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Singh

Engineering

How things work.

Product

What’s worth building, and how.

Now

Design, marketing, and distribution.

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Now

Building
  • Personal operating systemProjects, ideas, and experiments, organised in one workspace and built with AI agents
  • Personal research wikiCurated sources and synthesis notes on AI agents, app design, mobile growth, content creation, and product management
Exploring
  • App research, onboarding, and product designStudying how successful apps onboard, retain, and grow users
  • Ad generation and video editingProducing short ads and videos with AI
  • Distribution and marketingTesting how a product reaches its first users
Up next
  • Viah ModePunjabi wedding planning app
  • dayCdayDecision journal
  • mittafinFinancial calculators
  • JevTypeSafe’s typed decision models
  • Agentic paymentsIncluding stablecoin payments

Approach

How I work

From my product work at AUTO1 Group.

01

Discover

Internal-user and stakeholder discovery to shape priorities.

02

Specify

Regulatory, finance, and payment requirements translated into product specs.

03

Ship

Co-led two Agile squads of 12+ engineers.

04

Measure

SQL dashboards to monitor product performance after launch.

Senior Product Manager · 2023 – 2025

Product work at AUTO1

Lead PM

Merchant Financing

Owned the product end to end as it scaled to a €100M+ financed portfolio across 8 European markets.

Lead PM

Dynamic FX

Central point of contact for the company-wide move from fixed to dynamic cross-border rates.

Lead PM

Inbound Payments

Handled the company’s inbound bank payments at multi-billion-euro scale, improving matching and attribution.

Owner

Platform ↔ ERP

API-driven integration between the platform and Oracle ERP, from invoicing to revenue recognition.

Trajectory

From chemical engineering to product

2009 – 2014

BSc Chemical Engineering

University of Alberta

Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, reactor analysis, and process engineering.

May 2019 – Nov 2025

AUTO1 Group

  • Senior Product Manager2023 – 25
  • Product Manager2022
  • Junior Product Manager2021
  • Operations Manager2019 – 21
Dec 2025 – Jul 2026

Sabbatical

Time with family and friends, and travel.

Aug 2026 – Present

Experimenting with product building

Building and testing products with AI agents, and exploring app research, ad generation, and distribution.

04  ·  Shelf

Reading

Inside the BoxD. Epstein
Currently reading

Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better

David Epstein

Psycho-CyberneticsM. Maltz
Currently reading

Psycho-Cybernetics

Maxwell Maltz

Recently finished

Leisure, the Basis of Culture

Leisure, the Basis of Culture

Josef Pieper
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson
Sandworms of Dune

Sandworms of Dune

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Hunters of Dune

Hunters of Dune

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Chapterhouse

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune

Heretics of Dune

Frank Herbert
Earlier finished4 books
God Emperor of DuneFrank Herbert
Children of DuneFrank Herbert
Dune MessiahFrank Herbert
DuneFrank Herbert

05  ·  Background

About

I studied chemical engineering before moving into product management, where I found a mix I enjoy: working through technical problems with engineers and working with the business side of what gets built.

Over time, I became curious about what happens beyond delivery: testing an idea, explaining it clearly, and helping it reach the people it is for.

After more than six years at AUTO1 Group, where I moved from operations into product, I took a sabbatical from December 2025 to July 2026 to spend time with family and friends and follow my curiosity. Since August 2026, I’ve been experimenting with product ideas, content, automation, and AI.

Skills
Product deliveryRequirements definition, stakeholder discovery, and roadmap collaboration
Payments and financeMerchant financing, inbound payments, FX workflows, API and ERP integrations
AI-assisted buildingAgentic workflows, reusable skills, review loops, specification-based testing
Data and systemsSQL, performance dashboards, process mapping, systems thinking
Tools
AI and developmentClaude Code, Cowork, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Git
Product and analysisJira, Confluence, Linear, Notion, SQL, PostHog
InfrastructureCloudflare, Supabase, Neon, Sentry, OpenRouter
Languages
  • EnglishNative
  • GermanConversational (B1/B2)
  • FrenchBeginner (A1)
Education and courses
  • BSc Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Alberta2009 – 2014
  • Machine Learning SpecializationDeepLearning.AI & Stanford University2023
  • AI Product ManagerUdacity2023
  • Web Development BootcampUdemy2023
  • AI Programming with PythonUdacity2022

Self-directed study across marketing and product marketing, product management in an AI world, computer science and AI/ML, design, and content creation.