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AritraPal

Product & Strategy Enthusiast

Bridging the gap between business strategy and technical execution. Combining certified expertise in cloud architecture and data analytics with a passion for creative storytelling to build scalable products and deliver impactful technology consulting. I turn ambiguous business challenges into clear, data-driven solutions.

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What I do

Focus Areas

PRODUCT STRATEGY & GTM

Evaluating product desirability and validating Product-Market Fit for AI-driven platforms through rigorous customer discovery. Prototyping high-value workflows to resolve user onboarding friction, while leveraging an active background in narrative storytelling and case competitions to craft compelling, data-driven product visions.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Coordinating cross-functional engineering teams and leading discovery sessions with global stakeholders across the US, Spain, and China. Synthesizing diverse user insights to reconcile conflicting requirements, design unified platform features, and drive measurable improvements in employee Net Promoter Scores.

CLOUD & SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Designing scalable backend infrastructures and integrating complex APIs to resolve legacy operational bottlenecks. Leveraging multi-cloud certifications across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to build robust systems that accelerate real-time data retrieval and ensure enterprise safety compliance.

COMMUNITY & SOCIAL IMPACT

Driving positive community impact by coordinating major volunteer-driven health and hygiene initiatives for local members. Active collaborator in product management forums, dedicated to embedding responsible business principles and fostering collaborative, problem-solving environments.

My work

Featured Projects

Case studies showcasing my work in program leadership and technical strategy

Validating Product-Market Fit for AI EdTech

Conducted customer discovery interviews and evaluated Product-Market Fit across 4 B2C AI edtech product lines for Navneet Education. Utilized process mapping to resolve onboarding friction, formulated pricing recommendations, and prototyped functional workflows for a 3B-parameter domain LLM.

  • GTM Research
  • GenAI
  • Business Requirement Analysis
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Driving Enterprise Insurance & HR Transformation

Led global HR discovery sessions to map As-Is/To-Be processes, design use cases, and reconcile leave policies to boost employee NPS. Executed fit-gap analysis and business requirement gathering in an Agile Scrum environment for a major insurance company, integrating IIB and mParivahan APIs to reduce manual errors and improve data validation accuracy.

  • Agile Scrum
  • Fit-Gap Analysis
  • Process Modeling
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Architecting Scalable IoT Dashboards

Developed functional and configuration designs for a scalable hazard-monitoring backend architecture using AWS Lambda and Greengrass, achieving 100% API test coverage and accelerating incident retrieval by 15%.

  • AWS Cloud
  • IoT
  • System Optimization
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Who am I?

About Aritra

Education

  • MBA (PGPM) in Product Management and Business Analytics

    Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

  • B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

    Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata

  • Study Abroad Program (AI & Emerging Tech)

    NUS Singapore

  • CBSE Class 12th (Computer Science)

    Army Public School, Barrackpore

  • CBSE Class 10th

    Army Public School, Barrackpore

Certifications

  • In progress: Certified Professional in Managing AI

    PMI.org

  • Power BI Data Analyst Associate

    Microsoft

  • Professional Data Engineer

    Google

  • Solutions Architect - Associate

    AWS

  • Azure AI Associate (AI102)

    Microsoft

Fun Facts

  • Scriptwriter and editor for short films (currently working on a project about confirmation bias)

  • Active competitor in product management case competitions

  • Avid traveler with a love for scenic rail journeys

  • Enthusiastic retail investor active in equities and smallcase portfolios

Toolbox

Skills & Tools

Product & Strategy

  • Product Roadmapping
  • GTM Strategy
  • Process Modeling
  • Agile Scrum
  • Stakeholder Management

Cloud & Architecture

  • System Architecture
  • AWS & Azure
  • Java & Spring Boot
  • API Integration
  • IoT Solutions

Data & AI

  • Generative AI
  • Data Analysis (SQL, Python)
  • Power BI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Fit-Gap Analysis

Let's connect

Get in Touch

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