Technical Product Manager.
Background in aerospace systems engineering. Today I work on AI-powered products.
Reconciled requirements, tight tolerances, nothing wasted.
I started by designing Pakistan's first indigenous satellite. Now I ship AI products, and I build them myself when I can: specs, code, deployment.
I hold a B.E. in Aerospace Engineering from the Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, and two Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering — one from NUST (Computational Mechanics, completed part-time while working full-time at Pakistan's national space agency) and one from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I studied as a two-time Fulbright Scholar (GPA 3.80/4.0). I'm also a Google Certified Project Manager and hold IBM's Generative AI for Product Managers certification.
Problems I've worked on
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SigmaSight B2B SaaS · AI
Turning AI-accelerated development from a QA bottleneck into an automated pipeline
Pilot proof of concept complete, now in pilotAs AI-assisted coding sharply increased ticket throughput, QA became the constraint on how fast the team could ship.
- AI-generated acceptance criteria at ticket creation
- Playwright tests auto-run on staging
- Results posted, QA and PM tagged
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SigmaSight DevOps · Automation
Automating release tracking for trunk-based deployment
0 manual release updates or Dev→Staging ticket movesAfter the team moved to trunk-based deployment alongside AI-accelerated development, manual Jira release management stopped scaling.
- Jira webhook
- GitHub Actions extracts release from tag
- Release created, fix version on every ticket
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Transconomy AI · Infrastructure
Closing and delivering the largest deal in Transconomy's history
1st time the company went revenue-positiveLed the Richland County engagement end-to-end, from the first technical sales call to final delivery.
- Technical sales call
- Proposal drafting
- Deliverable breakdown
- Execution
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Transconomy Mobile Product
Turning a customer complaint into a field app
40% less time spent on data collection, reported by collectors after launchCustomers wanted to use their own GoPros, and our existing collection app didn't fit how they worked in the field.
- Draw regions on a map
- Guided routes with live coverage
- GoPro records continuously
- Geo-tagged voice notes
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Transconomy Computer Vision
Estimating pothole size from ordinary 2D road imagery
2 new offerings: PCI and PASER pavement ratingsRoad authorities need pothole dimensions to rate pavement condition, but our pipeline only captured standard 2D video, with no depth sensors.
- 2D street imagery
- Pothole detection
- Size from image geometry
- PCI and PASER ratings
No new hardware, using data customers already collected
Personal Projects
Products I design and build end to end, to stay hands-on with the AI tools and trade-offs my teams work with.
Both built solo with Claude Code, which is also how I prototype at work.
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Consumer AI (in stealth)
Building and shipping a consumer AI mobile app solo, from spec to production
~2× free-tier AI quota (about 500 to 1,000 requests a day) through automatic model fallbackI'm building a consumer AI app on my own and run it like a real product: every feature starts as a written spec before any code is written.
- Written spec
- Flutter mobile app
- FastAPI + Supabase auth
- Gemini with model fallback
- Google Cloud + Docker
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AI Voice Journaling (pre-launch)
Designing an AI product to run at $0 per entry
$0 per entry, vs. about $0.02 on the production setupA voice journaling app I'm building solo: users speak, and AI turns each entry into a structured, searchable summary.
- Voice recording
- Speech-to-text
- LLM summary
- Embeddings for search
- Live results in app
Working MVP · 18 of 23 stories done Read the case study →
Where I've been
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Lead product for SigmaSight, an AI-powered liability claims intelligence platform for insurers, working with a Red Buffer engineering team in Pakistan. Own the full product lifecycle — sprint planning, backlog grooming, and requirements gathering with US-based customer success, sales, and design counterparts — reporting directly to the CEO. Shipped three products spanning litigation risk analytics, AI-generated settlement insights for defense counsel, and expert review of AI output before it reaches customers.
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Promoted from Technology Business Analyst to lead all of Transconomy's Pakistan operations — 60+ people across AI/ML engineering, full-stack development, service delivery, and data annotation. Closed and delivered Richland County, the largest deal in company history, taking Transconomy revenue-positive for the first time. Conceived and shipped Transconomy Navigator, a mobile app born from direct customer feedback, cutting field data-collection time by ~40%.
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Joined an AI-driven roadway asset management platform used to meet federal infrastructure inventory mandates. Won a P@SHA Applied AI award, ran a pilot with Mobileye (an Intel company), and led a 100+ site drone-imagery project for Kimley-Horn on a one-month deadline — using a staggered, multi-team delivery model with zero missed deadlines. Also developed an original computer-vision algorithm to estimate pothole size from 2D imagery, expanding the product into PCI and PASER pavement-scoring.
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Ran two parallel consulting engagements: lead technical consultant to Portwiser, a Portugal-based firm, on a UN-linked UAV system for autonomous national-park patrol and disaster detection (requirements definition, trade studies, vendor evaluation, team and deployment planning); and solo design-through-manufacturing lead for ProMed Solutions, reverse-engineering and delivering a manufactured X-ray machine prototype (full ownership: requirements, CAD, vendor visits, QC, and manufacturing).
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M.S. Mechanical Engineering. Research at the Mechatronics and Robotics Research Lab (MRRL) on underwater rehabilitation robotics — using vortex-generating airfoils to help stroke survivors relearn a walking gait.
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Sole aerospace engineer in the systems engineering department on Pakistan's first indigenous satellite (PAKTES-1A), reconciling requirements across 13 sub-systems. Redesigned the satellite configuration to cut mass from 900kg to 291kg and height from 3m to 1m, while holding center-of-gravity within a 10mm envelope — passed PDR/CDR and two independent international audits (a Chinese partner team and South Africa's Space Advisory Company). The satellite launched in 2018 and completed its full service life before scheduled decommissioning.
Things I think about
Writing on product, engineering, AI, and the spaces in between. More coming soon.
Let's talk
I'm always happy to chat about product, AI, or anything at the intersection of engineering and people. Whether you're hiring, collaborating, or just curious — reach out.
I'll be in touch soon.