Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• AI/ML Platform Product Manager for Ernst & Young (EY)

May 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Led the design and implementation of the MBA Spotlight Registration Dashboard making it easy to use and increasing the number of user registrations by 3.3X
• Scheduled and organized 370+ business school admissions sessions on GMATClub's YouTube and Zoom channels across several MBA Spotlight Virtual MBA Fairs with admissions personnel rating sessions as 4.8/5 and attendees rating sessions as 4.9/5.
• Recruited and managed 140+ business school applicants as moderators for GMATClub’s MBA forums forming a tight-knit community of MBA students and alumni.
• Solicited and collected 2500+ real MBA interview experiences from applicants helping prospective applicants better prepare for their admissions interviews with 2.5M+ page visits per year
• Ideated and organized GMATClub Connect which includes 25+ interview preparation sessions for 1200+ business school applicants with 950+ applicants gaining admission to their target MBA programs.
• Strengthened GMATClub’s Decision Tracker database by aggregating more than 75K+ admissions decisions over a span of 3 years
• Collaborated with MBA students and alumni to facilitate mentorship to prospective MBA students in exchange for a donation to organizations leading India’s COVID fight raising $35,000+ for securing oxygen concentrators
• Designed and led RC Butler test-prep strategy increasing user participation by 2X and traffic by 1.5X for a community of 1 Million test-takers
• Created and maintained GMATClub Podcast with 40+ episodes and 25K+ downloads and 1K+ downloads per week

Aug 2020 – Nov 2020 · 3 mos

• Reviewed 38 applications, interviewed 23 and endorsed 5 for the TeachForIndia Fellowship with a decision-making alignment of 67%(TFI national average 28%) impacting the lives of 200 children

Apr 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs

• Taught English, Math and Social to 79 Grade 7 and 8 students for 2 years
• Reduced the Literacy Gap to grade by bringing all the students to reading/writing level 1.5 or above
• Accomplished the goal of 100% of the students having 50% mastery or above and 40% of the students having 70% mastery or above in Math and Social assessments
• Created and led the fundraiser for my students so they continue Grade 9 & 10 raising INR 5.5 lakhs for 17 students with everyone graduating Grade 10 https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-my-students-2
• Created and led the fundraiser to buy 15 smart devices for my students to continue online education during COVID lockdown https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-nikhil-lingutla
• Created and led the fundraiser to improve our school infrastructure raising INR 1.8 lakhs https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-nikhil-14
• Partnered with The Better Design Foundation improving our school and classroom infrastructure and increasing student collaboration by 37% and critical thinking by 61%
• Partnered with JP Morgan under Tech For Social Good initiative to develop a student management dashboard for teachers to effectively manage online/remote learning, student assessments impacting hundreds of classrooms and thousands of students
• Designed and Led the Be The Change Project to train the teachers in our community with 8 teachers participating impacting 600+ students.

Oct 2016 – Sep 2017 · 11 mos · Palo Alto

Jan 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Palo Alto

Jun 2013 – Dec 2013 · 6 mos · San Mateo

• Automated the test suite increasing the speed of product delivery by 37% and reducing the manual testing time required by 5 hours/day
• Optimized the test suite reducing the time required for the product testing by 22%

Jun 2012 – Sep 2012 · 3 mos · Greater San Diego Area

Sep 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs · Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Investigating, implementing, and evaluating different image Segmentation algorithms for an Image Segmentation and Annotation tool. Worked on Object recognition and Machine Learning algorithms for images using Java under mentoring of Prof Sinisa Todorovic and Prof Pankaj jaiswal.

Aug 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Machine Learning and Computer Vision group.

Jan 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Machine Learning - Recommender systems using collaborative filtering systems to determine users' tastes and interests as they search the Internet.