methods in machine learning. This article covers various techniques like bagging, boosting, and stacking, explaining how combining multiple models can significantly enhance predictive accuracy and model robustness.

Ensemble Learning
Machine Learning
Bagging
Boosting
Stacking
Model Accuracy
Predictive Modeling