Experience-05.25

Ankita Bhargava - Resume & Experience
LinkedIn | Portfolio I [email protected] I (510) 838-5422 | San Francisco Bay, CA
SUMMARY
AI-first Product Leader with 10+ years building SaaS, cloud-native, and AI-powered platforms across security, data infrastructure, and EdTech—driving $100M+ ARR. Expert in 0→1 product launches with LLMs, orchestration frameworks, and cloud platforms. Track record of shipping PLG-driven enterprise SaaS with measurable adoption. MBA with Business Analytics & ML focus. Founder of Storytime AI, combining GenAI pipelines and feedback loops for ethical AI products with high retention.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
AI Product Lead / Cofounder
Storytime AI Jan 2025 – Present Voice Based Interactive Storytelling SaaS platform for Edtech
Launched GenAI MVP in <60 days using LangChain and Gemini 2.0 Flash, retaining 100% of early adopters
Selected for Google Cloud for Startups AI Program; won Inventor Award for ethical, screen-free early learning
Built GCP-based EdTech SaaS with React, FastAPI, LangChain, integrating STT/TTS for token-paced AI orchestration
Designed mode-based prompting with token/latency control and delivered COPPA/GDPR-compliant experience
AI Product Manager
AI Chatbot Oct 2024 – Jan 2025 Discord SaaS Assistant for Content Search and Discovery
Launched career-goal study planner and content locator, boosting onboarding to 85% and reducing mentor workload by 60%
Improved AI accuracy by 37% and cut latency by 58% via optimized chunking and retrieval workflows
Built milestone-based learning paths and designed RAG-based assistant with LangChain, DeepSeek, and Pinecone
Integrated Postgres and AWS-hosted embeddings for improved real-time content retrieval
Senior Product Manager
Fortinet Nov 2021 – Sep 2023 Lacework – AI/ML based Cloud security platform
Delivered $40M ARR launching Kubernetes Security for Amazon EKS and Google GKE, supporting 200+ enterprise customers
Received Inventor Award for integrating Kubernetes telemetry into Polygraph platform for anomaly detection
Led roadmap for Kubernetes compliance and runtime observability meeting SOC2 and NIST standards
Defined ML model requirements and built usage instrumentation to measure customer adoption impact
Senior Product Manager
Panzura, LLC Jun 2019 – Nov 2021
Launched multi-cloud Panzura Filer on AWS, Azure, and GCP, driving 40%+ ARR growth
Repositioned for defense sector, unlocking $25M+ ARR with air-gapped deployments
Delivered data health dashboards, cut onboarding time by 87%, and mentored 2 PMs
Owned roadmap for object storage, multi-region replication, and hybrid cloud deployments
Built CMS for data governance with inheritance-based RBAC for faster deployments
Product Manager
SmartBear Inc Oct 2017 – May 2019 Zephyr Enterprise – Test Management tool
Owned product lifecycle contributing to $35M+ ARR with 12% YoY growth
Launched Zephyr Maestro DevOps pipeline tool in 120 days, achieving 100% adoption
Analyzed customer inputs for feature releases that increased adoption by 18%
Developed GTM strategies resulting in 2x increase in trial-to-paid conversions
Product Management Intern
Loadstar Sensors Summer 2016 and 2017 Smart Sensors with plug and sense load cell technology
Developed GTM strategy for new IoT product, accelerating market positioning
Increased inbound leads by 20% using Google Analytics-driven insights
Created cross-functional alignment for B2B industrial customer positioning
SKILLS
Product Management: Strategy, Go-to-Market, Competitive Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Agile
Design: User Personas, Usability Testing, Prototyping, A/B Testing
AI & ML: LLMs, NLP, Prompt Engineering, Chain of Thought, LangChain, Gemini, OpenAI, RAG, Orchestration, Data Classification
Cloud & Security: SOC2, NIST, Kubernetes, IAM, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, GovCloud, Docker, API
Certifications: Stanford PM for IoT, AWS Technical Essentials, AWS Architecting, Kubernetes Basic and Advanced
EDUCATION
Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business Aug 2015 – Dec 2017 
MBA in Product Management & Business Analytics (ML Specialization)
University of Mumbai, India May 2007 – Jun 2010 
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science+