Member story · Cohort 01 · August 2025

No coding background. Built her own chat and voice agents

Digital strategy at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, after four years of product at UltraTech Cement and engineering at Infosys. An IIM Trichy MBA.

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In Neeharika’s own words

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

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Neeharika on the course

I joined with no coding background, but the guidance and practical approach made complex topics easy to understand.

Building our own chat and voice agents boosted my confidence to explore AI tools.

I’m at the start of my AI journey, but now have clarity and momentum to keep progressing.

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What changed for Neeharika

Built her own chat and voice agents.

Complex topics made easy, with no coding background.

Clarity and momentum to keep going.

Neeharika 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
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The path

Engineering, an MBA, product, and now AI

  1. 2016

    Senior System Engineer

    Infosys

  2. 2022

    Management Trainee

    UltraTech Cement

  3. 2023

    Product Manager

    UltraTech Cement

  4. Aug 2025

    Curious PM

    Cohort 01, August 2025

  5. 2026

    Manager, Digital Strategy

    Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail

The work

What Neeharika 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

Voice assistant that remembers

A phone-based voice assistant that remembers earlier calls and picks up where the last one ended.

Twilio ElevenLabs Webhooks
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What it teaches a PM

Why keeping state is the hard part of conversational AI.

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 Neeharika writes
neeharika.curious.pm2 min read ↗

Building products that matter

Reflections on recognition and purpose.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle

Sustainability lessons from e-commerce packaging.
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Mental health in uncertain times

Building resilience when it matters most.
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Neeharika Parasa
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail

Manager, Digital Strategy

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34 PMs, in their own words

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