Aviral Vaid

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ABOUT AVIRAL VAID

I became a PM by accident — someone offered me the role during a data science interview. I said yes out of curiosity — it\'s a core trait. Before product, I was a materials science researcher — data analysis, simulation, visualization. Understanding how complex systems behave under stress turned out to be excellent PM training.Today I\'m a Senior PM at LeanIX (SAP). I work on data quality and enterprise architecture tools. My dev team is fully AI-native.On the side, I build. I\'ve spent a year creating a PM operating system — small tools that handle the work you do every day but never think about. Context gathering, knowledge retention, decision tracking, turning meetings into action. Each piece is simple. None of them change your work overnight. But they compound — like going to the gym three times a week, the results accumulate until one day you realize you\'re operating at a pace that shouldn\'t be possible for one person.I help product organizations build the same kind of thing:→ Workflow audits — find friction, build tools that remove it→ Custom tool development — connect AI to your internal systems→ Hands-on workshops — building, not theory→ 1:1 coaching — for PMs who want to build, not just promptI write weekly on Avi\'s Footnotes — looking at systems in the lived world and in tech, and connecting the two.