Mandar Nilange

Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India26 yrs 4 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Founder of Rikonect, focusing on meaningful online experiences.
Reduced cloud costs by 50% at FITTR.
Implemented GenAI recommendation engine to enhance conversions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused technology leader with extensive product management experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStart-up LeadershipProduct StrategyTechnology StrategyProduct DevelopmentCloud ComputingArtificial Intelligence (ai)Infrastructure ManagementTechnology Product DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureAccount Management

Other Skills

AI AgentsAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application DevelopmentApplication FrameworksBehavioral HealthBlockchainBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness OwnershipBusiness ProcessCRMCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Compliance

About

Building Rikonect - a platform that helps people live meaningful and happy life. I am hardcore technologist, love building products and builder at core. Speaks and writes on various topics such as Product Management, Technology, DevOps, Agile, Web and AI / GenAI. Startups | Technology and Product Leader | AI | DevOps | AWS & GCP | Web | Mobile | Distributed Apps Not certified Product development, Cloud, Agile and DevOps expert | No top voice badge but expert of product and technology.

Experience

26 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Rikonect

Founder

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

My journey to building Rikonect is deeply personal, born from years of observing how online spaces can both connect and distract us, alongside valuable lessons learned from past wide experience. This experience has fueled the conviction that a better, more intentional online world is possible.
I am a certified NLP practitioner, bringing a deep understanding of human behavior and habit formation to Rikonect's foundational approach. The Rikonect team is further supported by an advisory team expert in behavior science and NLP, ensuring our solutions are rooted in robust principles of human psychology.

Business OwnershipStart-up VenturesStart-up LeadershipProduct ManagementWellnessBehavioral Health+2

Mentorgain

Advisor

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Product and Technology Advisor

Product StrategyTechnology StrategyStrategyEarly-Stage StartupsStartups

Fittr

Head of Product and Technology

Mar 2021 – May 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Technology leader responsible for engineering and infrastructure teams.
Reduced cloud costs by 50%
Setup Agile and SRE practices to improve effectiveness of the team delivering more value
Implemented GenAI based recommendation engine improving the conversion in purchase funnel
Achieved CIS compliant infrastructure, CERT-IN certification and setup best practices
Implemented observability stack to measure system availability, error free requests, response times and business metrics. Automated call alerts for the failures through PagerDuty integration.
Spearheaded technology re-architecture. implementing clean architecture, leading to 99.99% availability and P95 response times lesser than 100ms
Implemented robust automation of builds, deployments and other backend systems, saving thousands of development team hours and 100% successful deployments with no errors on configuration