Member story · Cohort 08 · August 2026

Developer, then enterprise PM. Hands-on now, building products

Senior Product Manager, most recently at ServiceNow, where she built AI Control Tower from zero to one. Enterprise and SaaS product at Zenoti and OpenText before that, after four years as a developer at Oracle.

Spandana’s portfolio

Spandana Kintali Senior Product Manager at ServiceNow

Spandana’s feedback

In Spandana’s own words

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

Spandana KintaliCohort 08 · August 2026

Spandana on the course

The 8 weekends equip learners to become hands-on with AI and become a product builder.

Building AI use cases as a group with the concepts learnt during the live sessions helped me retain better.

Overall, these 8 weekends help PMs gain a deep understanding of Gen AI concepts to collaborate effectively with engineers.

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What changed for Spandana

Hands-on with AI, a product builder.

Built as a group, retained better.

Gen AI concepts, to work with engineers.

Spandana learned alongside PMs from

The path

From developer to enterprise product

2014
Applications Developer
Oracle
2019
Product Manager
OpenText
2021
Senior Product Manager
ServiceNow
Aug 2026
Curious PM
Cohort 08, August 2026

The work

What Spandana built, and writes

See everything on Spandana’s portfolio ↗

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Database-connected AI chatbot with evals

A chatbot built in five stages, from a plain OpenAI call to one with conversation memory, tools and a live database behind it, then every answer traced in Langfuse and scored by AI judges.

OpenAI Streamlit PostgreSQL Langfuse

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What it teaches a PM

Memory was the smallest change with the largest effect; evals made the answers measurable.

02 / 04

Podcast search engine and MCP server

Semantic search over a thousand podcast episodes, then the same engine exposed over the Model Context Protocol so an AI assistant can search, keep notes and run research briefs.

MCP RAG Pinecone FastMCP

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What it teaches a PM

An MCP endpoint is a live API: ship it with auth.

03 / 04

Podcast RAG and fine-tuning

Question answering over 149 podcast transcripts, whole episodes and 900-character chunks side by side, then a small open model fine-tuned with LoRA to speak in a chosen persona.

RAG Pinecone Claude Fine-Tuning

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What it teaches a PM

Retrieval for facts the model has never seen, fine-tuning for how it speaks.

04 / 04

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 Spandana writes

spandana.curious.pm3 min read ↗