Ankit Kumar

Product Manager || ❤️ System Design || ✍️ Python

I’m Ankit Kumar, a product-first builder with a deep belief in solving real human problems through AI and simplicity.

As the founder of Hiron AI, I built and scaled an AI-driven hiring ecosystem that removed outdated job boards and reimagined how candidates get discovered. The product was successfully acquired, and the journey gave me full-stack experience in zero-to-one product strategy, user-centric design, and technical execution.

💡 What I do today
I help teams design better products, with strong research, tight execution, and a ruthless focus on value. Whether I’m mentoring engineers, contributing to AI product development, or helping early teams craft their first case studies and MVPs, I keep the user at the center of every decision.

🛠️ Core skills
• Building and scaling AI-first B2B/B2C products
• Deep involvement in product research, prototyping & GTM
• Leading cross-functional teams (PM, Design, Engineering)
• Staying hands-on: Python • LLMs • Cloud • ML

👨‍🏫 I also mentor aspiring PMs, product engineers, and founders, not with fluff, but by sharing real playbooks from the trenches.

If you're building something meaningful or looking for someone who’s shipped, scaled, and sold product, let’s connect.

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Software Engineer • LinkedIn Top Voice ’24 • 170K+ Followers • International Open Source Awardee • Educator • Google Connect Winner'19 • Scholar GHCI'20 • Winner SIH, 21U21 Award

Saumya is a Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience in the industry, an Influencer, and an Educator.

For speaker invitations, orientation events, and seminars: saumya.globalhq@gmail.com

She has good experience in coding, development (android) and leadership roles.
She has been honored with the International Women In Opensource Academic Award 2020  as a finalist based on her leadership qualities, community involvement and contributions. 
She has good experience in mentoring students ( GCI Mentor,  guided open-source enthusiasts for GSoC at KWOC'19 (IIT-Kharagpur Initiative ) and much more.
Saumya has been Developer Advocate and Content Creator at AnitaB.org open-source teams.
She has been winner & runner-up of 7+ hackathons from Smart India Hackathon 2019(India’s Biggest Hackathon that involves 2 Lakh+ students) to Delhi Police Hackathon 2019.

Contact- 

saumya.globalhq@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/saumya1singh
https://twitter.com/saumya1singh
https://bio.link/saumya
https://saumyasingh.netlify.app/
https://github.com/saumya1singh
https://saumyasingh1.github.io/Saumya-Singh/#

Saumya Singh

Three years ago, one of my mentees sat in front of me completely confused.

She was working hard. Watching videos. Taking courses. Putting in hours every single day.

But she had one problem.

She did not know what actually mattered.

I did one simple thing. Prepared a solid roadmap for her career. Chose skills based on demand not noise.

Fast forward to today.

She has a 30 Lakh job. Same effort. Same energy. Only the direction changed.

And this story feels personal to me. Because my life changed the same way.

Mentors and gurus played a massive role in my journey.

Right direction is everything.

You can work 12 hours a day. But if you are climbing the wrong ladder. You will still feel stuck.

A little clarity from someone who has already walked that path can change everything. Experience matters.

If you feel lost right now, you are not behind, you just need direction. 

I have opened limited one to one mentorship slots, where I help you build a personalized career roadmap based on your background and goals. 

Book your 1:1 Mentorship call with me before slots are gone -  https://lnkd.in/dtBTbrW4

You will also get practical resources like ATS resume templates, LinkedIn optimization guides and structured learning paths. 

Sometimes all it takes is one right conversation.

Yours truly,
Saumya Singh

Saumya  Singh

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I used to live for Saturdays.

Not because of rest or breaks. Because Saturday used to be my cheat day. The one day I gave myself permission to eat what I actually wanted.

Monday to Friday? Strict. Disciplined. Denying cravings. Convincing myself that discipline meant restriction.

By Wednesday, my mind would already start planning the binge. What restaurant. How much I'd eat because "this is my only chance."

Then, saturday would come and I'd overindulge because I convinced myself this was my only opportunity. I had to make it count. And by Sunday, the guilt would hit. 

The bloating. The discomfort. The promise to myself that Monday would be different.

I stayed stuck in that cycle. Thinking this was what discipline looked like.

This year, something shifted.

After a long day of back to back meetings, I was craving ice cream - not the sugar free, tasteless version that feels like punishment. 

My first instinct was to wait till Saturday. But then I stopped and asked myself - why?

Why am I waiting for permission to enjoy something as simple as ice cream?

That's when I found Go Zero ❤️ Zero added sugar. And it actually tasted like ice cream. Not like a compromise I had to force myself to finish.

That moment changed everything for me.

The problem was never my cravings. 

The problem was this belief I'd built in my head that good food had to taste bad, and food that tasted good had to come with guilt attached.

Restriction didn't make me disciplined. It just made me rebound harder every weekend.

Now, I don't have cheat days. I have daily choices that don't require a weekly pardon. 

I don't wait for Saturday to have ice cream.

Thank you Kiran Shah for Go Zero!

These 2 interview questions almost cost my mentee a 22 LPA Data Scientist role at a tech giant 😲

They weren’t tricky, but they tested how he thinks.

📌 Question 1: “Your model accuracy improved, but business KPIs dropped after deployment. What happened?”

This question checks whether you understand that offline metrics and not just business impact. A strong answer looks beyond accuracy and asks:
→ Are we optimizing the right metric?
→ Did class imbalance hide costly errors?
→ Did data drift or threshold changes affect real users?

👉 Interviewers here want to see if you can connect model behavior to business outcomes, not just quote metrics.

📌 Question 2: “A recommendation model increased CTR but reduced session duration. How would you evaluate this and decide whether to roll it back?”

This tests your ability to handle conflicting signals. A good approach:
→ Check statistical significance (A/B test, confidence intervals)
→ Evaluate business significance (short-term clicks vs long-term engagement)
→ Use guardrail metrics before making rollback decisions

👉 Higher CTR isn’t always a win if it hurts retention.

So, the real lesson here is that Data Science interviews aren’t about fancy algorithms or deep learning models alone. They’re about ML fundamentals, structured thinking, and decision-making under ambiguity.

Tools change. Frameworks change. But fundamentals + reasoning are what get you hired 💪

This is exactly what they focus on while mentoring candidates at Bosscoder Academy, thinking like a Data Scientist, not just coding like one.

🔗 Explore their Data Science program here → bcalinks.com/FVtSQAE

They’ve helped 2200+ professionals transition successfully through:
💡 A structured curriculum covering Advanced Python libraries, Maths, ML & Deep Learning.
💡 Industry-grade projects using real-world datasets to build a solid portfolio.
💡 1:1 mentorship from Data Scientists at top product companies.
💡 100% placement assistance to help you land your next data role.

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