Poorva Bhalerao

Co-Founder

Stanford, California, United States6 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led product management for Windows 11 feature.
Founded online learning program for engineering students.
Awarded for leadership and innovation at Microsoft.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with strong expertise in AI-driven software solutions and logistics optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyTeam LeadershipOrganizational BehaviorManagementLeadershipArtificial Intelligence (ai)Project ManagementResearch Skills

Other Skills

DesignSupply Chain OptimizationStakeholder ManagementMentoringUniversity LecturingClassroom ManagementEducational TechnologyCross-functional Team LeadershipTransportationAgile MethodologiesStrategyRetailProduct DevelopmentCreative Problem SolvingStorytelling

About

I am a product manager at Walmart building transportation optimisation products for the largest middle mile logistics operation in the world. I am driven by creating opportunities and solutions that have tangible outcomes for others. My goal is to leverage my technical and analytical skills to build impactful products that solve real-world problems and improve people's lives. I have two years of software engineering experience at Microsoft, where I also took on a product management project for a key Windows 11 feature. I received four awards for my leadership, commitment, and innovation in this role. Additionally, I have worked on applied ML projects with Humans AI and Microsoft, where I developed a data labeling system and a recommendation system, respectively. I am honoured to receive the Pratibha Scholarship Award 2020, given by Eaton India to aspiring women engineers for all-round excellence and the Best Outgoing Student Award from my college.

Experience

6 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

10 mos

Current Experience

Walmart

2 roles

Product Manager

Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Bentonville, Arkansas, United States · On-site

Part of the End-to-end Flow Optimization Product team, building route and load optimization solutions for one of the largest middle-mile road networks in the world.

Product ManagementProduct StrategyDesignSupply Chain OptimizationStakeholder Management

Product Manager

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Bentonville, Arkansas, United States · On-site

Walmart Supply Chain - Innovation & Automation

Cross-functional Team LeadershipTransportationProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearch SkillsAgile Methodologies+4

Stanford university

Teaching Assistant

Apr 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · United States · On-site

Spr25 MS&E 180 Organizational Behavior: Theory and Management (Prof Arvind Karunakaran)
Win25 MS&E 284 Managing Data Science Orgranizations for Innovation and Impact (Prof Melissa Valentine)
Aut24 MS&E 180 Organizations: Theory and Management (Prof Kathleen Eisenhardt)
Spr24 MS&E 180 Organizational Behavior: Theory and Management (Prof Arvind Karunakaran)

Team LeadershipOrganizational BehaviorMentoringUniversity LecturingLeadershipClassroom Management+1

Stanford university graduate school of business

Graduate Course Assistant

Jan 2024 – Mar 2024 · 2 mos

Operations, Information and Technology (OIT) 274: Data and Decisions

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Product management for a key feature in Windows 11 Settings.

Creative Problem SolvingTeam LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipStorytellingCommunicationManagement+11

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – May 2022 · 10 mos

Building delightful account management experiences for millions of Microsoft users worldwide as part of the Windows+Devices org.
Received the 'Be A Leader': Leadership Excellence Award and the Star Award for strong leadership, commitment, and innovation.

Creative Problem SolvingTeam LeadershipStorytellingCommunicationProduct MarketingLeadership+7

Humans ai

ML Research Engineer Intern

Aug 2020 – May 2021 · 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Humans AI (formerly). Acquired in 2021.
College Capstone Project on Data Labeling using Weak Supervision

Creative Problem SolvingAnalytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Research SkillsProject ManagementSoft Skills+1

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

May 2020 – Jul 2020 · 2 mos

Built a recommendation system proof of concept for the Office In-client App Store
Worked with a dataset of 3.66 million rows and mined it using Azure Databricks to extract user behaviour patterns
Researched, built, evaluated and conducted comparative studies of collaborative filtering algorithms using Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks (PySpark) and Flask
Misc:
Hosted a Birds of a Feather event on "Recommender Systems: What works where?"at the Microsoft Spring MLADS 2020 conference

Creative Problem SolvingAnalytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Research SkillsCustomer-CentricityProduct Development

Summer of learning ccoew

Founder and Head

Apr 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune

SoL is a structured online learning program with a mentor-mentee structure to facilitate efficient learning through MOOCs with an aim to foster positive peer culture among students and equip them with cocurricular skills.

MarketingCreative Problem SolvingTeam LeadershipCommunicationManagementLeadership+4

Consortium for undergraduate research and education in astronomy, mt wilson observatory, usa

Project Researcher

Jun 2018 – Jul 2018 · 1 mo · Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, CA, USA

1 out of 6 undergraduates selected from all over the world to gain intense hands-on experience and training in observational solar and stellar astronomy.
Worked with the historic SNOW telescope at Mt Wilson and used their 16" Meade telescope for nighttime observing.
Completed a Double Star Astrometry project with good results.

Research Skills

Iucaa, pune, india

Project Intern

Jan 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune, India

Project Intern, Observation Planner Software Design team of the international Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarization High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE) collaboration
Designed a unique algorithm to solve the dynamic scheduling problem in astronomical surveys, after conducting independent research and analysis of existing techniques; collaborating with scientists from India, Greece, South Africa, Norway and USA.
Performed requirements analysis, constraints analysis and constructed a merit-based mathematical function to optimize PASIPHAE survey scheduling in Greece and South Africa.
Learnt the required technologies and implemented the core mathematical module in Python 3

Research Skills

Aasamant: astronomy club of ccew

Founder and Head

Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs · MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India

Organised events and activities, convened meetings, conducted courses in astronomy and did public outreach on behalf of the club, reaching 500+ students and general public

MarketingTeam LeadershipCommunicationManagementProduct MarketingLeadership+1