Product management
Turning ambiguous opportunities into focused product direction, engineering-ready scope, and measurable outcomes.
- Product discovery
- Requirements & user stories
- Roadmaps & prioritization
- Success metrics
Product manager / engineer by foundation
Product Manager
with expertise across
software, data & AI.
I’m Surya. I turn ambiguous problems into product direction, clear bets, and delivery plans that engineering teams can execute—without losing sight of the customer, the business, or the system underneath.
See product work01 Positioning
I turn business needs into products engineering teams can build.
I’ve worked across product, software engineering, and data engineering—so I can connect the problem a customer has, the outcome a business needs, and the choices a technical team has to make. My role is to create focus: define the opportunity, align the people involved, and keep progress tied to evidence.
Today at iPowerUp, I lead product definition for a data platform and AI capabilities in a connected energy product. Earlier at Electronic Arts, I built trust-and-safety services, data products, ML-ready workflows, and the decision support around them.
Start a conversation02 Expertise
What I bring
to product management.
AI & data products
Applying analytics, AI, and trustworthy data foundations to build product capabilities people can rely on.
- RAG & LLM integration
- Model evaluation
- QLoRA fine-tuning
- Data quality & analytics
Technical product fluency
Working credibly with engineering on the systems, constraints, and trade-offs beneath a product decision.
- APIs & integrations
- Data platforms
- Cloud & distributed systems
- Python, SQL & Java
Product delivery
Giving cross-functional teams the clarity to ship, learn, and make better decisions along the way.
- Agile delivery
- Release readiness
- Risk & dependency management
- Stakeholder alignment
03 How I work
A clear path from
problem to product.
Turn signals into a problem worth solving
Start with the problem, then understand the system around it.
I use customer, business, and operational signals to frame the real opportunity before committing to a solution. At iPowerUp, that means mapping how device behavior, mobile experiences, and data flows can become monitoring, insights, and recommendations people will trust.
- Product discovery & requirements
- Data definitions & integration mapping
- Customer and operational signals
Make trade-offs visible
Build the roadmap around value, feasibility, and evidence.
I evaluate options—from RAG-backed analytics and recommendation experiences to platform capabilities and workflow improvements—against dependencies, scalability, cost, and the evidence needed to know they are working.
- Roadmap & backlog prioritization
- AI product and technical trade-offs
- Success measures & release criteria
Ship with confidence
Give teams a clear path from scope to product readiness.
I turn the decision into scoped work, align teams around it, and stay close to testing, data quality, risks, and release readiness until the product is ready to learn from.
- Cross-functional delivery
- Integration testing & readiness
- Metrics, risks & stakeholder alignment
04 Experience
Built in engineering.
Now leading the product work.
Product and technical experience
iPowerUp Labs
Oct 2025 — PresentProduct Manager
Own product discovery and delivery for the data platform and AI capabilities behind a smart solar-charging ecosystem.
- Define the platform roadmap across data ingestion, modeling, storage, APIs, and data quality for device monitoring, analytics, and future intelligent features.
- Translate solar, battery, charging, sensor, and mobile-app flows into implementation-ready requirements, data definitions, and success measures.
- Lead integration of RAG-based analytics and AI-assisted charging and battery recommendations, partnering with hardware and engineering teams on feasibility and product readiness.
Electronic Arts
Jul 2020 — Mar 2024Data Engineer · Jul 2021 — Mar 2024
Made player-trust data usable for product, game, and data-science decisions.
- Built pipelines and analytical data layers for billions of player, gameplay, and service events—supporting product analytics, experimentation, and service-health decisions.
- Created self-service analytics, ML-ready datasets, and evaluation frameworks for Player Trust initiatives across multiple EA titles.
- Established validation, governance, and monitoring practices that improved pipeline reliability by 30% and reduced incident response time by 80%.
Software Engineer · Jul 2020 — Jun 2021
Built the backend and telemetry foundation for player reporting and content moderation.
- Co-developed content trust and safety services supporting player-reporting workflows for Apex Legends and EA Sports FC.
- Improved the VoIP Player Reporting Service, contributing to a 65% reduction in the moderation backlog.
- Partnered with product and operational teams to improve observability, reporting workflows, and the effectiveness of player-safety interventions.
Scarlet Industries
Apr 2024 — Aug 2024Program Manager · Product operations
Made product-development work easier to see, prioritize, and deliver.
- Introduced a Smartsheet operating system for milestones, dependencies, ownership, and accountability, increasing on-time delivery by 33%.
- Defined operational and product-development KPIs and led process improvements that reduced turnaround time by 30%.
05 Selected product work
The problems I’ve helped
make more solvable.
Data and AI platform for connected energy
Leading product definition for a platform that turns solar, battery, charging, and device signals into reliable insights, with RAG-based analytics and a foundation for intelligent recommendations.
Product Manager
Player trust & safety
Built services, telemetry, data products, and ML-ready workflows for player reporting, moderation, and trust decisions across major EA titles.
Engineering → data
Reviews Studio product strategy
Designed an AI-powered UGC platform concept with a scoped MVP, phased roadmap, and integration strategy across Shopify, TikTok, Instagram, and headless commerce.
Consulting project
Applied AI prototypes
Built a Customer Support SLM end to end—from leakage-aware data preparation through QLoRA fine-tuning, evaluation, and serving—and an AI workflow that turns meeting transcripts into staged client tasks.
Applied AI
06 Next role
Looking for a product role
at a technology company.
I’m open to product opportunities across software, data, and AI—especially where strong product thinking, technical fluency, and a bias for measurable outcomes can help a team build better.
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