Kinjal Sharma

I do the research and then I build the thing.

From market sizing that contributed to seed funding, to a B2B opportunity that closed a Japan deal, to a live growth dashboard I shipped to practice what I preach.

MEM + CS, NC State · May 2026

Resume

Growth PM & APM · Open to relocate in the US

About Me

I started in CS because I liked building things. But somewhere along the way I started caring more about whether the thing should exist, who it was for, and why people weren't actually using it. Engineering couldn't answer those questions. So I went looking for the other half.

MEM was that search. And somewhere in the middle of it, during an IBM Design Thinking Capstone, things clicked. My team was studying littering around bus stops in Raleigh. The easy assumption was obvious. But when I sat down and actually talked to the people at those stops, everything shifted. The problem wasn't behavioral, it was structural. That project gave me something I carry into everything: the people closest to the problem are never the problem.

What I'm looking for

Roles at the intersection of product, business, and technology, where getting close to the problem is still the job.

NC State bell tower with Mr. and Mrs. Wuf

GO Pack!

Work Experience

Research first, then execution. Every role below.

Product Strategy & Operations

MSiReader · Raleigh, USA

Aug 2025 to Dec 2025

An open-source scientific software tool that lets researchers visualize and analyze mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) data.

Conducted 20 user interviews and surveys reaching 3,000+ users, identifying trial unawareness as the core adoption barrier and recommending a targeted onboarding strategy to leadership.
Authored PRDs defining problem statements, user friction points, and adoption success metrics based on 1,200 survey responses, translating research into actionable recommendations for engineering and leadership.
Delivered 2 critical product insights to CEO covering trial unawareness and output quality perception gap versus competitors, directly reframing product strategy from market expansion to positioning.
Identified $4.4B B2B expansion opportunity through competitive analysis of global mass spectrometry hardware providers, recommending a bundling partnership model that contributed to a closed partnership in Japan.

Closed B2B partnership in Japan · $4.4B opportunity identified

Product Consultant

SLA Robotics · NC State · Raleigh, USA

Jan 2025 to May 2025

NC State startup building the world's first amphibious multi-terrain robot capable of navigating land, water, and underwater terrain.

Conducted 75+ domain expert interviews across USGS, NOAA, Duke Energy, and MIT; identified wetland inspection as the primary use case, securing Andrews Launch Accelerator seed funding.
Sized a $403M SAM by analyzing OSHA compliance costs for manual diving, recommending wetland management as the highest-priority market entry point.
Developed modular pricing strategy aligning product configurations with budget structures across research institutions and utility companies.

$403M SAM identified, Seed funding secured

Product Manager Intern

Innovaccer · Noida, India

Mar 2024 to Jul 2024

Healthcare AI unicorn that unifies clinical and financial data across hospitals to power AI-driven care and administration.

Built C-suite Power BI dashboard consolidating CVE and vulnerability data from AWS across 4 product lines, tracking software end-of-life cycles using Excel pivot tables to prioritize security remediation.
Led company-wide IT compliance audit, identifying 8 critical process gaps representing $1.5M in exposure, presenting findings to the CISO who escalated to executive leadership.
Reduced unresolved security vulnerabilities by 35% coordinating cross-functional remediation syncs across product, engineering, and security teams to track and prioritize issues across all product lines.
Developed Excel budget tracking model using AWS Cost Explorer monitoring monthly security tool spend across product lines, establishing the team's first cost baseline and earning a SPOT Award.

35% reduction in vulnerabilities · SPOT Award

Business Analyst Intern

Tech Mahindra · India

Aug 2023 to Feb 2024

Global IT services company delivering AI and digital transformation solutions for Fortune 500 clients across telecom and banking.

Developed Python-based ETL pipeline extracting router telemetry from MongoDB, transforming and cleaning data across 10,000+ node records, and loading into Databricks for SQL analysis and Power BI reporting.
Performed gap analysis on router performance data using SQL across 6 regions, identifying latency anomalies and 3 recurring configuration gaps, and documenting findings in a structured report for developer resolution.
Conducted requirements elicitation with AT&T enterprise stakeholders on the Alchemy platform, translating 15+ business requirements into use cases and BRD documentation for the developer team.
Drafted user stories and functional specs for 8 Alchemy platform features across bandwidth allocation and QoS policy, collaborating with developers through the SDLC to move 5 requirements from backlog to UAT.
Built Power BI dashboards consolidating router performance and customer issue data across 6 regions, enabling stakeholder self-service reporting and presenting data-driven improvement recommendations to operations leadership.

10,000+ node ETL pipeline · 5 requirements to UAT

Research Assistant

Dept. of CSE · AKTU · India

Aug 2022 to May 2023

University research on genetic marker-based behavioral prediction using machine learning models.

Preprocessed longitudinal genetic marker datasets (MAOA, 5-HTT) using Python (Pandas, Missingno); trained SVM, ANN & Random Forest models; SVM achieved 84% classification accuracy.
Published a peer-reviewed IEEE paper (IC3I 2022) and led a team of 4 on research in genetic marker-based behavioral prediction.

84% SVM accuracy, IEEE IC3I 2022 published

Collaborated with

IBM·MEM Program · NC State·NC Sea Grant

Selected work

Case studies and projects where I owned discovery, prioritization, and execution.

Case Studies

Food TechProduct DesignUser Research

FoodMindful People's Choice Award

From grocery receipts to zero waste. Built a decision elimination tool for busy professionals. Won People's Choice Award at NC State InnoLab Demo Day.

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ResearchEnvironmentalField work

IBM Capstone: Marsh Creek Watershed

Research at bus stop hotspots for NC Sea Grant to understand pollution pathways and reduce watershed impact.

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AI / MLSupply ChainAnalytics

MEM Executive Challenge: AI Supply Chain Visibility

Enterprise case study on demand forecasting, real-time visibility, and inventory optimization to respond faster to disruptions.

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Built for Fun

Side projects I shipped in a single session. Vibe coded through Cursor.

Vibe CodedConsumer ProductCreative Tech

Expression Photo Booth

A browser-based party photo booth with 4 expression poses, filters, and downloadable photo strips. Built and shipped in one session.

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Computer VisionVibe CodedGame DevCreative Tech

Don't Wake the Blob

Hand-tracking game where you catch falling objects with your index finger to protect a sleeping blob. Built with MediaPipe, a custom physics engine on HTML5 Canvas, and procedurally generated Web Audio sounds. No frameworks. No game engine. Just the web platform.

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AISaaSGrowthOpen AI APIVibe Coded

GrowthOS

Built because early-stage companies waste hours stitching together Mixpanel, Baremetrics, and spreadsheets to answer one question. GrowthOS brings funnel data, experiment results, and MRR impact into one dashboard, with funnel visualization, experiment simulation, MRR modeling, and a Revenue Ops view for billing and enterprise pipeline.

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