Member story · Cohort 01 · August 2025

Two decades in telecom. AI, now part of product strategy

Senior product manager at F5, leading 5G cloud-native strategy, after twenty years of telecom product development at Oracle, Mitel and MegaSoft.

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In Guru’s own words

What Guru wrote about the course after Cohort 01. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Guru? I’ll intro you.

Guru PrasadCohort 01 · August 2025
Guru on the course

This course truly transforms your perspective. As a Senior Product Manager, it deepened my understanding of AI concepts and demonstrated practical ways to integrate them into product strategy.

The hands-on projects and real-world examples made complex topics approachable and actionable.

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What changed for Guru

AI concepts, understood deeper.

Practical ways into product strategy.

Complex topics made approachable and actionable.

Guru learned alongside PMs from
Quest American Express Publicis
Morgan Stanley Google PhonePe
Salesforce Oracle NVIDIA
Barclays Airbnb JPMorgan Chase
Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Amazon
Cisco Palo Alto Networks Myntra
Intuit Tesco Technology Verizon
Indeed Caterpillar Unilever
Motorola Solutions Zoho Trellix
U.S. Bank Lowe's India EY
F5
The path

Protocols, engineering, product, and now AI

  1. 2006

    Project Lead

    MegaSoft

  2. 2014

    Senior Technical Lead

    Mitel (Mavenir)

  3. 2015

    Software Development Manager

    Oracle

  4. 2019

    Senior Product Manager

    F5

  5. Aug 2025

    Curious PM

    Cohort 01, August 2025

The work

What Guru built, and writes

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01 / 03

Modular AI chatbot platform

A series of chatbots, each a step further: from a basic prototype to one with memory, tools and a database behind it.

OpenAI Streamlit Python
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What it teaches a PM

What makes a chatbot useful is memory and tools, not the model alone.

02 / 03

Podcast search with RAG

Turns podcast episodes into vector embeddings, so you can ask a question and get the answer from what was actually said.

RAG Pinecone Streamlit
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What it teaches a PM

How retrieval keeps an answer grounded in real content.

03 / 03

Autonomous job-search agent

An agent that searches job listings, reads each one and recommends the right roles, step by step on its own.

AI Agents OpenAI Python
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What it teaches a PM

When a task needs an agent, and when one prompt will do.

What Guru writes
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The 5G cloud-native transformation

What it actually means for product.
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Product management in telecom

The unique challenges.
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Two decades in telecom

Lessons that compound.
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Guru Prasad
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Senior Product Manager

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34 PMs, in their own words

Guru Prasad Neeharika Parasa Neeharika Parasa Raunak Pandey Raunak Pandey Ranjith Kurukkath Ranjith Kurukkath Vinit Gujarathi Vinit Gujarathi Pradeep Reddy Pradeep Reddy Vidhika Chakravarti Vidhika Chakravarti Lokesh Leel Lokesh Leel Karine Majdalani Karine Majdalani Siddharth Chauhan Siddharth Chauhan N. Sambit Suman N. Sambit Suman Nandhini Sivakumar Nandhini Sivakumar Amit Mohod Amit Mohod Kaustubh Chaturvedi Kaustubh Chaturvedi Pallavi Rajmohan Pallavi Rajmohan Adarsh Patnaik Adarsh Patnaik

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