Product strategy
From customer discovery to a roadmap the business can commit to.
- Customer and requirement discovery
- BRDs and PRDs
- Prioritisation and roadmap shaping
- 0-to-1 product development
Shivam Mishra / Portfolio
Head of Product · Technology Leader
Leading product and engineering for AI-native software.
13+ years across software delivery, technical training, data and AI consulting, and product leadership. Since 2019 I have led product and engineering for AI hiring systems: skills assessments, candidate screening, and conversational interviews.
- Years across technology and product
- 13+
- Production AI systems delivered
- 7+
- Proofs of concept and R&D
- 15+
- Leading product and engineering since
- 2019
Leadership
One role across strategy, architecture, delivery, and teams.
Architecture
Direction for AI systems that have to survive production load.
- Architecture direction
- RAG pipelines and LLM orchestration
- Agent-based automation
- Cloud microservices on AWS
Enterprise delivery
Turning demos into rollouts, and rollouts into adoption.
- Release planning
- Requirement workshops and demos
- Client-facing rollout
- Escalation handling
Teams
Building the people and operating rhythm behind the product.
- Helped build and scale the India operation
- Team building and mentoring
- Delivery governance
- Cross-functional coordination
Systems · 3 in production
ProductionEvaluation
Enterprise Skills Assessment Platform
Skills evaluation for enterprise hiring teams: coding and data-science tests, source-code verification, remote proctoring, and analytics across a 500+ skill library.
My role — Product and technology leadership — discovery, prioritisation, architecture direction, release planning, rollout.
Capability flow
- Skill library
- Candidate attempt
- Proctoring signals
- Code verification
- Analytics
PythonCode analysisVideo analyticsAWS
Architecture
Layers I design across.
- L5ExperienceRecruiter assistant · Assessments · Conversational interviews · ReportingProduct surfaces
- L4OrchestrationAgentic workflows · LLM orchestration · Multi-turn flowsLangChainAgents
- L3IntelligenceLLMs · NLP · Prompt engineering · ClassificationOpenAI APIsHugging Face
- L2Retrieval & dataEmbeddings · Vector search · Résumé parsing · AnalyticsPostgreSQLSQL
- L1PlatformMicroservices · REST APIs · Containers · ServerlessAWSDocker
Changelog
Career, release by release.
Apr 2019 — Present
v5.0
Product & engineering leadership · Head of Product
Otomeyt AI · Bengaluru
AI hiring technology. End-to-end product thinking with hands-on AI system design.
- +Led productisation of AI across résumé parsing, NLP, video analytics, and code evaluation.
- +Delivered 7+ production AI systems and 15+ proofs of concept, converting several into enterprise-scale features.
- +Helped build and scale the India operation with leadership.
Jul 2017 — Oct 2018
v4.0
Big Data & AI Consultant
Paness IIHT · Cameroon
AI/ML consulting: chatbots, data mining, and analytics-led business support for clients.
- +Translated business requirements into implementable technical solutions.
- +Trained junior analysts; supported client delivery.
Apr 2014 — Jul 2017
v3.0
Technical Manager
ASIT
Helped initiate a software-development division and managed delivery of new initiatives.
- +Defined design and functional scope for a job-portal product.
- +Trained employees and freshers on current technologies.
Aug 2013 — Mar 2014
v2.0
Independent Developer & Trainer
Self-employed
Built college-level software projects and trained students on development practices.
Aug 2012 — Aug 2013
v1.0
Technical Trainer
NIIT
Technical training for freshers and working professionals.
Milestones
PoC to production
Converted multiple proofs of concept into enterprise-scale features used in high-volume hiring workflows.
AI-native platform
Embedded agentic workflows and LLM decision layers across screening, assessments, and interviews.
Scaled an operation
Helped build and scale the India operation, partnering on product direction and execution priorities.
Started a division
Helped initiate a software-development division and delivered its first initiatives.
R&D tracker
15+ proofs of concept, by status.
A selection of the areas behind them. Many shipped as production capabilities.
- RND-01Résumé intelligenceDocument AI · ProductionStructured extraction from unstructured résumés.Document AI
- RND-02Semantic JD–CV matchingRetrieval · ProductionEmbeddings and vector search over role and candidate context.Retrieval
- RND-03LLM ranking and shortlist reasoningLLMs · ProductionRanking candidates with explainable reasoning.LLMs
- RND-04Context-aware question generationGeneration · ProductionTechnical questions grounded in the role and the candidate.Generation
- RND-05Structured candidate reportsGeneration · ProductionRecruiter-ready summaries from screening signals.Generation
- RND-06Source-code analysis and evaluationCode AI · ProductionEvaluating submitted code beyond pass/fail tests.Code AI
- RND-07Video analytics for assessmentsVision · ProductionProctoring signals that support human review.Vision
- RND-08Agentic interview orchestrationAgents · ProductionMulti-turn flows with adaptive follow-ups.Agents
- RND-09Written and spoken answer evaluationSpeech + LLMs · DevelopedSpeech-to-text combined with LLM evaluation.Speech + LLMs
- RND-10Real-time voice turn latencyVoice · ResearchHow turn-taking and latency shape a voice interview.Voice
- RND-11Enterprise chatbotsConversational AI · Client deliveryDelivered for consulting clients, 2017–18.Conversational AI
- RND-12Data mining and decision supportAnalytics · Client deliveryAnalytics-led business support for clients.Analytics
Writing
“Accuracy alone doesn’t drive adoption. Workflow fit does.”
Building an AI-native product?
Open to conversations with founders and technology leaders.
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