Member story · Cohort 08 · August 2026

From pre-sales to product. Built with AI, not just studied it

Staff Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks, on mobile authentication. Product at WSAudiology, Quixy and Cognizant before that.

Sidhartha’s portfolio

Sidhartha Pooboni Staff Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks

Sidhartha’s feedback

In Sidhartha’s own words

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

Sidhartha PooboniCohort 08 · August 2026

Sidhartha on the course

I joined Curious PM to understand where AI fits across the product lifecycle, and the hands-on projects were the real differentiator.

Instead of just studying AI, I built with it, which gave me the technical depth to make better product decisions.

It also changed how I approach discovery, ideation and delivery, helping me validate ideas and ship faster with tighter feedback loops.

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What changed for Sidhartha

Built with AI, not just studied it.

Technical depth for better product decisions.

Faster shipping, tighter feedback loops.

Sidhartha learned alongside PMs from

The path

Business analysis, then product, now security

2017
Senior Manager, Business Analysis
Cognizant
2021
Product Manager
Quixy
2023
Product Manager
WSAudiology
2026
Staff Product Manager
Palo Alto Networks
Aug 2026
Curious PM
Cohort 08, August 2026

The work

What Sidhartha 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 Sidhartha writes

sidhartha.curious.pm3 min read ↗