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Ankita Bhargava - Resume & Experience

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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

Senior Product Manager

NetApp Aug 2025 – Present StorageGRID– Industry Leading Object Storage Platform & AI Intelligent Data Infrastructure

  • Owned product management for StorageGRID data lakehouse integration, advancing managed analytics on object storage from concept through Phase 3 execution.
  • Drove 0→1 product planning within 90 days of OEM vendor selection, aligning 12+ teams and 30+ stakeholders across PRDs, review decks, grooming, pricing, OEM, GTM, support, and operations.
  • Supported pricing and OEM negotiation inputs alongside leadership, shaping licensing, entitlement, partner royalty, telemetry, and support-readiness for AI/data lakehouse workloads.
  • Presented StorageGRID portfolio and NDA roadmap in EBC briefings, positioning object storage as a foundation for AI, analytics, and enterprise data infrastructure.
  • Supported broader StorageGRID execution across hardware lifecycle, PSRR/HDD qualification, EOL planning, and 12.1/12.2 PRD grooming.

AI Product Lead / Cofounder

Storytime AI Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 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

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