Akshay Kumar
PM
Open to opportunitiesFoster City, CA

AI Product Manager& Builder

10+ years shipping AI products at S&P Global, C3 AI, and beyond. I build and evaluate production-grade AI—from multi-agent systems and RAG pipelines to RL evaluation environments for frontier labs.

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Quick Overview

At a Glance

A quick overview of my professional journey, passions, and technical expertise.

The TL;DR

Enterprise AI Product Leader

  • 10+ years shipping AI products at S&P Global, C3 AI & beyond
  • Built multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines & RL eval environments for Fortune 500s and frontier labs
  • Columbia Business Analytics grad — 4 AI apps shipped end-to-end in 2025
S&P Global
C3 AI
Cowen & Co

The Origin Story

From VIT to Columbia to AI

Started as a software engineer in India, built my way up through S&P Global, then pivoted to pursue my Master's at Columbia. Now I help enterprises unlock value from AI—from research tools to agentic workflows.

Human-centered AI0→1 ProductsData Storytelling

The Toolkit

AI Systems
RAG PipelinesLangGraphcrewAIVector SearchMulti-ModalPrompt Engineering
LLMOps & Eval
LangSmithDatadogLLM-as-a-JudgeLLM Fine-TuningPythonSQL
Data & Tooling
CursorReplitData ModelingSnowflakeAWSdbt
Strategy & UX
HITL WorkflowsAI Trust & SafetyA/B TestingFigmaMiro
Professional Experience

Featured Projects

Enterprise AI products I've shipped that made real impact for users and businesses.

Retail Right screenshot

Retail Right

Personal Project

A multi-agent product matching tool that lets users search via text, URL, or image input, with intelligent price comparison across retailers using CLIP embeddings and hybrid search.

LangGraphCLIPFastAPIChromaDBOpenAITavilyLangSmith
InvestorLens screenshot

InvestorLens

Personal Project

A persona-driven company intelligence search engine for the Enterprise AI & Data Infrastructure sector — where the same query returns fundamentally different results depending on whether you're a Value Investor, PE Firm, Growth VC, Strategic Acquirer, or Enterprise Buyer.

LangGraphNeo4jFastAPIGPT-4oReactLangSmithGitHub ActionsSEC EDGAR APIVite

ML-Powered Field Search

S&P Global

A machine learning backed search endpoint that leverages transfer learning from a Microsoft-trained model to intelligently surface the most relevant fields for user queries.

Transfer LearningPythonNLPElasticsearchCustom Rules EngineREST APIs
Natural Language Screener screenshot

Natural Language Screener

S&P Global

Built an AI-powered screening tool that lets financial analysts query complex datasets using plain English instead of writing SQL or using clunky filter UIs.

LLMsRAGPythonSQLReactAWS

Analytics Engine

Cowen & Co

Designed and built a comprehensive analytics platform for investment research, enabling data-driven insights for equity research analysts.

PythonSQLTableauExcel VBAData Modeling
Research Lens screenshot

Research Lens

Personal Project

An AI-powered research aggregator that scans and synthesizes content from arXiv and TechCrunch to surface relevant AI/ML papers and startup news.

PythonLangChainOpenAIarXiv APIWeb Scraping

My Journey

A timeline of my professional and educational experiences

AI Product Manager & Builder

Contract/Consulting

Jun 2025 - Present

Shipped 4 AI-powered applications end-to-end and designed RL evaluation environments for frontier AI labs.

  • Shipped 4 AI apps end-to-end: InvestorLens, Retail Right, Research Lens & more
  • Cut multi-agent response time 87% (30s→4s) via LangSmith trace optimization
  • Designed RL eval environments for OpenAI & Anthropic via Mercor

Senior AI Solutions & Product Manager

C3 AI

Dec 2024 - May 2025

Drove 0-to-1 AI product development, delivering enterprise-grade solutions for Fortune 500 clients.

  • Unlocked $6.5M in working capital savings
  • Pioneered Generative AI ingestion framework
  • Accelerated deployment speed by 30%

Senior Product Manager

S&P Global

Jan 2020 - Nov 2024

Owned end-to-end product strategy for Capital IQ Pro, integrating AI capabilities and driving platform growth.

  • Delivered 69% user growth & 101% usage growth YoY, contributing to $2B+ revenue
  • Pioneered RAG & LLM-enhanced search; boosted accuracy 40%, cut time-to-insight 30%
  • Owned Capital IQ Pro Screener — reduced analyst workflow time ~65%; improved adoption 55%

Data Scientist

Cowen Investment Management

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

Built predictive analytics solutions for investment professionals using advanced ML models.

  • 5-10% higher accuracy than existing algorithms
  • Forecasted energy prices with 80% accuracy
  • Enhanced model performance through feature engineering

M.S. Business Analytics

Columbia University

Sep 2018 - Dec 2019

Joint program between Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School, focusing on data science and ML.

  • Columbia Engineering & Business School
  • Data Science & Machine Learning focus

Product Owner

S&P Global Market Intelligence

Jul 2015 - Jul 2018

Led machine learning integration for Capital IQ, managing product development from concept through launch.

  • 25% improvement in user engagement
  • Enterprise APIs for 900+ clients ($133M ACV)
  • MIFID II compliance solutions

B.S. Computer Science & Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology

Jul 2011 - May 2015

Foundation in computer science, software engineering, and problem-solving.

  • Computer Science & Engineering
Technical Expertise

Skills & Technologies

A dynamic view of my technical toolkit, built over years of shipping AI-powered products.

AI/ML
Infrastructure
Data
Product
Leadership
RAG Pipelines
LangGraph
crewAI
LLM Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
LangSmith
Agentic Workflows
AWS
Azure
Docker
RAG Pipelines
LangGraph
crewAI
LLM Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
LangSmith
Agentic Workflows
AWS
Azure
Docker
Python
SQL
Snowflake
dbt
PostgreSQL
Data Modeling
CI/CD
REST APIs
Microservices
Roadmapping
PRDs
User Research
Figma
Jira
Agile/Scrum
Strategy
Stakeholder Mgmt
Python
SQL
Snowflake
dbt
PostgreSQL
Data Modeling
CI/CD
REST APIs
Microservices
Roadmapping
PRDs
User Research
Figma
Jira
Agile/Scrum
Strategy
Stakeholder Mgmt
Cross-functional
Technical Writing
RAG Pipelines
LangGraph
crewAI
LLM Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
LangSmith
Cross-functional
Technical Writing
RAG Pipelines
LangGraph
crewAI
LLM Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
LangSmith

Always learning, always building, always caffeinated.