
Sujithkumar Menon
Product manager, data and AI
I build data and AI products that people keep using.
For fifteen years I've worked inside banks, payment companies, a pharma firm and Amazon Ring, turning sprawling reporting into a few tools teams trust. Since 2024 I've been designing and shipping AI products on my own.
Selected work
One set of numbers instead of a hundred dashboards
Amazon Ring, 2019 to 2022, BI engineer and project lead
- The situation
- Product, sales and leadership teams were working from more than 100 Looker dashboards that overlapped and often disagreed.
- What I did
- Talked to the people using them, agreed shared definitions for the core metrics, and rebuilt what mattered as 25 Tableau products. Tuned the Redshift SQL underneath so they refreshed faster.
- What changed
- Duplication down 35%, adoption up 20%, refresh times down 40%. A cohort view built along the way helped lift monthly retention 17% for one customer segment.
- What I took from it
- Most of the work was agreeing on definitions. The dashboards were the easy part.
A roadmap four teams could deliver on
Discover Financial Services, 2023 to 2024, product manager
- The situation
- The BI ecosystem for a Fortune 500 card network, spread across four business units and three offshore teams, each with its own priorities.
- What I did
- Owned the vision and roadmap and ran it as one backlog, using usage data and interviews to decide what came next. Automated the reporting work that was taking up analyst time.
- What changed
- Every iteration shipped on time. Delivery timelines came down 30% and report turnaround 60%.
- What I took from it
- A clear no, given early and in writing, kept more promises than a hopeful yes.
A product built alone, end to end
Skyspeak, 2024, independent
- The situation
- A weather app for Android with an assistant you can ask in plain language. No team, no handoffs.
- What I did
- Designed it, built it in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, wired in the LLM assistant and published it on Google Play.
- What changed
- It's live, with more than 100 downloads. Small, and real.
- What I took from it
- Doing every role myself made me a more patient product manager.
How I work
- I talk to the people who use a report before I change it.
- I write decisions down, with the reason, on the day they're made.
- I would rather give a later date I can keep than an early one I can't.
- I check the numbers myself before they go in front of leadership.
Things I've built
Products I've designed, built and shipped on my own since 2024.
Skyspeak (Weatherly) — Native Android Weather App
Native Android weather app with a built-in AI assistant — instant on-device advice (umbrella, driving, hiking) with no network call needed, plus free-form natural-language Q&A backed by an LLM.
Multi-Agent Customer Support System
Simulated enterprise support system with coordinated AI agents (router, technical, account) that communicate over a Redis message queue, each running as its own containerized microservice behind a Streamlit demo interface.
REAL ID Appointment Checker
Automation script that monitors NJ MVC REAL ID appointment availability through scheduled headless-browser checks and sends real-time email alerts the moment a slot opens.
Personalized Learning Recommender
Agentic AI app that curates personalized learning resources based on your goals and interests, using Claude for LLM-based reranking with a Gradio interface and local caching.
Restobot – AI Restaurant Assistant
End-to-end AI product for restaurant discovery and decision support.
GenAI SQL Assistant
Self-service GenAI analytics assistant that translates natural language into SQL, empowering non-technical users to query structured data and visualize insights in real time.
Background
I started in 2011 as a data analyst writing ETL for Discover, then moved through BI development, Tableau architecture and Scrum Master work into product ownership. Nearly all of it was client work through one consulting firm, BitWise, where I stayed for thirteen years.
- Discover Financial Services: Jun 2011 – Dec 2012, Dec 2016 – Jul 2018, Jan 2023 – Jun 2024
- Global Payments Inc.: Jan 2013 – Jun 2014, Feb 2016 – Nov 2016, Mar 2022 – Dec 2022
- Eaton: Jul 2014 – Jan 2016
- Shire: Aug 2018 – May 2019
- Amazon Ring: Jun 2019 – Feb 2022
- Independent: Jul 2024 – Present
Each row is a client. Each mark is a separate placement.
- Certifications
- Tableau Certified Data Analyst, Product Manager Certified, SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master, MCSA: SQL Server 2012
- Education
- B.E., Information Technology, Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune University (2006 – 2010)Applied Generative AI Bootcamp, Purdue University (Feb – May 2025)
- Tools I use most
- SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, Python, LangChain, and the OpenAI and Claude APIs
Contact
If you're hiring for an analytics or AI product role, I'd be glad to talk.
sujithkumar.v.menon@gmail.comNew York City Metropolitan Area