Siddharth Pratahkal

Product Manager

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in AI-driven product management and strategy.
Dual MBA/Master's from Yale with extensive VC experience.
Led impactful projects in deep tech and social enterprises.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in AI and venture capital in the SaaS and deep tech industries.

Contact

siddpratahkal@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyInvestmentsDue DiligenceManagement ConsultingGo-to-market StrategyGenerative AiLeadershipMachine LearningOperations Research

Other Skills

AI DefenseAI HardwareAI-driven solutionsAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Assembly LanguageBrain ResearchBusiness DevelopmentBusiness ExpansionBusiness Intelligence (BI)Business StrategyC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

About

Product Manager at Cisco. I focus on AI everything in Routing in the Enterprise Networking group. With a dual MBA/Master's in Asset Management from the Yale School of Management, I've worked across venture capital (Connecticut Innovations, Z5 Capital), product management (software and hardware), and consulting (Bain). I regularly collaborate with Dallas VC (whitepaper on Generative AI, blog on investing to secure GenAI, newsletter on State of AI Agents today), and have worked on deep tech faculty projects' GTM at Yale Ventures. Prior to business school, I led a consultancy for social enterprises. I finished my Bachelors' (Honors) degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning from IIT Madras. A passionate problem-solver, I'm highly interested in the confluence of business, deep tech, investing and its positive impact on society. Outside of the professional sphere, I enjoy swimming, playing badminton, hiking, and writing narrative poetry.

Experience

4 yrs

Total Experience

9 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Cisco

Product Manager

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · San Jose, California, United States

AI everything in Routing in the Enterprise Networking group

Product ManagementProduct StrategyAI DefenseProduct DesignEnterprise Routing

Connecticut innovations

Investments, CEO's Office

Nov 2024 – May 2025 · 6 mos · New Haven, Connecticut, United States · Hybrid

Got to meet Indra Nooyi! State of CT's venture capital arm with over $500M AUM.
Did a lot of sourcing: Cross-border US/India, seed to late-stage, sector agnostic
Conducted some due diligence: Deep tech, AI, SaaS, advanced manufacturing, and FinTech
Operations: Helped organize CI's international pitch fest at IITMRP

Due DiligenceInvestmentsDeal SourcingFund operationsMarketing Strategy

Bain & company

Summer Associate

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Organizational transformation of Qatar's largest energy company
Competitive benchmarking, contingent workforce management
Governance and standardizing decision roles

Management ConsultingInterpersonal SkillsCompetitive Analysis

Stepfunction

Product Manager

Oct 2023 – May 2024 · 7 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

AI-driven customer success platform fueling growth at SaaS companies.
Feature prioritization for copilot MVP, user personas, churn, upsell, and cross-sell predictions
PRDs, feature improvements, data connectors, and cloud integration
Collaborating with engineers and designers to reduce UI/UX friction
For Z5 Capital:
AI/ML fund strategy for the second fund
Website design and revamp

Product ManagementEarly-Stage StartupsEnterprise Software

Tetramem - accelerate the world

Product Manager

May 2023 – Sep 2023 · 4 mos · Fremont, California, United States · On-site

Analog in-memory computing System-on-Chip for AI edge inference.
GTM strategy, key value propositions, mapping use cases to chip technical specs
PRD/MRD, customer personas, Jira customer portal design
Multi-release product roadmaps, market sizing, competitive positioning

Product ManagementAI HardwareEarly-Stage StartupsGo-to-Market StrategyProduct Strategy

Dallas venture capital

Analyst

Feb 2023 – Jun 2023 · 4 mos

Whitepaper on Generative AI
Cybersecurity X Gen AI
State of AI Agents Today

Generative AIMarket ResearchInvestment MemoVenture Capital

180 degrees consulting iit madras

2 roles

President

Promoted

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr

▪ Won the 'Most Improved Branch' in Asia Pacific 2021
▪ Led a 4-tiered, 52 membered-team at the IIT Madras branch of the world’s largest university-based consultancy aiming at non-profits, NGOs, social enterprises and government stakeholders.

GrowthProject ManagementLeadershipManagement Consulting

Director of Sponsorship and Event Management

May 2020 – Apr 2021 · 11 mos

▪ Spearheaded the 1st ever national-level crowdsourced case study competition in association with CEEW.
▪ Co-lead of Project Nirmaan (pre-incubation cell of IITM) for diversification and expansion strategies and Project Avaz (Picture-based Communication & Learning App for people with special needs) for market entry and competitor analysis.
▪ Hosted the branch's 1st Consulting Bootcamp with MBB recruits from the country's premium colleges.

Product ManagementBusiness ExpansionManagementTeamworkTeam Leadership

Itc limited

KITES Technical Intern

May 2021 – Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Life Sciences and Technology Centre, Bengaluru

▪ Deep Learning Methods For Image Classification for Biomolecular applications, Skincare and Cosmetics, Agriculture Quality Detection and Satellite Image Analytics.
▪ Offered a PPO for commendable performance during the internship

Analytical SkillsMachine LearningDeep LearningMicrosoft OfficePyTorchComputer Vision+2

Northwestern university - kellogg school of management

Research Intern

May 2020 – Jul 2020 · 2 mos

Operations research project on shaping pandemic-related public policy through statistical language processing of news articles

Graphical NetworksData MiningWeb ScrapingOperations Research

Embibe

Content Developer

May 2020 – Jun 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Ensured 800+ error-free solutions from the creation to direct deployability on the React App and website on the Embibe AI test platform.

Infosys

'SPARK' Catch Them Young programme

Apr 2014 – Apr 2014 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

▪ Selected as part of the top 40 students across 100+ schools
▪ Topics such as Cloud Computing, Software Development Methodology Analysis, Databases, Visual Studio, Web Application Development, Mobile Application Development, Adobe Photoshop, Software Testing were taught by employees