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Sankar Kumar
Palaniappan

AI Product Manager · Data Strategist

Aspiring AI Product Manager with 15+ years of experience building and scaling data- and AI-powered products that turn strategic intent into measurable business outcomes.

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Turning Vision
Into Products

Sankar Kumar Palaniappan

I own the full product lifecycle — from discovery and opportunity sizing to roadmap, delivery, and adoption — partnering with engineering, data science, and design to ship AI capabilities that customers and stakeholders actually use.

I specialize in AI/ML product strategy, data and platform strategy, and 0-to-1 through scale execution. I define the problems worth solving, translate them into crisp product requirements and success metrics, and run a hypothesis-led, experiment-driven approach to de-risk ambiguity.

My focus is on responsible, production-grade AI: pragmatic roadmaps, clear guardrails for safety and compliance, and measurable impact on engagement, efficiency, and revenue.

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15+
Years of Experience
12+
Products Shipped
5
Industries Covered
User Problems Solved

Projects Delivered by
Functional Domains

Real products built and shipped across industries — from publishing and healthcare to pharma and consumer tech.

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McGraw-Hill Education Publishing & EdTech 2010 – 2014

BookSense – Publishing Feasibility Predictor

Predictive analytics product that scores a book's market feasibility before publishing — automating go/no-go decisions using historical sales, genre, and market-trend data.

📈 30% fewer costly misses · Decision time: 3 weeks → <1 day · 25% lift in title success rate
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Upchannel Consumer Tech 2015

AppCow – Android App Marketplace

Android app store connecting developers and users through a unified storefront with secure payment processing, catalog management, and purchase-based app entitlement at scale.

🚀 500+ apps at launch · 99%+ transaction success · 40% faster developer onboarding
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Cloudculina Food Services 2016

Cloudculina – At-Home Chef Platform

Platform matching customers with vetted chefs based on cuisine preferences, dietary needs, and budget — with streamlined onboarding, scheduling, and secure payments.

💰 25% cost reduction · 40% repeat customers · 75% profitability uplift
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Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials 2017 – 2018

TrialHub – Custom CTMS

Custom Clinical Trial Management System centralizing site selection, enrollment tracking, milestone monitoring, and document control — integrated with EDC, regulatory, and safety systems.

🏥 50+ sites centralized · 30% faster setup · 100% GxP / 21 CFR Part 11 audit readiness
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HealthFirst Provider Management 2022 – 2025

ProviderIQ – AI Provider Lifecycle Management

AI-driven PLM platform automating provider onboarding, credentialing, claims processing, and compliance tracking — integrating structured healthcare data across enrollment workflows.

⚡ 40% faster onboarding · 98%+ claims accuracy · Compliance fully automated
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Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs 2025 – 2026

InsightMD – AI Medical Affairs Insights

AI product mining medical, clinical, and field-engagement data to surface new drug insights for MSL and Medical Affairs teams — using NLP and ML to detect trends and knowledge gaps.

🧠 60% faster insight discovery · Stronger scientific engagement · Compliance maintained

Built Projects

Personal AI and data products I've built from scratch — exploring what's possible at the frontier of technology.

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GenAI · RAG Research Intelligence 2026

ScienceAI – Intelligent Research Platform

Gen AI platform that lets researchers chat with scientific literature — papers, clinical trials, conferences, and competitor data — via a Langflow RAG pipeline, Chroma vector DB, and GPT streaming. ElevenLabs TTS delivers insights as on-demand audio and dual-voice podcasts.

⚡ Research time cut by 70% · 4+ literature types unified · Insights delivered as audio & podcasts
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AI · Analytics Customer Intelligence 2024

SurveAI – AI-Powered Customer Feedback Analysis

AI solution that automatically ingests, categorizes, and analyzes customer feedback to surface themes, sentiment, and priority issues — turning unstructured feedback into clear, actionable insights at scale.

⚡ Feedback analysis time cut by 80% · Actionable insights surfaced in real time · Faster product & CX decisions
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ML · Predictive Hospitality 2024

Hotel Booking Cancellation Predictor

Predictive model that identifies key drivers of booking cancellations and flags at-risk bookings in advance, enabling data-driven cancellation and refund policies to reduce revenue loss.

⚡ At-risk bookings predicted in advance · Key cancellation drivers identified · More profitable refund & policy decisions
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ML · NLP Cybersecurity 2024

SMS Spam Classifier

Text-classification model that analyzes SMS messages to automatically detect spam vs. legitimate messages, preventing phishing and cyber-attack attempts before they reach users.

⚡ High-accuracy spam detection automated · Phishing exposure reduced · User trust & safety improved
GenAI · LLM Customer Experience 2024

Gen AI Powered Review Categorization

LLM-powered solution that automates the classification of customer reviews — predicting categories, assigning priority, suggesting actions, and generating sentiment-based responses at scale.

⚡ Review handling automated end-to-end · Response time reduced significantly · Higher customer satisfaction & efficiency
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GenAI · Analytics Product Intelligence 2026

AI Analyst Builder: Redefining How Teams Do Product Analysis

AI-powered research partner that handles the execution layer while you keep the judgment layer. 18-agent pipeline frames questions, analyzes data, validates findings across four layers, and builds presentation-ready decks with speaker notes.

⚡ Analyses that take weeks now take minutes · One analyst becomes three · Systematic, 4-layer validated methodology replaces intuition

Experience

Where I've built products and driven impact.

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2025 – Present
Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner
Prophecy Consulting · Client: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical
  • Led requirements definition and delivery for enterprise Medical Affairs system implementations and upgrades across medical, regulatory, and clinical operations in a GxP-regulated environment.
  • Delivered compliant, scalable solutions for scientific exchange, investigator-initiated studies, evidence generation, and medical content management — authoring requirements, user stories, and process flows (Jira/Confluence) aligned to 21 CFR Part 11, FDA, EMA, and SOPs.
  • Ensured audit readiness through IQ/OQ/PQ, UAT, and validation documentation, and enabled Medical Affairs KPIs and reporting while driving change management and successful system adoption.
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2022 – 2025
Data Engineer / Product Owner
Prophecy Consulting · Client: HealthFirst
  • Delivered an AI-driven Provider Lifecycle Management platform, optimizing provider onboarding, credentialing, claims processing, inventory tracking, and regulatory compliance.
  • Integrated structured healthcare data across enrollment, credentialing, and compliance workflows — validating RESTful APIs (Postman, Java) to ensure reliable exchange between provider, claims, analytics, and AI components.
  • Drove SAFe Agile delivery as Product Owner on an Agile Release Train, defining PI objectives, governing EPICs/Features, and managing cross-team dependencies with Product Management, Solution Architects, and Data Engineering.
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2020 – 2022
Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner
HCL Technologies · Client: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical
  • Scaled enterprise IT products and platforms from $0.5M to $4M investment with revenue impact of up to $16M, owning CRM and commercial platform strategy across Salesforce, Veeva, and Microsoft Dynamics to improve engagement, conversion, and retention.
  • Delivered audit-ready global pharma programs and drug launches as Product Owner in a SAFe Agile Release Train, aligning epics and roadmaps to business value and regulatory requirements (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, GCP, EMA, ICH, GDPR, HIPAA) with full IQ/OQ/PQ and UAT validation.
  • Reduced project schedule variance to 4% while delivering enterprise analytics, dashboards, and KPI frameworks — integrating CRM, ERP, CTMS, IQVIA, and market access data with strengthened governance and MDM.
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2017 – 2020
Business Analyst / Product Owner
Grapnel Tech Services · Client: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical
  • Scaled enterprise IT platforms from $0.5M to $4M investment and delivered up to $2M in lifecycle cost savings by owning CRM and commercial platform strategy across Salesforce, Veeva, and Microsoft Dynamics, improving customer engagement, conversion, and retention.
  • Enabled audit-ready global drug launches as Product Owner in a SAFe Agile Release Train, aligning roadmaps to business value and regulatory requirements (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11) across Commercial, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, and IT.
  • Drove an 80% productivity increase and $5M in annual cost savings through end-to-end Tableau/big data analytics and AI-enabled reporting, impacting 5K+ global users after evaluating 200+ vendor products (Cloudera, Tableau, IBM, Inova).
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2015 – 2017
Senior Business Analyst
Cloudculina LLC
  • Defined a market-led mobile product strategy that optimized a $50K operating budget and laid the foundation for scalable product development.
  • Reduced operating costs by 25%, increased repeat customers by 40%, and drove a 75% profitability uplift by co-building a high-growth food services venture with the COO.
  • Achieved a $20M business valuation and attracted strong VC interest through enterprise-grade market research and a 24-month growth pipeline.
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2015
Business Analyst
Upchannel
  • Delivered tailored solutions that resolved core operational and performance challenges by aligning client requirements with strategic objectives.
  • Drove efficiency by partnering with business and IT stakeholders to co-create and implement customized, high-impact IT solutions.
  • Improved budget efficiency and reduced variance by 8% through compliant business process models and early identification of delivery impacts.
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2010 – 2014
Project Engineer
WIPRO Technologies · Client: McGraw-Hill Education
  • Delivered complex global technology and process transformations for enterprise clients (Diversey, McGraw-Hill), keeping programs strategically aligned and on-target.
  • Built and scaled high-performing global delivery teams (including offshore) and translated business strategy into scalable functional and technical designs.
  • Increased client satisfaction by 25% and originated over $5M in new business through continuous improvement and trusted executive relationships.

Education

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MBA – International Business
Fairleigh Dickinson University
2016 · 🇺🇸 USA
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Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics & Communication
Anna University
2009 · 🇮🇳 India

Certifications

Continuous learning across product, technology, and strategy.

Tools & Technologies

The tools I use to research, design, build, and ship products.

🛠️ Technology Tools

Amazon QuickSight API Arize AI Dataiku Figma GitHub Jira Langchain Langflow Microsoft Azure AI Foundry n8n OpenClaw Postman PowerBI Python RapidMiner SQL Tableau Visio

🤖 AI Product & Automation

Agent-Native Operations Agentic AI Applications AI Chatbots & Assistants AI Evaluation & Metrics AI for Product Management AI Prompt Engineering AI Workflow Automation AWS AI Services (Bedrock, SageMaker) Generative AI Development Human-in-the-Loop Review LLM Applications & Integration No-Code AI & Machine Learning Prompt Behavior Design RAG & Vector Search Responsible AI Guardrails

🏥 Functional Domain Experience

Audit Management CAPA Clinical Data Management Clinical Trial Systems GxP IT Management Medical Affairs Systems Provider Lifecycle Management Regulatory Systems Vendor Product Analysis

🎯 Technical Product Management

Agile Product Ownership (CSPO) API & Integration Strategy Data-Driven Decision Making Design Thinking Flow & Value Stream Optimization Lean Portfolio Management Product Analytics Product Discovery Product-Led Growth Product Vision & Strategy Roadmapping & Prioritization SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager Scaled Agile Delivery (ART / PI Planning) Stakeholder Management User Stories & Requirements

Claude Skill/Sub-agent Builder Collections

Open-source Claude AI skills and sub-agents built for product managers. Free to use, fork, and contribute.

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sankar2code / Claude-Skill_SubAgent-Builder-Collections

Curated Claude AI skills and sub-agents for product managers — market research, PRD writing, evaluation, user research, mockup generation & more. Free to use and contribute.

Public Repository GitHub
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Skills

Sub-Agents

Recommendations

LinkedIn recommendations from colleagues and clients.

Peter Dudek

Pega Certified Senior System Architect

Worked together on same team

Paul Atherton

Manager Provider Data Management, Healthfirst

Worked together on same team

Ravi Vishwas

Enterprise Technology & ERP Senior Consultant

Professional consulting relationship

Thukkaram Periasamy

Associate Manager, Accenture

Worked together on same team

Giridhar Golkonda

IT Leader & Enterprise Architect

Mentor

Denise Hurley-Forgach

Senior Manager, Utilities Industries

Worked together on same team

Narayanan Ramaswamy

Sr. Client Partner @ Saama | Health Sciences

Managed Sankar directly

Peter Dudek

Pega Certified Senior System Architect

"I had the pleasure of working alongside Sankar on the same team at Healthfirst for over 2 years. Sankar impressed me with his professionalism, dedication, and engagement in our work. He has a remarkable work ethic, always going the extra mile to ensure projects are completed to the highest standards. In the ever-evolving IT landscape, his Product Management skills and deep technical knowledge are invaluable and I am confident that he would be a great asset to any organization."

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Paul Atherton

Manager Provider Data Management, Healthfirst

"Sankar has been an integral part of our team and a phenomenal asset to both my team and the ProgramTeam he worked within. His leadership on the program aspects that he managed meant that when issues arose for my team, those issues never lingered. I would recommend Sankar for any position where his skills are a match for. His work ethic, collaboration, and results are second to none."

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Ravi Vishwas

Enterprise Technology & ERP Senior Consultant

"I recommend Sankar as an exceptional IT Consultant and an inspiring motivator. Throughout our professional interactions, I have witnessed Sankar's remarkable ability to deliver outstanding results while uplifting those around him. With a deep understanding of complex technological systems and strategic thinking, Sankar identifies optimization opportunities and drives meaningful change within organizations. His dedication to excellence and unwavering commitment make him an invaluable asset to any project or team. Sankar's blend of technical expertise and motivational leadership extends beyond the workplace, making him a respected role model in both professional and personal domains."

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Thukkaram Periasamy

Associate Manager, Accenture

"I am delighted to write a LinkedIn recommendation for Sankar, who has proven to be an exceptional Project Analyst during our time working together. Sankar possesses a rare blend of analytical process, strategic thinking, and dedication to excellence that makes him an invaluable asset to any project team. Throughout our collaboration, Sankar consistently demonstrated his ability to dissect complex project requirements, identify key deliverables, and develop comprehensive action plans that successfully translated vision into reality."

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Giridhar Golkonda

IT Leader & Enterprise Architect

"During Sankar's five-year tenure as a Business Analyst in the pharmaceutical industry, their remarkable analysis and presentation abilities were evident. They adeptly dissected complex data and conveyed clear, actionable insights, enhancing our operational efficiency and guiding strategic decisions. I confidently recommend Sankar for his outstanding professionalism and invaluable skills in this area."

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Denise Hurley-Forgach

Senior Manager, Utilities Industries

"Sankar is one of the most poised and composed professionals that I have ever worked with. He has the strength and creativity to execute challenging tasks and manifest a quality delivery. Not only would I recommend Sankar, but would be grateful to have him join my team of professionals."

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Narayanan Ramaswamy

Sr. Client Partner @ Saama | Health Sciences

"I am delighted to provide an enthusiastic recommendation for Sankar, who served as a Business Analyst during his tenure at one of my prior organizations. Sankar consistently delivered exceptional performance, leaving an indelible mark on our then IT department. From the outset, Sankar's analytical prowess was evident. He adeptly gathered and meticulously analyzed business requirements, translating them into actionable insights and strategic plans. His clear communication skills facilitated alignment across stakeholders, ensuring well-executed projects. Sankar's proactive problem-solving abilities were invaluable in our fast-paced environment. His collaborative approach earned him the respect and trust of peers and supervisors alike."

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Let's Build AI Products
Together 👋

I love turning bold ideas into AI and data products that people genuinely enjoy using. I thrive on building great teams, tearing down silos, and shipping things that make a real difference for both the business and the people who use them.

Want to geek out over AI product strategy, LLM and agentic apps, ML-driven platforms, or enterprise SaaS? Or just feel like saying hi? I'd absolutely love that. 😊 Reach out anytime — my inbox is always open, and I can't wait to connect!

🇺🇸 New York / New Jersey, USA