Rudra Naik

CEO

India10 yrs 5 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Reversed customer churn for a top-tier Shopify app.
Led product management for high-velocity SaaS growth.
Expert in building AI-first systems and frameworks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI specialist with a strong focus on product management and growth strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningAi DevelopmentStrategy And OperationsChange ManagementProduct ManagementCustomer RetentionStrategySales StrategyMarket DevelopmentP&l ManagementDesign

Other Skills

Applied AIBenefits DesignBusiness AnalyticsCategory ManagementConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Cross-functional CoordinationCross-functional Team LeadershipCross-team CollaborationDesign ThinkingE-commerceEnd User ResearchEnd-to-end system developmentField KPIs designGo-to-market StrategyGoogle Cloud

About

Experienced professional with a bias for clarity, speed, and impact. I’ve managed P&Ls, overseen team mergers, headed Centres of Excellence, and built products across e-commerce, SaaS, and marketplaces—from refurbished electronics businesses to sales enablement tools to high-velocity SaaS growth. I care deeply about solving real problems, and thrive in high-talent, high-trust environments where strategy and execution go hand in hand. Most recently, I was brought in to bring structure to a startup navigating questions of identity and direction. I repositioned a top-tier Shopify app from a passive wishlist tool to a shopper conversion platform—reversing net customer churn, doubling feature velocity, and driving engagement-led growth. I bring structure to ambiguity, urgency to execution, and believe that small, rapid iterations are the path to outsized outcomes. Let’s build something real.

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Career break

2 roles

Personal goal pursuit

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Took a deliberate break to run a personal R&D lab focused on applied AI, treating it as a sandbox to learn, build, and ship across multiple domains.
Built and tested AI-first systems end-to-end: from Naive RAG and GraphRAG to a custom hybrid retrieval architecture. Hacked open-source stacks like Graphiti, FastGraphRAG, and nano-graphRAG to their limits before developing an enhanced Naive RAG framework tuned for accuracy and interpretability.
Worked hands-on with OpenAI and Groq models (including GPT OSS 120B for fast inference), Whisper Large V3 for speech processing, and a backend stack spanning Python, Postgres with PGVector, Neo4j, Supabase, and Google Cloud.
Explored agentic AI, graph-based reasoning, and multi-modal data ingestion, with projects spanning renewables, smart grid analytics, and most recently defence-tech opportunities in India.
Early experiments included rapid prototyping using Gemini CLI, Qwen CLI, Claude Code, Cursor, and Warp, evolving from playful builds on Lovable and Bolt.dev to serious systems work. Exploring Langfuse for observability.

Applied AIEnd-to-end system developmentOpen-source stack utilizationPythonPostgresNeo4j+3

Health and well-being

Feb 2024 – Sep 2024 · 7 mos

Got my health back on track, dropped >25 lbs
Spent high quality time with family
Completed a 24 day basic mountaineering course with JIM & WS, Kashmir
Trekked >500km in 3 months across Sikkim, Nepal (solo), Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir
Learnt the basics of AI/ML through Deeplearning.ai courses, developed a much better understanding of the technology and it’s limitations
Became comfortable using Python for Data analysis
Caught up on reading, read >30 books
Explored some spaces for launching D2C businesses
Helped some friends think through their business plans
Figured out what I want to do in the next 5 years

Careeratlas

Owner

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos

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Swym

Product Manager

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr

Pharmarack

Head, Centre of Excellence, Customer Growth

Feb 2023 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Network & Revenue growth - Strategy & Operations
Field team integration management - merger of the sales team of an acquired organisation with the existing team, towards realising expected synergy benefits
Network growth planning & forecasting
Revenue enablement operations
Field resource planning & deployment
Field team skill elevation & enablement
Sales force automation tools & CRM development
Field KPIs, Incentives & SPIFF design operations
Discovery & pilot of new growth levers
GTM programs for new product launches
Frauds & Risk mitigation
Change management

Network growth planningRevenue enablement operationsChange managementSales force automation toolsField KPIs designStrategy and Operations+1

Udaan.com

4 roles

Growth, Pricing and Post order experience - B2C Projects

Sep 2022 – Feb 2023 · 5 mos

Online MarketplaceProblem SolvingBenefits DesignCross-functional Team LeadershipPerformance MonitoringEnd User Research+3

Senior Program Manager - Strategic Capabilities, Business Excellence

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

As part of the newly established Business Excellence division, I collaborate with Business, Tech, Product, Finance, Operations, Credit, and other teams to drive the design, development & adoption of
New sourcing models
Pricing strategy, Promotions effectiveness, and capability development for both
Processes towards improving buyer experience, buyer retention and organizational P&L improvement
This role encompasses elements of Strategy, Product Management, Product Marketing as well as Program Management

Product Road MappingProduct ManagementProgram ManagementProblem SolvingStrategic InitiativesStrategy

Cluster Sales & Market Development Manager, Electronics

May 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Rotational stint in sales
Executed penetration, growth, business quality improvement, fraud reduction & LFR engagement goals for udaan's Electronics business in Gujarat & Rajasthan
Recognized multiple times for various achievements - ranging from business growth, frauds reduction, business quality improvement, and leading new initiatives

Online MarketplaceProblem SolvingStrategic InitiativesSales ManagementSales StrategyMarket Development

Category Manager, Refurbished goods

May 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Managed the category P&L while simultaneously introducing structural changes to scale the category 10x
Identified & leveraged growth levers of Key Value Indicator (KVI) selection & pricing, quality promise, product warranty and consumer financing to acquire buyers, increase retention & monetization
Introduced segmentwise monetization to shape the take rate of the category to expectations, and launched warranty coverage for used phones (first time in the used goods B2B businesses in India) to increase the take rate beyond expectations
Product managed the launch of Marginal GST invoicing toward unlocking 60% of incremental business
Launched Tamper proofing ID stickers for individual units to stem pilfering across the supply chain
Launched and managed Target Linked Incentives for suppliers to scale the business with the required shape

Online MarketplaceP&L ManagementProduct ManagementCross-team Collaboration

Ti cycles of india

3 roles

Product Manager - Roadeo and Montra

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Led teams to conduct qualitative & quantitative consumer research
Derived consumer insights deploying design thinking and other methods
Managed the entire product development process from ideation to launch, managing the projects over a global supply chain

Problem SolvingBenefits DesignCross-functional CoordinationProduct ManagementDesign