Member story · Cohort 08 · August 2026

QA, payments, product. AI connected to strategy and execution

Senior Product Manager at Stixis Technologies, owning payments and loyalty products for convenience retail in North America. Payments and checkout for 6thStreet across the GCC before that, and SWIFT at Finastra.

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What Shivaprasad wrote about the course after Cohort 08. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Shivaprasad? I’ll intro you.

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Shivaprasad on the course

Great 8 weekends with Ankit and his team!

The hands-on approach and Ankit’s ability to simplify complex AI concepts helped me better connect AI capabilities with product strategy and execution.

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What changed for Shivaprasad

Complex AI concepts, simplified.

Hands-on from the first weekend.

AI connected to strategy and execution.

Shivaprasad 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

From QA to payments product

  1. 2013

    Senior Engineer

    SLK

  2. 2015

    Senior Engineer

    Finastra

  3. 2020

    Product Development Manager

    6thStreet.com

  4. 2024

    Senior Product Manager

    Stixis Technologies

  5. Aug 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 08, August 2026

The work

What Shivaprasad built, and writes

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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.

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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.

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Personal AI agent with voice

One agent loop that searches and reads the web, remembers you between sessions, runs a job search from your resume and answers the phone, with chat and voice sharing one memory.

AI Agents mem0 ElevenLabs Twilio
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What it teaches a PM

The assistant grows by registering tools, not by adding branches.

What Shivaprasad writes
shivaprasad.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Checkout Conversion Is Often a Payments Problem

Four years leading payments and checkout across the GCC and Egypt: a large share of lost orders is in the payment step, not the page design.
shivaprasad.curious.pm3 min read ↗

Compliance Releases Should Be Boring

Five years of SWIFT compliance releases at Finastra, with a date nobody can move, and what makes such a release uneventful.
shivaprasad.curious.pm3 min read ↗

What Quality Assurance Taught Me About Product Management

A career that began in QA for banking and payments, and why that path was a straight line into product rather than a change of direction.
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