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Product, Strategy & AI

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DEB

DEB

DEB

NAG

NAG

NAG

Product manager, strategy consultant, and AI advisor

Product Strategy & Growth
CONSULTANT

Five years shipping products at scale, an MSc dissertation on AI governance, and hands-on strategy delivery for real organisations. Open to full-time roles — and taking on consulting clients now.

Five years shipping products at scale, an MSc dissertation on AI governance, and hands-on strategy delivery for real organisations. Open to full-time roles — and taking on consulting clients now.

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Meet Deb

Meet Deb

I spent five years as a mobile product engineer, building payment infrastructure, ad products and monetisation features at companies including Bajaj Finserv, Inshorts, Pocket FM and Verona. What I kept noticing: the hard questions were never about the code. They were about growtth what drove revenue, what kept users coming back, and how fast a team could act on it. Launched 6+ mobile apps and shipped 20+ end-to-end features across growth, monetisation and customer experience.

App Development

Brand Strategy

Product Strategy

Growth Marketing

Monetisation

AI Governance

BASED London, UK

BACHELOR’S DEGREE BTech, Electrical Engineering — IIT Kanpur

RANK JEE Advanced All India Rank 209 (top 0.1% nationally)

CURRENT Business Graduate, SOAS, University of London (International Masters Scholar)

EXPERIENCE ~5 years, product engineering

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Recent Works

ABOUT ME

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IIT Kanpur had me building chatbots for Fibe India back in 2018  before OpenAI made that cool. I also worked on a Brain-Computer Interface project, using brainwaves to control a robot  basically my own low-budget Cerebro moment, minus the mutants and Patrick Stewart.I also spent a stretch as Head of PR for Techkriti, Asias largest student-led technical festival  running 500+ volunteers, £200k in sponsorship operations, and embassy partnerships that took me from coffee chats with Jamaicas education minister to jamming backstage with EDM artist Willy William. Turns out managing a festival budget and managing a product roadmap use the same muscle.My London business degree took things somewhere I didnt expect: brand strategy for a couture jewellery house at Paris Fashion Week, and an investment strategy for an NGO  a long-time dream, getting to give back and be part of something culturally bigger than a product roadmap. Ive also been scaling SOASs own website under my marketing professor Dr Majd, improving how the university shows up in LLM-generated search results  which means Im now doing GEO for the institution thats teaching me strategy.But I never lost the tech thread. Five years building digital products and software for real businesses taught me the thing that actually matters: the exact moment someone gets bored, loses patience, and quietly deletes your app.I was a self-made data scientist turned software developer  Covid did that to a lot of us  and it landed me at Bajaj Finserv, Indias largest NBFC, helping build one of the earliest UPI payment platforms in the country. From there I became a founding engineer on the ad layer at Inshorts, the layer that actually pays the bills for turning every news story into 60 words. Then I scaled Pocket FM from India into six international markets  the US, UAE, Australia and the UK, etc.  designing and launching the entire architecture for the Pocket Toons app within three months and optimising its monetisation layer. A short stint at Verona, a matchmaking startup, came next, before I got the opportunity to pursue a Masters in London, where Im now researching the ethics and safety side of AI.Wherever Ive been placed, Ive tried to do my best there  and Im still chasing the next thing to learn. 

IIT Kanpur had me building chatbots for Fibe India back in 2018  before OpenAI made that cool. I also worked on a Brain-Computer Interface project, using brainwaves to control a robot  basically my own low-budget Cerebro moment, minus the mutants and Patrick Stewart.I also spent a stretch as Head of PR for Techkriti, Asias largest student-led technical festival  running 500+ volunteers, £200k in sponsorship operations, and embassy partnerships that took me from coffee chats with Jamaicas education minister to jamming backstage with EDM artist Willy William. Turns out managing a festival budget and managing a product roadmap use the same muscle.My London business degree took things somewhere I didnt expect: brand strategy for a couture jewellery house at Paris Fashion Week, and an investment strategy for an NGO  a long-time dream, getting to give back and be part of something culturally bigger than a product roadmap. Ive also been scaling SOASs own website under my marketing professor Dr Majd, improving how the university shows up in LLM-generated search results  which means Im now doing GEO for the institution thats teaching me strategy.But I never lost the tech thread. Five years building digital products and software for real businesses taught me the thing that actually matters: the exact moment someone gets bored, loses patience, and quietly deletes your app.I was a self-made data scientist turned software developer  Covid did that to a lot of us  and it landed me at Bajaj Finserv, Indias largest NBFC, helping build one of the earliest UPI payment platforms in the country. From there I became a founding engineer on the ad layer at Inshorts, the layer that actually pays the bills for turning every news story into 60 words. Then I scaled Pocket FM from India into six international markets  the US, UAE, Australia and the UK, etc.  designing and launching the entire architecture for the Pocket Toons app within three months and optimising its monetisation layer. A short stint at Verona, a matchmaking startup, came next, before I got the opportunity to pursue a Masters in London, where Im now researching the ethics and safety side of AI.Wherever Ive been placed, Ive tried to do my best there  and Im still chasing the next thing to learn. 

IIT Kanpur had me building chatbots for Fibe India back in 2018  before OpenAI made that cool. I also worked on a Brain-Computer Interface project, using brainwaves to control a robot  basically my own low-budget Cerebro moment, minus the mutants and Patrick Stewart.I also spent a stretch as Head of PR for Techkriti, Asias largest student-led technical festival  running 500+ volunteers, £200k in sponsorship operations, and embassy partnerships that took me from coffee chats with Jamaicas education minister to jamming backstage with EDM artist Willy William. Turns out managing a festival budget and managing a product roadmap use the same muscle.My London business degree took things somewhere I didnt expect: brand strategy for a couture jewellery house at Paris Fashion Week, and an investment strategy for an NGO  a long-time dream, getting to give back and be part of something culturally bigger than a product roadmap. Ive also been scaling SOASs own website under my marketing professor Dr Majd, improving how the university shows up in LLM-generated search results  which means Im now doing GEO for the institution thats teaching me strategy.But I never lost the tech thread. Five years building digital products and software for real businesses taught me the thing that actually matters: the exact moment someone gets bored, loses patience, and quietly deletes your app.I was a self-made data scientist turned software developer  Covid did that to a lot of us  and it landed me at Bajaj Finserv, Indias largest NBFC, helping build one of the earliest UPI payment platforms in the country. From there I became a founding engineer on the ad layer at Inshorts, the layer that actually pays the bills for turning every news story into 60 words. Then I scaled Pocket FM from India into six international markets  the US, UAE, Australia and the UK, etc.  designing and launching the entire architecture for the Pocket Toons app within three months and optimising its monetisation layer. A short stint at Verona, a matchmaking startup, came next, before I got the opportunity to pursue a Masters in London, where Im now researching the ethics and safety side of AI.Wherever Ive been placed, Ive tried to do my best there  and Im still chasing the next thing to learn. 

Industry Experience

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Selected Work

A few of the projects I've led — across product, strategy, and AI."

Services

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What I Offer

For brands who want to stand out; products that need to ship; teams who want answers, not guesses; and businesses ready to transform

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Branding Strategy

Brand identity & positioning

Campaign strategy & storytelling

Fashion & luxury brand partnerships

Cultural & event brand activations

Wedding couple

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Branding Strategy

Brand identity & positioning

Campaign strategy & storytelling

Fashion & luxury brand partnerships

Cultural & event brand activations

Artistic portrait

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App & Web

Developement

Product architecture & design

Chatbot & AI integration

Full-stack app development

Website builds & optimisation

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App & Web

Developement

Product architecture & design

Chatbot & AI integration

Full-stack app development

Website builds & optimisation

Stylish individual in Crowd

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Data Analytics &

Consulting

Sales & demand forecasting

Customer & sentiment analytics

Market research & competitive analysis

Business strategy grounded in data

Stylish individual in Crowd

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Data Analytics &

Consulting

Sales & demand forecasting

Customer & sentiment analytics

Market research & competitive analysis

Business strategy grounded in data

Celebrity arrival scene

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Product & Growth

Strategy

Product roadmap & prioritisation

Monetisation & revenue strategy

GTM & market expansion

Retention & activation strategy

Celebrity arrival scene

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Product & Growth

Strategy

Product roadmap & prioritisation

Monetisation & revenue strategy

GTM & market expansion

Retention & activation strategy

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AI Solutioning &

Data Protection

AI strategy for your business

AI-powered product solutioning

Data governance & protection

Ethics & compliance advisory

Glitch portrait art

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AI Solutioning &

Data Protection

AI strategy for your business

AI-powered product solutioning

Data governance & protection

Ethics & compliance advisory

EDUCATION

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MY EDUCATION

The academic foundation behind the work

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"IIT Kanpur is one of India's most selective institutions I placed in the top 0.1% of over 150,000 candidates to get in. Four years there taught me to approach problems with an engineer's precision, long before I knew I'd end up in strategy."

BTech, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur · 2016–2020

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A fast black sports car races down the highway.

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"IIT Kanpur is one of India's most selective institutions I placed in the top 0.1% of over 150,000 candidates to get in. Four years there taught me to approach problems with an engineer's precision, long before I knew I'd end up in strategy."

BTech, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur · 2016–2020

LET'S CONNECT

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Hiring, or have a project? Either way, let's talk.

Whether it's a full-time role, a strategy engagement, or an AI project — I'd love to hear about it.

BASED IN

© 2026 Debashis Nag. All rights reserved.

LET'S CONNECT

{ 08 }

Hiring, or have a project? Either way, let's talk.

Whether it's a full-time role, a strategy engagement, or an AI project — I'd love to hear about it.

BASED IN

© 2026 Debashis Nag. All rights reserved.

LET'S CONNECT

{ 08 }

Hiring, or have a project? Either way, let's talk.

Whether it's a full-time role, a strategy engagement, or an AI project — I'd love to hear about it.

BASED IN

© 2026 Debashis Nag. All rights reserved.