— Bengaluru, India
Gaurav Patwardhan
Product manager with 5 years of experience across AI, EV charging, and industrial products — currently building AI-first products at Shell. I specialize in product discovery, roadmap ownership, and shipping AI agent products from spec to production, working hands-on with engineering, operations, and global stakeholders.
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Skills
Career
Shell — Emerging Architect, Subsurface & Wells
Dec 2025 – Present
- —Built a two-stage Claude agent for 22 legacy Petrel plugins — cut the annual SDK upgrade cycle from 6–8 sprints to 4–5 days per plugin (~95%)
- —Defined a Python-native replacement for the subsurface data broker, cutting 4 middleware hops to 1
- —Wrote the platform's product principles and directed an agent-built MVP through spec-driven development
Shell — Product Manager, EV Charging Operations
2024 – 2025
- —Shipped Alert Grouping & Prioritization — cut operator alert volume by ~80%
- —Onboarded Switzerland and Singapore from kickoff to live operations
- —Validated Autoheal's business case: recurring-fault resolution from 900 to 36 minutes
- —Ran discovery across 15+ market operators — delivered 5+ features and 10+ roadmap items
Startups & Internships
2022 – 2024
- —FinRight — shipped a credit card recommendation engine: benchmarked 300+ cards, wrote the PRDs and wireframes
- —IDFC First Bank — streamlined vendor onboarding, cutting turnaround time 20%
- —Exly — carried revenue and retention targets in sales and customer success
MBA — Marketing & Data Sciences, NMIMS Mumbai
2022 – 2024
- —Runner up — Microsoft PM Engage, awarded a pre-placement interview with Microsoft
- —Led a 90+ member placement team serving 1,500+ students and 100 recruiters
Eaton — Project Manager & NPD Engineer
2018 – 2021
- —Pitched and launched 2 products with $4M projected revenue, winning Decision Gate approval as Project Manager
- —Co-invented bypass switching technology (US patent) — 2× E-Star Awards
- —Cut prototyping and validation turnaround 30% using Lean Six Sigma
Mechanical Engineering — WCE Sangli
2014 – 2018
- —Learned to solve problems by making things, not just analyzing them
- —Born and raised in CSN, teacher parents
Awards
- —Shell Special Recognition Award — EVEC delivery, 2025
- —Microsoft PM Engage — Runner-up, 2022
- —2× Eaton E-Star Awards
Certifications
- —KPMG Lean Six Sigma
- —Data Analytics & Visualisation
- —Product Management
Career Interests
- —AI Product Management
- —Platform & B2B Products
- —Agentic AI
Want to build something together? gauravpatwardhan7@gmail.com