Product Leader
Prashant Chandel
McCombs MBA · IIT Delhi · 5 years shipping AI products and leading data-driven teams across a $3.3B consumer marketplace, enterprise supply chain, and self-built AI platforms.
- Expertise
- AI Products
- ML · NLP · LLM
- Domain
- Supply Chain
- Dell · enterprise
- Background
- Data Science
- pricing · recommendations
- Education
- MBA + IIT
- McCombs · Delhi
About Me
I'm an MBA graduate from McCombs School of Business (UT Austin, Class of 2026) with a B.Tech in Engineering Physics from IIT Delhi. I bridge the gap between deep technical work and business outcomes -- I've led data science teams, shipped ML products to 1M+ users, and built AI tools from scratch.
At Cars24, a $3.3B consumer marketplace, I owned AI-powered discovery and recommendation products that drove new annual revenue, reduced customer churn and drove lift in purchase conversion. At Dell, I built a supply chain intelligence product that protected $14Mn revenue from order cancellations.
Outside of work I build AI products independently -- including a consumer platform for understanding AI research papers (200+ MAU) and an agentic writing system that turns strategy analysis into long-form content automatically.
Sord Scholar
Top GPA in MBA core
Dean's List
McCombs School of Business
$75K Merit Scholarship
UT Austin MBA
JEE: AIR 2543 out of 1.4 Million
IIT Delhi admit
Product & Strategy
AI & Data
Domain
Education
MBA, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
2024 – 2026 · Sord Scholar · Dean's List · $75K Merit Award
VP Alumni Engagement · TA Graduate Data Analytics · Operations Fellows
B.Tech Engineering Physics, IIT Delhi
2016 – 2020 · JEE Top 0.19 Percentile
Experience
Technical Program Manager
Dell Technologies
Austin, TX · Supply chain intelligence product for enterprise demand planning
- Built a supply chain intelligence product from scratch -- defined requirements, coordinated Product, Engineering, and Data Science across 6 teams.
- Drove a significant reduction in high-risk supply recommendations, protecting substantial revenue and preventing thousands of order cancellations.
Product Strategy Consultant
AT&T
Dallas, TX (via McCombs) · MBA consulting engagement, internal customer-facing tool redesign
- Redesigned a customer-facing tool used across AT&T retail operations.
- Delivered product recommendations and roadmap to senior AT&T leadership.
Data Scientist
PromotedBrainiac Award, A team Award, Quarterly AwardsCars24
Gurugram, India · $3.3B consumer marketplace · pricing, discovery, and recommendations
- Owned the recommendation product serving over a million monthly active buyers -- drove meaningful improvement in purchase conversion rate across the consumer marketplace.
- Built and owned the ML pricing model across the transaction platform, significantly improving prediction accuracy and delivering substantial cost savings.
Principal Analyst, Digital Transformation
Beer Shots Award, Quarterly RecognitionAB InBev
Bengaluru, India · Engineering automation and digital transformation
- Built automated testing and deployment infrastructure that meaningfully reduced engineering overhead year-over-year.
Software Engineer Intern
Pre Placement OfferPublicis Sapient
India · AI candidate screening system
- Built an AI candidate screening system using BERT-NER for resume parsing -- significantly improved throughput with strong F1 performance.
Featured Project
Building AI products independently to stay close to the technology I work with professionally.
AI Papers
prashant-chandel.org/papers
200+
Monthly active users
50+
Papers indexed
+127%
Weekly growth
AI Papers -- Research Made Accessible
A consumer AI platform built for product managers who need to understand AI research without a PhD. GPT-4o explains papers in plain language, a Paper Comparator shows trade-offs side by side, and a freemium Pro tier ($6/month) unlocks deeper features. Scheduled ingestion keeps the library fresh.
AI Chess Coach
Fetches your Chess.com games, runs Stockfish on every position to find blunders, then uses Claude to cluster recurring mistakes into 3 weakness patterns with examples. Practice mode pits you against Stockfish calibrated to your exact level.
Strategy Blog
prashant-chandel.org/blog
Weekly
auto-published
2500+
words per post
Zero
manual effort
Strategy Blog: AI & Business Intelligence
Weekly Acquired-style deep-dives on AI companies and strategy. Fully automated pipeline: Claude researches daily, compiles a polished 2500-word post every Sunday, and publishes with an SVG infographic and tweet thread -- zero manual effort.
Get In Touch
Open to senior PM, AI product, and data leadership roles. OPT available June 29, 2026 -- STEM OPT extension eligible for 3-year runway.
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