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Anika Yadav
Open to new opportunitiesSanta Clara, CA

I build AI-native products that ship and scale

Technical PM working at the intersection of applied AI and financial infrastructure. I turn ambiguous problems into agentic systems, compliance-grade platforms, and products that hold up in production — with a CS background that means I can build the thing, not just spec it.

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Years building products
6+Years building products
Monthly volume enabled
$100M+Monthly volume enabled
MS Product Management
CMUMS Product Management
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About

Product manager with an engineer’s instincts

I started as an engineer building ML pipelines, moved into product, and never stopped caring about how the thing actually works. That combination is where I do my best work: close enough to the system to make real tradeoffs, far enough back to keep the user in frame.

Agentic AI systems

Designing autonomous agents that plan, route, and execute real transactions — with policy guardrails and human-in-the-loop escalation where it matters.

AI product strategy

Taking AI from demo to production: retrieval pipelines, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge evaluation gates, and the rollout playbooks that drive adoption.

Payments & compliance infra

Stablecoin issuance, tokenized deposits, and KYC/AML pipelines built to regulatory standards without grinding shipping velocity to a halt.

Engineering fluency

A CS degree and two years shipping ML pipelines in production, so I can read the code, scope the tradeoff, and earn engineering trust.

Carnegie Mellon University

MS Product Management (STEM) — Tepper School of Business

2024

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

B.Tech, Computer Science

2019

Experience

Where I've built

Six years across AI product, fintech infrastructure, global marketplaces, and hands-on engineering.

  1. Velaura AI

    Current

    Technical Product Manager

    Present

    Santa Clara, CA

    Lead product for an AI-native enterprise stablecoin issuance and tokenized deposits platform, spanning agentic payments, compliance, and settlement architecture.

    • Defined wallet, transaction, and settlement APIs for a platform processing $100M+/month across institutional clients
    • Built an agentic payments layer executing autonomous stablecoin routing over AP2/X402/A2A, cutting processing time ~40%
    • Owned KYC/KYB/AML and sanctions screening design, reducing fraud detection gaps ~30% and manual review time 40%

  2. Prof Assist

    AI/ML Product Manager

    Sep – Dec 2024

    Pittsburgh, PA

    Architected an agentic grading assistant for university faculty — retrieval pipeline, evaluation harness, and the adoption playbook behind it.

    • Designed chunking, embedding, and context-window strategy with per-student memory, lifting CSAT from 3.2 to 4.5
    • Built golden datasets of 1,000+ expert-graded submissions and LLM-as-judge gates, reducing MSE 65%
    • Ran 50+ faculty interviews to map workflows and AI adoption barriers, driving rollout across 10+ professors

  3. Expedia Group

    Product Manager

    Oct 2021 – Dec 2023

    Gurgaon, India

    Drove discovery and roadmap across 5+ product lines, shipping personalization and messaging experiences at global scale.

    • Unified self-serve capabilities across product lines, driving $325M in operational cost savings
    • Revamped the global buyer–seller messaging inbox, generating ~$17M in incremental annual revenue
    • Shipped an ML procurement pipeline across 200K+ uploads, lifting conversion 2.5% and revenue ~$25M

  4. Times Internet

    Software Development Engineer

    Jun 2019 – Sep 2021

    Noida, India

    Built content automation and computer vision pipelines across editorial CMS systems — the engineering foundation I still build on.

    • Built an ingestion and publishing pipeline that cut article publishing time ~85%
    • Shipped a TensorFlow CV pipeline for classification, face recognition, and spam detection, cutting moderation ~40%
    • Developed a transformer-based NLG system for automated editorial reporting, reducing manual effort ~70%

Projects

Selected work

Three slots reserved for the projects I'm putting together right now. Check back soon — or reach out if you'd like to hear about what I'm building.

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Project One

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Project Three

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Toolkit

What I work with

AI & ML

  • Generative AI
  • Agentic RAG
  • Multimodal LLMs
  • NLP
  • Computer Vision
  • TensorFlow
  • LLM Evaluation

Engineering

  • Python
  • Java
  • REST APIs
  • Microservices
  • GitHub

Product

  • Roadmapping
  • Discovery
  • Figma
  • Jira
  • A/B Testing
  • Go-to-Market

Domain

  • Stablecoins
  • Tokenized Deposits
  • KYC/AML
  • Payments Infra
  • Compliance

Contact

Let’s build something worth shipping

Working on an AI product, an agentic system, or payments infrastructure? I’d love to hear about it.

anika.yadav.work@gmail.com
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