himakar yanamandra ## Senior AI Engineer San Francisco, CA Himakar Yanamandra, a Senior AI Engineer in San Francisco, CA, specializes in AI/ML and enterprise software, holding a Master of Science in Product Management from Carnegie Mellon University. With a proven track record, Himakar has consistently delivered impactful results throughout his career. At Credit Saison, he built a credit scoring system, unlocking access for 100K+ businesses and driving $500M+ in loans. He also improved approval turnaround by 4x across 1.2M active loans and launched 7 lending partnerships, generating $25M in revenue. At Micron, he reduced debug cycle time by 18% and coordinated issue resolution, protecting $60M in revenue. His portfolio includes a software project focused on open ticket solutions. Himakar's expertise in problem-solving, coupled with his technical proficiency, allows him to quickly understand complex challenges and deliver innovative solutions, adding significant value to any team. ### Featured Projects 11 **Open Ticket Solution for Short Routes** redBus introduced an Open Ticket option for short-distance corridors. This allowed customers to prepay a single fare and receive a QR-code ticket redeemable on any participating bus within a set time window. Flexible validity window: Board any partner bus within the time frame. Uniform, pre-negotiated fare: A flat price for the route. Live list of eligible departures: Real-time ETAs and seat counts. [View Project](/content/portfolio/himakaryv/open-ticket-solution-for-short-routes/index.html) [View Resume](https://cdn.projectsyard.com/users/cmjtmtfaq0000hjlbdcti8ubi/resumes/cmjtmtfaq0000hjlbdcti8ubi-1768690780514-himakar-pm-resume-2026.pdf) ## Education Where I built the foundation of my expertise ### TEPPER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Master of Science in Product Management (Technical MBA) Class of 2025 ### INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, HYDERABAD Master of Science in Computational Linguistics and Computer Science Class of 2022 ### INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, HYDERABAD Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Class of 2019 ## Experience My professional journey and the amazing teams I've been part of ### Senior Product Management Intern HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Jul 2025 — Nov 2025 - **Product Development:** Reduced manual trend research time by 30% by building a multi-agent AI system that scans information across sources and produces ranked trends with 1-page leadership briefs. - **Strategy & Execution:** Owned the end-to-end system design of AI agents, translating leadership needs into agent objectives, success metrics, and feedback loops to continuously improve trend quality and usability. ### Senior Product Management Intern YARD AI Dec 2024 — Jun 2025 - **Product Ownership (0-1):** Led end-to-end engineering for the platform (Next.js, Prisma), an AI-assisted portfolio website that turns projects into structured case studies, owning the product spec, UX decisions, and alpha launch. - **User Experience (UX):** Engineered a RAG pipeline that grounds generated case studies in each user’s uploaded project artifacts and notes, reducing average edit time by 45% in the alpha release. ### Senior Product Manager SALUBRITY HEALTH Dec 2023 — Nov 2024 - **Product Launch (0-1):** Built automated diet and nutrition workflows to scale personalized coaching, cutting plan turnaround time by 50%. Launched MVP with user goals intake and follow-up nudges, and optimized results through A/B testing. - **Cross-Functional Execution:** Improved retention by 20% by analyzing meal logging funnel dropouts and partnering with engineering, data, and design to ship photo-based calorie capture that replaced manual entry. ### Engineering Manager, Machine Learning CREDIT SAISON Nov 2022 — Nov 2023 - **Product Leadership:** Built a new credit scoring system to underwrite underserved small businesses using alternative proxy data, unlocking first-time credit access for 100K+ business and driving $500M+ in loans disbursals in the first year. - **Innovation:** Shipped real-time credit risk and fraud scoring across lending channels by launching a multi-modal loan decisioning service, improving approval turnaround by 4x at scale (1.2M active loans, $1.2B Assets Under Management). - **Partnerships:** Launched 7 consumer lending partnerships (Amazon, Booking.com, SoftBank), aligning product, engineering, business, and client teams to take integrations live, meet annual OKRs and generate $25M in revenue. ### Product Engineer-II, Machine Learning MICRON Jun 2021 — Oct 2022 - **Data Analytics:** Built ML models to detect anomalies and cluster failure signatures on high-volume test data, reducing debug cycle time by 18% while coordinating design, process, quality, and manufacturing teams to close issues before release. - **Stakeholder Management:** Owned escalation triage and KPIs for key enterprise customers (Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz) during the global chip shortage, coordinating engineering and manufacturing to resolve 2,000+ issues and protect $60M in revenue. ### Research Engineer, Machine Learning LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS RESEARCH CENTRE, IIIT-H Dec 2016 — May 2021 - **Research Leadership:** Published 3 peer-reviewed papers by leading a 40+ member cross-functional program that built 25 medical datasets for healthcare NLP and expanded Telugu Wikipedia language coverage. ## All Projects 11](/content/portfolio/himakaryv/open-ticket-solution-for-short-routes/index.html) [**Open Ticket Solution for Short Routes**](/content/portfolio/himakaryv/open-ticket-solution-for-short-routes/index.html) redBus introduced an Open Ticket option for short-distance corridors. This allowed customers to prepay a single fare and receive a QR-code ticket redeemable on any participating bus within a set time window. Flexible validity window: Board any partner bus within the time frame. Uniform, pre-negotiated fare: A flat price for the route. Live list of eligible departures: Real-time ETAs and seat counts.