Rahul Mallapur

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 7 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of successful AI user research platform.
  • Led product development at multiple high-growth startups.
  • Expert in product management and AI technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product leader with expertise in AI and user research.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAi

Other Skills

AI/MLData AnalysisEarly-stage StartupsGamificationLeadershipMachine LearningManagementMongoDBProduct DevelopmentPythonSQLSalesStatisticsStrategyUser Research

About

Founder, product manager, and generalist. Currently building a new product at Salient, where we're creating AI agents for consumer lenders. I cofounded Blitzllama, a user research platform backed by Y Combinator, which was acquired by VWO. Previously, I was a PM at Zynga and an early product hire at two high-growth startups.

Experience

Salient

Product & Growth Lead

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Blitzllama (by vwo)

Cofounder & CEO

Apr 2021Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Blitzllama is an AI user research platform, backed by Y Combinator (W22) and now acquired by VWO (Wingify).
  • Product teams in 100+ companies including BharatPe, Caratlane, Halan, and Motilal Oswal used Blitzllama to collect 16M+ responses and track feedback on 180M+ devices - making it one of the largest in the category.
  • I led product (driving early PMF), sales (closing 75% of revenue), and AI/ML (built the entire AI stack to automate customer insight discovery) and a 7-person team across engineering and GTM.
AIUser ResearchProduct ManagementSalesAI/ML

Arena12

Co-Founder

Oct 2020Apr 2021 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Platform to embed hyper-casual games into mobile apps to increase user engagement (like Youtube Playables or LinkedIn Games). Sold the product to Flipkart (ecommerce giant in India), integrated into Flipkart Games, before pivoting to Blitzllama.

Getmega

Product

May 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Early product leader at GetMega, a social gaming platform. GetMega raised Series B from Accel, Nexus VP, and Hashed.

Zynga

Product

Jul 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managed the product for a mobile strategy game with revenue of $xx million/year. I was responsible for the roadmap, and revenue and user engagement metrics.

Tinystep

Head of Product & Founding Member

Jul 2015Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Tinystep was a content-community parenting network. Tinystep was acquired by The Good Glamm Group.
  • I managed Tinystep's mobile and web products from 0 to 1. I also oversaw the work of design, analytics, QA, and community moderation teams.

Target

Business Analyst

Jul 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Created a blueprint for the rollout of a key supply chain initiative of Target:
  • Developed analytical models to evaluate financial feasibility and operational benefits
  • Recommended optimal product distribution and inventory levels across supply chain nodes

Education

Y Combinator

W22

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Master of Technology - MTech — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

IIT Bombay - Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management

Minor — Management

Jan 2010Jan 2013

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