Resume
Vidhi Parekh
Product Manager · Product Manager · AI/Data · Design · GTM
89%
On-time delivery
Two platform rollouts, Jio Platforms
40%
Less manual reporting
One source of truth for launch KPIs
25%
Fewer repeat defects
Quality gates in the release path
1,198
Research participants
994 patients + 204 providers
UXDA '26
New Talent nominee
Team project, LLM Tutor
Experience & education
Aug 2026 – present
Product Strategy Consultant
Memory Lane Care Navigator, Austin
Early-stage digital health startup for family caregivers: segment scoring for a B2B target shortlist, and a bottom-up price and unit of sale the founder now prices against.
Sep 2025 – present
Graduate Research Assistant
IC² Institute, UT Austin
994 patients and 204 providers, four AI mental-health concepts, multigroup structural equation modelling in R — translated into design and rollout recommendations, with two JMIR manuscripts in progress.
Aug 2025 – present
M.S. Information Science, Data Science concentration
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Information
GPA 3.5/4.0, graduating May 2027.
Dec 2024 – Jun 2025
Associate Product Manager
Jio Platforms Limited, Mumbai
Owned the streaming integration end to end: PRDs from 10K+ behaviour signals, prototype validation, KPI dashboards, launch readiness. 89% on-time delivery, 40% less reporting effort. Jio Spotlight Award.
Dec 2023 – Dec 2024
Assistant Manager, Quality Engineering
Jio Platforms Limited, Mumbai
Automated regression in Selenium, JMeter and REST tests; root-cause work across Java microservices, Kubernetes and Kafka. 25% fewer repeat defects, 30% faster triage.
Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
Quality Assurance Engineer
Initialyze, Mumbai
Functional, regression and API testing on Adobe Experience Manager workflows — learning systems by breaking them.
2021
Web development & data internships
The Sparks Foundation · Exposys Data Labs
Built small end-to-end things, which is where the interest in product rather than pure engineering started.
May 2019 – Jun 2019
Apprentice
Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Mumbai
First look inside how enterprise software actually gets built and shipped.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Information
M.S. Information Science, Data Science concentration · GPA 3.5/4.0
Aug 2025 – May 2027
University of Mumbai
B.E. Information Technology · GPA 9.2/10.0, graduated with distinction
Aug 2020 – May 2023
Certifications
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
- Generative AI Fundamentals
- Responsible AI
Product
Problem framing · Prioritization · PRDs & user stories · Requirements & acceptance criteria · Roadmapping · KPI definition · Launch readiness · Stakeholder alignment
AI + Data
Behaviour analysis · SQL · Python · R (lavaan) · Power BI · Tableau · LLM evaluation · Quantitative research
Design & research
User journeys · UX research · Prototyping · Qualtrics · Interaction thinking · Prototype validation · Human-AI evaluation
Technical fluency
REST APIs & Swagger · Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ · Kubernetes · Java & Spring Boot services · System integrations · Selenium, JMeter, Robot Framework
Ways of working
Jira · Confluence · Azure Boards & DevOps · Git · Executive status reporting · Root cause analysis
Contact
Let's build something people actually want to use.
I'm exploring full-time Product Management opportunities where I can work across AI/data, thoughtful design, and go-to-market execution.