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Senior Product Manager - Platform

Hi, I’m lotusSaurav.
I build. I break. I blog.

Developer-turned-product manager building EdTech at scale. 
I write about product, platforms, and what breaks along the way.

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AP GURU · EDTECH PLATFORM

Getting a company off Excel — without a revolt

A five-year sprawl of scheduling spreadsheets had stopped scaling. I led the team-by-team migration to a permissioned portal, running both systems in parallel until each team stopped reaching for the sheet on its own.

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100%off Excel, org-wide
300+staff migrated
team-by-teamzero-downtime rollout
The scheduling portal that replaced the spreadsheet — structured classes, teacher availability, and status at a glance (names blurred).
AP GURU · PLATFORM

The tool was faster. They still wanted the spreadsheet back.

A scheduling portal that was objectively better kept getting rejected. I reframed adoption as a trust problem, named the real user, and built an honest way to measure whether people would leave if they could.

Product strategyInternal toolsChange management
1,300+daily users
₹12 Cr+annual revenue
15person team
AP GURU · DATA MODEL

One platform, every exam type

Redesigned the core test data model into a flexible schema that could score everything from SAT to IB — turning a two-course tool into a catalog spanning ten-plus exam types.

System designData modeling0-to-1
~150xcatalog growth
300+courses
10+exam types