Kanka Kulkarni

About Kanka Kulkarni

I’m drawn to messy, high-stakes problems where technology, people, and process collide — and where clarity is more valuable than speed.My work sits at the intersection of product, data, and applied AI. I enjoy taking ambiguous business questions, pressure-testing assumptions with data, and shaping them into products that teams can actually build and customers can actually use. Over time, I’ve learned that the hardest part of building products isn’t ideation or execution in isolation - it’s aligning incentives, constraints, and decision-makers around a shared narrative. I’m motivated by products that reduce cognitive load for users by replacing fragmented tools, manual workarounds, and institutional knowledge with systems that feel intuitive and trustworthy.My background across analytics, finance, and engineering has shaped a pragmatic approach to product management: • Ask better questions before proposing solutions • Treat data as a thinking partner, not just validation • Design for scale, but respect operational realityOutside work, I enjoy cooking, exploring new places, reading across disciplines, and tinkering with emerging AI tools and side projects to reset how I think.I value environments that reward intellectual honesty, strong ownership, and collaboration across disciplines, and I’m always interested in conversations about building products that last.

Experience

1. Senior Consultant

   Tango

   Apr 2026 — Present · TX, US

Education

• Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

  Masters of Quantitative Management, Business Analytics: Marketing and Strategy

• Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics

  2012 — 2016

• K J Somaiya Institute of Management

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, General

  2016 — 2018