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Pavankumar Kamat

Co-Founder

London, England, United Kingdom8 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered India's first domain-specific LLM for financial services.
  • Transformed bank account verification process, enhancing efficiency.
  • Founded a startup focused on healthy coastal food products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership and product management skills.

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LeadershipResearchStrategic PlanningNetwork EngineeringProduct ManagementCustomer SuccessSalesStrategyInternet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)TroubleshootingFirewallsComputer NetworkingResearch and Development (R&D)EngineeringInternet Protocol (IP)

About

AI dev tools itseems! In past avatar, I have changed how India verifies their bank accounts, driven financial inclusion for bharat and worked to bring healthy coastal food products to mainstream markets.

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 3 mos
Current Experience

Panto

Co-Founder

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Singapore · On-site

  • Enabling developers to Code Better and Ship Faster!

Indian startup desktop

Podcast Host

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Setu

4 roles

Product Manager

Promoted

Jan 2023Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Changed the way India verifies bank accounts. 3 minutes to 30s, 40 to 4 clicks. My contributions to the Reverse Penny Drop product, an industry-first solution to validate customer bank accounts on UPI, has been instrumental in setting new benchmarks in the industry. Built Data Gateway Vertical from scratch to 1M+ daily API hits now and growing.
  • Setu Aadhar-based E-Sign solution delivered 30% more conversions, compared to other solutions in the market.
  • I am a seasoned API platform specialist, with expertise in hosting a range of identity verification products.

Associate Product Manager

Feb 2022Dec 2022 · 10 mos

  • As a Product Owner for Setu Identity, I successfully strategized and executed market research, product cohort analysis, UI/UX design, and customer behaviour analytics for identity verification products.

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Apr 2021Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Product lead for SeSaMe - India's 1st domain-specific LLM for financial services. Developed a LLM leveraging billions of Indian payment transaction records. This innovative model accurately assesses customer financial health, providing valuable insights for lending and personal finance management tailored specifically for the Indian market.

Generalist(Sales, Partnerships and New Initiatives)

Apr 2021Jan 2022 · 9 mos

  • Worked with large banks, MNC’s, Fintechs to partner and build sales pipeline for payment products like Bharat Billpay, Whatsapp Payments, Lending Collections suite.
  • Explore fintech and identify market opportunities.

Aryaka networks

Network Application Engineer

Jul 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developed shell scripts to better handle logging on the aggregation servers.
  • ● Conceptualized innovative solutions to implement the product in customers’ existing network topology.
  • ● Instrumental in troubleshooting escalations due to network component failures due to internal factors like code bugs which resulted in very short timeouts and external factors like service provider emergency maintenances.
  • ● Proactively wrote the standard operating procedure documents to troubleshoot issues like TCP connection timeouts, SSH file transfer issues over the cloud.
  • ● Worked on Troubleshooting network issues on customer infrastructures deployed to AWS and Azure cloud services.
  • ● Technologies and tools used – Shell scripting, Nagios, Jira, Python, C, Salesforce, AWS, Azure

Indian institute of science (iisc)

Research Intern

Jan 2019Oct 2019 · 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on project for Indian Railways to determine fouling in ballast substructures to avoid derailment of trains through non invasive techniques using a ground penetrating radar (GPR).
  • Use of extensive image processing to find an inter collation between radar SeGY values to pixelates for determining percentage of fouling involved. Increased average accuracy in final results by 28% when compared to generic softwares used for image processing.

Coastal basket

Founder

Dec 2018Jun 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • With an aim to rectify the flaw in supply chain of food industry by bringing healthy coastal food products to the consumer. On the way to establish a line of products that speak out to the world TASTY CAN BE HEALTHY!
  • Identified opportunities to introduce healthy snacking options to the F&B market and worked on delivering the solution.
  • Went ahead of its time in implementing WSAI(workspace as inventories) Model for customers at workspaces and doubling it as an inventory for online customers.
  • Developed an affiliation to Wi-Fi network used in office spaces to run relevant internal ads and sold the products thereby generating revenue.
  • Built a strong feedback channel with 99 percent rate of customer response in getting feedback.
  • Building online communities for bringing together the entire customer base and converting it as a sales channel.
  • Transitioning from B2C to B2B business model and increasing the sales by 100x by working with clients like Cult. fit, eat.fit, Clayworks.
  • Building Infrastructure for Operations, Supply chain and logistics, Vendor management, Packaging, Digital marketing, Graphic design and managing tech team.
  • Effectively managed a team of 12 people on ground as well as remotely while developing business stratergies and setting long term and short term goals.

Isro - indian space research organization

Intern

Jun 2018Jul 2018 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Was involved in building an All Terrain Rover prototype with a different approach based on principles of eccentricity with 360 turning capabilities at single point of contact. The rover also maintained a low centre of gravity making it more economic on power consumption. The project was considered for testing by ISRO RRSC testing facility.

Pendios technologies private limited

Research And Development Engineer

Feb 2018Dec 2018 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Providing intensive electronic Instruments of military standards and their research and development for Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd and Indian Airforce.

Vesto education solutions

Product Management Intern

Jan 2018Feb 2018 · 1 mo · Mysore

  • Worked as an Intern for Innovation in product design and product development.
  • Built products from scratch starting R&D to launch.

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics and Instrumentation Technology

Aug 2015Jun 2019

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