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Karan Sonawala

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led immersive tech initiatives at Flipkart.
  • Built India's first automated two-wheeler rental platform.
  • Pioneered AI-native systems for e-commerce.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in E-commerce and Transportation sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAiImmersive TechUser ExperienceGrowthResearch And Development

Other Skills

3DAI-generated modelsARAnalyticsBusiness PlanningCommunicationCustomer ExperienceData AnalyticsData VisualizationGenAIIoTJavaScriptLeadershipProblem SolvingProduct Development

Experience

Shopos

Founding Builder

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos

  • ShopOS is an AI-native Operating System for brands built to Make, Manage, and Market a business through autonomous agents, not dashboards.
  • Instead of stitching together tools, we’re rebuilding the commerce stack from scratch with AI agents that operate across content, storefronts, and customer experience.
  • As AI shifts from assistive to autonomous, brands need systems that do the work, not just support it.
  • Backed by Binny Bansal with $20M in funding. Already powering leading D2C and enterprise brands.
  • This is Day 1. Join us → shopos.ai/join-us
Product ManagementAICustomer ExperienceSoftware Development

Self-employed

Rewriting the Stack

May 2024May 2025 · 1 yr

  • Took a step back to think, explore and unlearn
  • Spent the year jamming with folks, learning across industries, diving into GenAI, and going deep on how tech could reshape the way products are made, marketed, and sold
  • Somewhere in that chaos, the dots started connecting

Flipkart

2 roles

Head - Immersive Commerce (Flipkart Labs)

Promoted

Jan 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Promoted to lead a net-new charter at the intersection of visual commerce, GenAI, and immersive tech.
  • Leading with speed, experimentation, and product-led storytelling at scale.
  • Led key bets across 3D, AR, virtual try-ons, AI-generated models, and GenAI-powered visuals
  • Defined Flipkart’s vision of becoming the most visually confident platform in Indian e-commerce
  • Rolled out full-funnel immersive journeys, from discovery to decision — impacting millions
  • Set up rapid prototyping cycles and internal IPs that made immersive scalable
  • Delivered measurable lifts in engagement, confidence, and conversion across categories
  • Anchored the team around fast impact, visual quality, and system-wide product thinking
  • This wasn’t about launching features, it was about reshaping how e-commerce looks, feels, and performs.
Immersive TechGenAIProduct Management

Product Manager – Emerging Tech

Jan 2022Dec 2022 · 11 mos

  • Wanted to build for scale. Joined Flipkart as one of its youngest PMs to lead a net-new charter focused on immersive tech.
  • Scaled 3D and AR try-ons across categories to millions of users
  • Found sharp PMF, brought startup hustle into the Flipkart engine, and built tight feedback loops that turned user reactions into measurable business outcomes
  • This laid the foundation for what came next.
Product Management3DARImmersive Tech

Vogo automotive pvt. ltd.

Founding Team | Engineering → Product

Oct 2017Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Jumped in during my engineering to help build India’s first fully automated two-wheeler rental platform
  • Started as an early engineer and grew into the product owner for multiple high-impact verticals — spanning consumer experience, growth, and platform pivots.
  • Shipped the first version of the Vogo app — full-stack build for automated rentals
  • Owned core user journeys from onboarding to payment to repeat rides
  • Set up and scaled product analytics infra, especially around custom IoT data streams
  • Led key product pivots during COVID — launching EV subscriptions, contactless rentals, and B2B rental layers
  • Rolled out retention and trust-focused features: safety protocols, rewards, ride summaries
  • Worked closely on key product narratives and long-term bets, leading up to what became Vogo’s successful acquisition by Chalo
  • Wore multiple hats across product, growth, and ops. Learned what it means to ship fast, iterate faster, and lead with context, not control.
Product ManagementAnalyticsGrowth

Wipro

Innovation & Tech Intern

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Started early, curious about the future. Interned at Wipro’s R&D lab in my first year of engineering, building AR experiences for retail. One of those prototypes went on to be showcased to brands in the Bay Area
  • Left with a Certificate of Appreciation from the VP and a seed of conviction around building tech that feels like magic
ARResearch and Development

Education

B. M. S. College of Engineering

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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