Pushkaraj Kulkarni

About Pushkaraj Kulkarni

Product Manager with ~5 years of experience building and scaling data- and AI-enabled platforms across BFSI and enterprise tech. I specialize in taking ambiguous problems from 0→1, translating them into crisp product strategy, PRDs, and measurable outcomes—while partnering deeply with engineering, design, compliance, and operations.At HSBC, I lead product initiatives across GenAI reliability (RAG evaluation/guardrails), customer-facing onboarding journeys (Smartforms), and automation at scale (RPA across geographies). My work has focused on improving adoption, reducing operational friction, and raising trust in AI-driven workflows through strong evaluation discipline, access controls, and auditability.Previously, I worked at Thoughtworks building customer-facing financial services products on microservices and AWS CI/CD, and at GE driving platform modernization through ETL rationalization and Tableau-led observability.I’m interested in roles where product thinking meets strong technical execution—AI products, platform/productivity tools, and enterprise workflows—especially where reliability, experimentation, and scale matter.

Experience

1. Product Manager - Agentic Ai

   HSBC

   Aug 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

   Built an AI evaluation + agentic workflow system for RAG pipelines to improve reliability of internal “AI assistant” solution, strengthening research and decision-support outcomes for banking teams.2. Shipped enterprise-grade guardrails (access control patterns, auditable behavior, safety checks) enabling AI components to integrate safely with banking systems.3. Implemented Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) on top of Azure-native encryption to strengthen data protection for AI platforms, enabling tighter key ownership, rotation controls, and compliance alignment for sensitive banking data.4. Established structured experimentation practices (quality scoring, regression checks, automated test runs) to reduce model/prompt drift and improve consistency across releases.5. Partnered cross-functionally with engineering, architecture, and risk stakeholders to align AI capabilities with security and governance expectations.

Education

• Walchand College of Engineering(A Govt. Aided Autonomous Institute),SANGLI-M.S

  Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

  2015 — 2019

• Indian Institute of Management Mumbai

  Master of Business Administration - MBA