Member story · Cohort 01 · August 2025

Fifteen years, code to product. Now sees AI differently

Mobile app security and fraud prevention at DoveRunner, after five years on AI for web and API security at F5. Fifteen years, from software engineering to product.

Pradeep’s portfolio
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Pradeep Reddy
Pradeep Reddy Principal Product Manager, DoveRunner
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In Pradeep’s own words

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

Pradeep ReddyCohort 01 · August 2025
Pradeep on the course

The program brilliantly blends AI concepts, hands-on tools, and real-world applications that redefine how product managers work.

It completely shifts your perspective on AI and delivers a tangible boost in productivity.

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What changed for Pradeep

Learned AI through hands-on tools.

Sees AI from a new perspective.

Got a real boost in productivity.

Pradeep learned alongside PMs from
Quest Publicis JPMorgan Chase Google Salesforce Oracle Barclays Airbnb Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Cisco Myntra Wadhwani Verizon Indeed Unilever Motorola Solutions Trellix Lowe's India EY F5 Quest Publicis JPMorgan Chase Google Salesforce Oracle Barclays Airbnb Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Cisco Myntra Wadhwani Verizon Indeed Unilever Motorola Solutions Trellix Lowe's India EY F5
The path

Engineering, security, product, and now AI

  1. 2009

    Senior Software Engineer

    Teleparadigm Networks

  2. 2017

    Senior Staff Engineer

    ADTRAN

  3. 2020

    Senior Product Owner

    F5

  4. 2023

    Senior Product Manager

    F5: AI for web and API security

  5. Aug 2025

    Curious PM

    Cohort 01, with 17 other PMs

  6. 2026

    Principal Product Manager

    DoveRunner: mobile app security

The work

What Pradeep built, and writes

See everything on Pradeep’s portfolio ↗
01 / 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.

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
Open ↗
What it teaches a PM

Why keeping state is the hard part of conversational AI.

03 / 03

Workspace agent over MCP

Connects Jira, Slack and Notion, so one plain-English request runs a workflow across all three.

MCP OpenAI AI Agents
Open ↗
What it teaches a PM

How MCP lets one agent work inside the tools a team already uses.

What Pradeep writes
pradeep.curious.pm3 min read ↗

Embracing change: reflections on career transitions in tech

How we respond to layoffs and pivots shapes a career more than the moments themselves.
Around Pradeep

Where Pradeep works, who Pradeep learned with

Where Pradeep works
Pradeep Reddy
DoveRunner

Principal Product Manager

Working on mobile app security.

Since 2026
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Pradeep ReddyPradeep
Cohort 01 · August 2025

Eighteen PMs, the first cohort

Pradeep Reddy Vinit Gujarathi Vinit Gujarathi Lokesh Leel Lokesh Leel Karine Majdalani Karine Majdalani Vidhika Chakravarti Vidhika Chakravarti Ranjith Kurukkath Ranjith Kurukkath Raunak Pandey Raunak Pandey Shreya Doreswamy Shreya Doreswamy Sambit Kumar Das Sambit Kumar Das Parasa Lakshmi Neeharika Parasa Lakshmi Neeharika Srinath Srinath Almas Ali Almas Ali Shyam Saha Shyam Saha Tanmayee Ambekar Tanmayee Ambekar Kancherla Guru Prasad Kancherla Guru Prasad Karthik R Iyer Karthik R Iyer TP Test participant A Ajinkya

Every PM from Cohort 01. Tap a face, or meet them one by one.

18 members · 12 weeks
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Your turn

Pradeep built these. What would you build?

Eight weekends of building real AI products with a small group of PMs. You leave with a portfolio like Pradeep’s.

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Nov 14, 2026
Length
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