Ashutosh Pradhan

About Ashutosh Pradhan

What if your TPM also understood exactly how engineers think, write, and ship? That\'s the edge I bring.I\'m a Technical Program Manager with 20 years of experience spanning AI/ML platforms, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and semiconductor systems - at companies including Amazon Web Services, F5/NGINX, and General Electric. I currently lead documentation programs at a stealth AI startup building next-generation inference infrastructure. I specialize in standing up scalable programs from scratch, orchestrating cross-functional delivery, and translating ambiguous technical complexity into structured execution.At my current company - an AI inference platform at the frontier of LLM hardware - I built the documentation program infrastructure from the ground up: a JIRA-driven intake system that cut ad hoc submission noise by 80%, a contributor enablement program that scaled documentation ownership from 2 to 12 engineers in 90 days and drove a 30% throughput increase, and editorial protocols that lifted document clarity scores by 25%. I led cross-functional coordination across Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Engineering - the core motion of a TPM role.Earlier at AWS, I architected the documentation framework for Annual Planning software used across global sales organizations - building program structure where none existed and coordinating delivery across PMs, UX, and development teams. At F5/NGINX, I restructured internal knowledge systems and drove continuous delivery cycles inside lean Agile teams.My background in Electrical Engineering, a Master\'s in Technology Management (UIUC), and certifications in Scrum (CSM, CSPO) and Lean Six Sigma give me the technical fluency and process discipline to lead complex programs - not just track them.What I\'m known for: bringing structure to ambiguity, accelerating cross-team alignment, and shipping programs that stick. I work well with engineering leadership and know how to move technical initiatives from 0→1 without losing stakeholder trust along the way.Skills & focus areas: Technical Program Management · AI/ML Platforms · Developer Experience · Cloud (AWS) · Agile/Scrum · Content Systems · Knowledge Architecture · Cross-functional Stakeholder Management · Python · API Documentation · Docs-as-Code · LLM ToolingLet\'s c••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Technical Program Manager

   Stealth AI Startup

   May 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Science - MS, Technology Management (Engineering Management)

• Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering