Product Executive · AI Platforms · Builder · Writer · Hyderabad · I-140 Approved · Cap-Exempt · Open to US Remote

Srinivas Mullapudi

20+ years leading AI-native platforms and enterprise data systems at scale. I don't just spec AI — I ship it, write about it, and think harder about it than most people in the room. Currently Director PM at Highspot, owning 25% of ARR.

RAG Orchestration Agentic AI Hands-on Builder AI PM Gita Author 0→1 Products India Hub Builder Enterprise SaaS ISB MBA
thisissubbu@gmail.com +91-8374446622 idlebrain2000 Ground Truth Medium Hanuman & The Little Girl
20+
Years shipping product
30%
ARR uplift via AI · Highspot
Hands-on builder
Active across Lovable, Vercel & GitHub — dabbles in app building to stay sharp
Active writer
Deep-researched tech writing on AI, product, and what actually ships
Why this section exists
I build with the same AI tools my teams use — Lovable, Vercel, GitHub. A PM who can't prototype can't meaningfully push back on engineering estimates, de-risk an agent architecture, or tell the difference between a demo and a product. These aren't side projects. They're how I stay ahead of every team I lead.
Lovable · AI-generated apps
live
Lovable
Aria — Voice Concierge
PropTech · AI Voice Agent
AI voice agent qualifying premium real estate leads through natural phone conversations. NRI luxury segment.
aria-wise-advisor.lovable.app
Lovable
LuxeHome — Real Estate Discovery
PropTech · NRI · AI Concierge
Immersive video tour platform with AI concierge for NRI buyers seeking premium Indian real estate.
dream-vid-home.lovable.app
Lovable
SugaPal — Meal Mentor
HealthTech · AI Nutrition
Personalised AI meal planning and dietary guidance focused on blood sugar management.
sugapal-meal-mentor.lovable.app
Lovable
Emotion Insights
MentalTech · AI Self-awareness
AI-powered emotional pattern analysis and self-awareness insights tracked over time.
emotion-insights-unveiled.lovable.app
Vercel · hand-coded & deployed
Vercel · HTML
Sway AI Labs
Startup Prototype · AI Demand Engine
5-agent AI pipeline delivering qualified buyers to WhatsApp for Indian SMEs. Hand-written, trilingual: English, Hindi, Telugu.
sway-site-blond.vercel.app
Published · Amazon
Hanuman & The Little Girl
EdTech · Publishing · Children's Book
Children's storybook celebrating Indian culture and Diwali traditions. Original authored content, from idea to published book.
amazon.in
GitHub · source & experiments
idlebrain2000
GitHub · HTML
sway-site
Source · Vercel Deployed
Hand-written source for Sway AI Labs. Shows ability to write and ship without scaffolding or boilerplate.
github.com/idlebrain2000/sway-site
GitHub · Active
workshop
Experiments · Prototypes
Public scratchpad — ideas stress-tested before they ship anywhere. Where art of the possible gets explored.
github.com/idlebrain2000/workshop
Work in progress · Book
The AI PM Gita
18 parvas. 18 lessons in AI product management — drawn from the Mahabharata and tested against real system failures, enterprise deployments, and the craft of building AI that actually ships. The articles below are excerpted chapters.
Ground Truth · Substack
Subscribe
The thread connecting all four
What does AI actually do — to products, teams, markets, decisions? Not what the pitch deck says. What actually happens when probabilistic systems meet real budgets, real users, and real production environments.
01
Schrödinger's AI Agent
Jun 10, 2026
Simultaneously in production and not, until the CFO opens the invoice
Enterprise AIAgentic SystemsROIFailure Modes
88% of enterprise AI agents never reach production. Five failure autopsies: orphaned data pipelines, compliance ambushes, the edge case that walked in on a Tuesday, token bills that shock CFOs, and the accountability void nobody budgeted for. Uber burned its entire annual AI budget in 4 months. Microsoft revoked developer licenses. One company ran a $500M Claude bill. An entire VC-funded category now exists just to solve failure mode #5.
"We are living through the most overfunded, overhyped, and underdelivered moment in enterprise software history. Every boardroom has a pilot. Almost nobody has a production system."
Read on Substack
02
You didn't build a product. You built a trap.
Jun 11, 2026
What the Mahabharata knew about AI failure that your PRD doesn't
AI Product DesignTrustFailure ModesAI PM Gita
The Chakravyuha — the inescapable battle formation from the Mahabharata — as a frame for why most AI features are traps: brilliantly designed for entry, no exit built in. Introduces the Three Rings framework (Signal, Threshold, Exit) and a forensic breakdown of AI sycophancy — the most dangerous failure mode nobody reports because it looks like success.
"The model learned to please, not to help. Nobody files a bug report that says 'the AI was too agreeable.' That is what makes sycophancy the most dangerous failure of all."
Read on Substack
03
Shift Right
Jun 20, 2026
AI is doing to PM what DevOps did to testing — except the direction is opposite
Product ManagementAI & PM RoleStrategyCustomer Understanding
4 founders at Cursor beat Microsoft's 26M-user GitHub Copilot without better technology — they out-understood the developer. When building collapses to near-zero cost, the constraint shifts entirely to customer understanding. Maps how discovery, strategy, roadmaps, metrics, and GTM all need to shift right — toward the customer, continuously, not quarterly.
"When anyone can copy your features in a week, a feature advantage lasts a week. A human insight — genuinely held, operationalized across the product — lasts years."
Read on Substack
04
The $900M Gambit
Jun 22, 2026
A tale of $900M, three billion users, and a man who only ever let 1% in
India TechMeta · CREDFintechFollow the Money
Six dots connecting Meta's $900M CRED investment and Kunal Shah's appointment to lead WhatsApp globally. The central contradiction: the man who built his empire by excluding 99% of India (CIBIL 750+ gate) now has to serve three billion. The data wall, the Jio precedent, the LeCun departure as a cautionary parallel.
"Robin has the batarang. Batman can't open it."
Read on Substack
Other writing
Medium
Earlier essays
2021 · Product · Leadership
Earlier long-form writing on product thinking and leadership. The roots of the Ground Truth voice.
vasumullapudi.medium.com
Print & Digital
Fiction & poetry
Published · Original
Original short stories and poems in digital and print. Writing as a practice that sharpens every other kind of thinking.
The pattern
Every role follows the same arc: inherit complexity, impose order, ship AI, measure outcomes. Not a PM who manages features — a PM who owns ARR, builds orgs from zero, and leaves systems behind that run without them.
Career
click to expand
Highspot — $3.5B · Revenue Enablement SaaS
Director PM · Analytics, Data Platform & AI · 25% of ARR
Mar 2024 – Present
Architected Nexus™ GTM Agent and Deal Agent on RAG orchestration, vector data pipelines, and real-time content ingestion. Built the India Product & Engineering hub from zero — 80+ engineers and PMs. Cut AI and permission latency 10x, directly driving end-user adoption. Launched a standardised tools catalog decoupling AI from the data layer, compressing agent time-to-market from months to days. Delivered 30% ARR uplift through AI capabilities launched.
30% ARR uplift 10x latency cut 25% faster agent ramp 80-person India hub · zero to one
Innovapptive — Connected Industrial Worker · Fortune 500
VP Product · BU Head · 120+ person org
Dec 2022 – Feb 2024
Led product vision and execution for a 120+ person cross-functional org. Built two zero-to-one cloud-native SaaS platforms as foundational services. Onboarded 10+ Fortune 500 customers and doubled cARR in 12 months. Architected a Computer Vision inference platform with edge-to-cloud data sync achieving sub-3-second hazard detection for frontline workers.
2x cARR in 12 months 10+ Fortune 500 onboarded <3s CV hazard detection 45% faster implementation
e2open — Enterprise Supply Chain SaaS
Director PM · Supply Chain Planning Suite · 15%+ of ARR
Apr 2016 – Nov 2022
Product lead for the Planning Suite contributing 15%+ of subscription revenue — demand forecasting and promotions planning for global enterprises. Integrated Channel Data Management with Planning, creating a unified operational view: 15% cross-sell growth and 10% better forecast accuracy.
15%+ of subscription ARR 15% cross-sell growth 10% forecast accuracy gain
Earlier US roles
Platinum DB Consulting · Global Information Systems · Tech Mahindra
2004 – 2015
Program Manager at Platinum DB Consulting (USA) — 7 years of enterprise delivery across US clients. Programmer Analyst at Global Information Systems (USA). Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra. The engineering foundation that still informs how I build and evaluate systems today.
Expertise
AI / Data
RAG systemsAgentic workflowsVector pipelinesLLM orchestrationKnowledge graphs
Platform
Connector ecosystemsData ingestionBI & analyticsEdge-to-cloudCV inference
Leadership
0→1 productsIndia hub building100+ orgsARR ownershipCross-border teams
Builder stack
LovableVercelGitHubHTML/CSSSubstack
Integrations
SalesforceMS TeamsZoomSAPCRM / ERP
Education
Indian School of Business (ISB)
PGP in Management · Strategy & Leadership, Marketing
2015–16
JNTU Hyderabad
B.Tech, Computer Science
2000–04
Open to Director / VP Product roles in AI-native SaaS — India or US remote. I-140 approved · cap-exempt · no visa sponsorship needed.
Get in touch