Member story · Cohort 08 · August 2026

From engineer to PM. Now building, not just reading

Owns Tesco’s national ordering engine, the system that decides what gets ordered, from where and for which depot. An engineer at EY before an MBA and product at Optum.

Sunil’s portfolio

Sunil S Sakri Product Manager at Tesco

Sunil’s feedback

In Sunil’s own words

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

Sunil S SakriCohort 08 · August 2026

Sunil on the course

I would not consider this a course. It was more about learning from someone who has gone very deep in this area.

This program gave me a direction on how to start thinking about the use cases and the implications around them. The hands-on experiments helped me understand the basics of each aspect and forced me to think through the complexity.

Would definitely recommend it if you want to start building and experimenting on your own rather than just reading the concepts.

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What changed for Sunil

A direction on use cases and their implications.

Experiments that force the complexity into view.

Building and experimenting, not just reading.

Sunil learned alongside PMs from

The path

Engineering, an MBA, and product at scale

2016
Software Engineer
Ernst and Young
2022
Associate Product Manager
Optum
2023
Associate Product Manager
Tesco Technology
2024
Product Manager, Supply Chain and Fulfilment
Tesco Technology
Aug 2026
Curious PM
Cohort 08, August 2026

The work

What Sunil 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 Sunil writes

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