Ananya's Profile

Professional Journey

Sept 2025- Jan 2026

SuperAgent(Acquired by Airtable) | MBA Product Strategist

Collaborated with go-to-market (GTM) lead for an agentic AI platform, driving adoption from 0 → 35% of a 350-student MBA cohort. Leveraged user research, competitive positioning, and feedback loops with 40+ early adopters to refine messaging and accelerate uptake.
Conducted 25+ user interviews and analyzed usage data to identify top 3 high-value use cases (career prep, case analysis, research). Repositioned the product around these workflows, resulting in 3× higher engagement and informing the post-acquisition roadmap for the education vertical.
Built and executed an A/B testing framework to validate feature hypotheses; optimized onboarding flow and prompt recommendations using behavioral data. Improved 7-day retention from 40% → 68%, strengthening product stickiness and early user activation.

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Cotiviti | Program Manager- Summer Intern

Partnered with product, operations, and data teams to define requirements and delivery plan for an enterprise AI chatbot supporting 200+ frontline agents across 4 workflows. Conducted 12 stakeholder interviews and translated business needs into product specifications, shaping MVP scope and accelerating delivery timeline by ~3 weeks.
Analyzed 15+ operational workflows and vendor data exchange processes to identify automation opportunities; contributed to a business case for ML-enabled file transformation projected to reduce manual processing time by ~30% and save 400+ operational hours annually.
Managed roadmap and documentation for an ML-based data transformation feature in AWS, coordinating across 5 cross-functional teams (data, UX, engineering, operations). Defined 6 success metrics and aligned timelines, improving data pipeline efficiency by ~25% and enhancing user experience for internal teams.

2021 - 2023

Accenture | Senior Software Engineer

● Architected API integration platform enabling 110% increase in client onboarding across 50+ enterprise healthcare clients; designed RESTful APIs and collaborated with IBM and Epic partners on scalability and integration.

● Built CI/CD automation framework (Java-Selenium-Jenkins) from scratch, reducing manual testing by 21 hrs/week and cutting release cycles from monthly to weekly; enabled 40% faster feature delivery for 200K+ users.

● Investigated 50+ critical API failures; built monitoring dashboards and preventive solutions that improved system uptime 92%→99.2%, reducing support escalations 35%, and accelerating issue resolution 65% through real-time alerting.

● Developed and shipped 15+ product features including ML-based personalized recommendation engine and referral tracking; partnered with product and design teams on A/B testing strategy, lifting 25% user engagement and 18% feature adoption.

2017 - 2021

Cognizant | Programmer Analyst

● Built MVP automation framework reducing manual effort by 90% and boosting efficiency by 75%; delivered client demo, secured executive buy-in, and managed end-to-end product lifecycle aligning roadmap with business goals.

● Led 15-member team migrating agent onboarding infrastructure to cloud for Sammons Financial Group, improving retention by 87% and generating $22M in cost savings; documented best practices and conducted mentorship sessions to upskill junior engineers.

Education

2024 - 2026

Vanderbilt University | Master's in Business Administration

Nashville, TN

Concentrations: Strategy | Operations & Analytics | Entrepreneurship (STEM)

GMAT: 710 | 80% tuition Scholarship

Leadership: Tech Club (Vice President), Founder’s Circle (Founding Member), Women’s Business Association (Internal Affairs Chair)

2014 - 2016

Heritage Institute of Technology | Masters in Technology

Kolkata, India

Major: Electronics Engineering
GPA: 3.89
Leadership: Robotics Club (President)

Skills & Expertise