Deeksha Srivastava
AI Product Manager & Hands-on Builder EdTech & AI
Bangalore
Summary
Product Manager & Hands-on Builder shaping AI learning products across a two-sided school platform and a student app. Owns roadmap delivery across teacher co-pilot workflows, AI tutoring, and criterion-based grading, while pair-building with engineering on model integration and retrieval. Drove onboarding and activation gains by using funnel data to simplify new-user setup and reduce drop-off.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager & Hands-on Builder
Koncepts (IB AI Co-Pilot), PrepAiro
01.2026 - Current
- Two-sided AI platform for IB schools: a teacher co-pilot (assessment, planning, grading, analytics) and a student app (AI tutoring, practice, gamified learning) across PYP, MYP and DP and ~9 subjects.
- Sole product manager for the platform, owning the roadmap end to end across both the teacher co-pilot and the student app, spanning three IB programmes and ~9 subjects, shipping with a 12-person engineering team
- Managed platform with 4,000 daily active users, 16,000 monthly active users (25% DAU/MAU) across 89 countries and 600+ educators
- Redesigned new-user onboarding flow based on production-funnel analysis, increasing same-day completion from 35% to 53%, reducing pre-grade drop-off from 54% to 35%, and doubling daily active users
- Pair-built and shipped the AI tutoring engine with engineering: a RAG-grounded chat tutor, a real-time AI voice tutor, and a photoreal avatar Class Tutor (Claude/GPT/Gemini, Milvus, LiveKit, Anam)
- Own the AI Assessment Studio, from IB criterion segmentation generation (Criteria A to D, strands, holistic banding) through auto-grading with evidence-linked feedback, supporting 28,000+ AI-graded submissions across 600+ educators
- Led LLM evaluation for grading quality, using teacher corrections as ground truth to inform rubric and prompt changes, ensuring responsible AI; enabled auditing and overriding of scores by teachers
- Make the model-selection tradeoffs across Claude, GPT and Gemini, choosing per workload on cost, latency and instruction-following
- Own the broader student learning surface (notes, quizzes, gamified practice), drive retention from engagement data, and drove the 0-to-1 PYP programme launch to parity with MYP/DP plus the slide-deck builder with live in-class quizzes
PM
ClassPlus ( Polaris School Of Technology )
05.2025 - 12.2025
- 0-1 Placements Outreach Design
- Led on-the-job training for 12 batches (~350 learners), enrolling 8 hiring partners and achieving 80% placement of learners into tech roles at median ₹ 6 LPA package
- Co-developed applied-technology curriculum to align with industry tools and demands
- Facilitated 8 fireside chats with industry leaders and conducted B2B workshops with influencers, managing partner relationships
Product Manager & Hands-on Builder - AI Exam-Prep App (Airo), PrepAiro
Airo
01.2024 - 04.2025
- Owned product and growth end to end, growing the app to 200K+ organic installs and 500+ paying subscribers while owning scope, roadmap and the acquisition-to-conversion funnel
- Delivered core AI learning features, including Airo AI mentor (chat and real-time voice), AI answer evaluation for descriptive answers, adaptive learning paths, mock tests, and practice quizzes, enhancing user learning experience
- Drove engagement and retention with gamified features (duels, daily challenges, streaks, leaderboards) and in-app referral loops that fueled organic growth
- Collaborated with engineering to develop core AI features: Airo voice mentor (LiveKit), AI answer evaluation, and RAG retrieval, while conducting discovery and A/B experimentation (Firebase Analytics, Remote Config) to optimize product performance
- All-in-one UPSC exam-prep app with a personal AI mentor (Airo).
Founder
history0and1 (UPSC prep platform)
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Developed a tool for structured feedback on descriptive answers for UPSC mains.
- The mains evaluator is the direct ancestor of everything since: criterion-based scoring of long-form written answers, the same problem I now solve at IB scale in Koncepts and benchmark publicly in GradeBench
- Ran it solo end to end, product through content, and sourced the problem from my own failure, which is still how I choose what to build
- Managed all aspects of product development, from content creation to user experience, directly addressing challenges identified from personal experience.
- Transitioned from solo project to collaborative environment at PrepAiro, continuing to tackle the same evaluation problem with a team focus.
Education Content Creator & UPSC Candidate
06.2020 - 12.2022
- Spent two and a half years in exam-prep market, building user-focused products as a former user turned PM.
- Created educational audio series for Kuku FM, a paid consumer learning product with a national audience
- Two and a half years inside the exam-prep market I went on to build products for. I was the user before I was the PM.
- Cleared SSC CGL (Tier 3), SSC CHSL and LIC-HFL, and UPSC prelims, from applicant pools in the millions
- Identified key challenges in descriptive answers for candidates at history0and1, Airo, and Koncepts, addressing the lack of useful feedback at scale.
Software Engineer
QuantLattice Systems
08.2016 - 05.2020
- Developed and maintained Java / Spring Boot backend services and REST APIs, enhancing platform functionality
- Created Python ETL pipelines to ingest, validate, and transform data from SQL, REST APIs, and flat-file sources, ensuring data integrity
- Designed and optimized PostgreSQL schemas, using indexing and partitioning to reduce query latency
- Containerized and deployed services on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS) using Docker and CI/CD, streamlining deployment processes
Education
B.Tech. - Computer Science
United College of Engineering & Research (UCER)
Prayagraj01-2016
Skills
LLM integration (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
RAG pipelines and vector search (Milvus)
Prompt engineering
Real-time voice agents (LiveKit)
TTS (ElevenLabs)
Product analytics
A/B testing and experimentation (Statsig, GrowthBook, Firebase Remote Config)
Onboarding funnel optimization
Retention analysis
Cohort analysis
Roadmap management
Cross-functional delivery
Prioritization frameworks
B2B partnerships
Two-sided platform strategy
Accomplishments
- Sole PM on a platform at 4,000 DAU / 16,000 MAU across 89 countries - 25% stickiness, three IB programmes, ~9 subjects, 600+ educators, one 12-person engineering team
- 28,000+ submissions AI-graded against IB criteria, with evidence-linked feedback teachers can audit and override
- 200K+ organic installs, 500+ paying users - built with content, referrals and social loops, zero paid spend
- Engineer who became a PM and kept building - 4 years Java/Python before product; writes the prompts, reads the code, argues tradeoffs with engineering
Timeline
Product Manager & Hands-on Builder
Koncepts (IB AI Co-Pilot), PrepAiro
01.2026 - Current
PM
ClassPlus ( Polaris School Of Technology )
05.2025 - 12.2025
Product Manager & Hands-on Builder - AI Exam-Prep App (Airo), PrepAiro
Airo
01.2024 - 04.2025
Founder
history0and1 (UPSC prep platform)
01.2023 - 12.2023
Education Content Creator & UPSC Candidate
06.2020 - 12.2022
Software Engineer
QuantLattice Systems
08.2016 - 05.2020
B.Tech. - Computer Science
United College of Engineering & Research (UCER)