• Product Management
  • Analytics Consulting
  • Technical Strategy
  • User Empathy

AritraPal

Product Manager CandidateAnalytics & Strategy Consultant

I turn engineering experience and messy data into product and business decisions. Over 30+ months as a Systems Engineer at TCS, I built and integrated the backend systems running real insurance and HR platforms. Now I'm doing a PGPM at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, specialising in Product Management and AI & Data Analytics, with an early seat in the McKinsey Forward Program. Recent work: a Medicare fraud model that's 7.6x better than chance, NLP on 215K patient reviews, and a $7M pharma rebate model. Seven certifications across AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft (Power BI, Azure AI, Power Platform) let me talk architecture with engineers and roadmap with stakeholders in the same meeting. A parallel life writing and editing short films taught me to read an audience, and I bring that instinct to every user problem I scope.

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Value Proposition

Focus Areas

PRODUCT STRATEGY & GTM

I turn ambiguous market problems into shippable roadmaps. Structured customer discovery drives every Product-Market Fit call I make, across four B2C AI product lines for Navneet Education and in teardowns like my 23-slide Microsoft Teams study, where I set a North Star metric and wireframed the fix.

THE BUSINESS-TECH BRIDGE

30+ months building backend systems at TCS taught me what actually breaks in production. I use that to lead global discovery sessions, reconcile conflicting stakeholder requirements, and ship features that move real metrics, including a 20% drop in support escalations.

DATA & ANALYTICS

I build the models that justify the decision. A Random Forest that flags Medicare fraud from 558K claims (PR-AUC 0.706), NLP that surfaced 35 hidden side-effect signals in 215K drug reviews, and a pharma sales & rebate model that sized $7.25M in quarterly rebates against $14.6M in profit.

STORYTELLING & USER EMPATHY

Every product worth using is a story the user wants to be in. Scriptwriting and editing short films, including one exploring confirmation bias, trained me to find the emotional throughline in a narrative. I apply that directly to product storytelling and stakeholder communication.

My work

Featured Case Studies

Product strategy, analytics and machine learning, and design thinking

0-to-1 GTM Strategy: AI EdTech Product-Market Fit

Problem: High user drop-off during onboarding. Strategy: Ran structured customer discovery across 4 B2C AI product lines. Solution: Prototyped functional workflows for a 3B-parameter domain LLM. Impact: Validated Product-Market Fit and delivered data-backed pricing recommendations.

  • GTM Research
  • GenAI
  • Business Requirement Analysis
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Healthcare Provider Fraud Detection (Medicare)

Problem: Medicare fraud happens per provider, but the data arrives as 558K individual claims. Strategy: Engineered provider-level features and handled a 9% fraud rate with class weighting. Solution: Random Forest scored on PR-AUC, plus a Tableau dashboard. Impact: PR-AUC of 0.706, about 7.6x better than chance.

  • Machine Learning
  • Python & scikit-learn
  • Tableau
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Pharma Commercial Analytics: Sales & Rebate Model

Problem: A specialty oncology drug maker needed territory sales and account-level rebates after quarter close. Strategy: Cleaned ~10.9K sales rows, mapped accounts to systems and territories, and applied GPO contract tiers. Solution: An Excel rebate engine. Impact: Sized $7.25M in quarterly rebates against $14.6M profit.

  • Pharma Analytics
  • Excel Modeling
  • Contract & Rebate Logic
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30+

Months at TCS

7

Certifications

558K

Claims Modelled

215K

Reviews Analysed

Where I've worked

Work Experience

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services

2023 – 2026
  • Leroy Merlin Romania: led the Java/Spring Boot backend for a system health dashboard that cut peak data-retrieval latency by 30% and support escalations by 20%, and became the team's standard monitoring tool.
  • Bajaj Allianz General Insurance: ran fit-gap analysis across four vehicle segments and integrated the IIB and mParivahan APIs into the Own Damage backend, reducing manual data errors.
  • Ultimatix HR platform: reconciled leave policy across Spain, China and the US through global discovery sessions and process mapping, then rolled out one standard process.
  • Recognised with TCS's On-the-Spot and Elevate Wings awards for end-to-end delivery.

GenC Next Intern

Cognizant

2023
  • Built a serverless AWS IoT hazard-monitoring backend (Lambda, Greengrass) for enterprise hotels, with 100% API test coverage and 15% faster incident retrieval.
Who am I?

About Aritra

Education

  • MBA (PGPM) in Product Management and AI & Data Analytics, Class of 2027

    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 & Pedigree

  • McKinsey Forward Program (Core Professional & Leadership Skills)

    McKinsey & Company

  • Professional Data Engineer

    Google Cloud

  • Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)

    Microsoft

  • Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)

    Microsoft

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

    AWS

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    AWS

  • Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900)

    Microsoft

Beyond the Resume

  • Behavioral psych enthusiast: writes and edits short films exploring cognitive biases, including confirmation bias

  • Financial modeler: builds multi-sheet Excel forecast workbooks for Indian listed companies

  • Active competitor in product management and analytics case competitions

  • Avid traveler with a love for scenic rail journeys and coastal road trips

Toolbox

Skills & Frameworks

Product & Strategy

  • Product Roadmapping & Teardowns
  • GTM Strategy & PMF Validation
  • Design Thinking & Prototyping
  • North Star Metrics & Prioritisation
  • Agile Scrum & Stakeholder Management

Data & Analytics

  • Python (Pandas, scikit-learn, Statsmodels)
  • Machine Learning & NLP (VADER)
  • SQL, ETL & Star-Schema Modeling
  • Tableau & Power BI Dashboards
  • Excel Modeling: Sales, Rebates & Forecasts

Cloud & Architecture

  • AWS (Solutions Architect, Cloud Practitioner)
  • Google Cloud Data Engineering
  • Azure AI & Microsoft Power Platform
  • Java & Spring Boot Backend
  • API Integration & IoT Solutions
Experience

Companies I've Worked With

Tata Consultancy ServicesBajaj AllianzLeroy MerlinCognizantNavneet Education

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