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Rahul Kalashetti

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6+ years getting messy, multi-team programs out the door, across AI, SaaS, and enterprise tech.

๐Ÿ“ Bangalore, India ๐Ÿ’ผ TELUS Digital ๐Ÿ• โ€ฆ
currently
TPM @ TELUS Digital
0+years exp
0%release accuracy โ†‘
0%defects reduced
OKR Management AI Initiatives Agile/Scrum Go-to-Market Stakeholders Python
Technical Program Managerโœฆ AI Initiativesโœฆ OKR Managementโœฆ Stakeholder Alignmentโœฆ Agile / Scrumโœฆ Product Strategyโœฆ Cross-functional Deliveryโœฆ Python Automationโœฆ Go-to-Marketโœฆ Release Managementโœฆ Operational Excellenceโœฆ Enterprise Scaleโœฆ Technical Program Managerโœฆ AI Initiativesโœฆ OKR Managementโœฆ Stakeholder Alignmentโœฆ Agile / Scrumโœฆ Product Strategyโœฆ Cross-functional Deliveryโœฆ Python Automationโœฆ Go-to-Marketโœฆ Release Managementโœฆ Operational Excellenceโœฆ Enterprise Scaleโœฆ

The person behind the programs

I'm a Technical Program Manager with 6+ years across AI, SaaS, and enterprise tech. My job is simple to describe and hard to do: get engineering, product, and business to agree on a plan, then make sure it actually ships.

Right now I'm at TELUS Digital, leading delivery across 4+ AI product squads โ€” covering AI data annotation platforms, LLM evaluation pipelines, and customer experience AI products. I own OKR planning, launch readiness gates, and the cross-functional coordination that keeps multi-quarter programs on track without burning teams out.

Outside of programs, I like automating busywork. If a status update can be a Python script instead of a meeting, I'll write the script.

Program Management
Agile / Scrum
Stakeholder Management
Python / Automation
Tools & Platforms
Linear Jira Confluence n8n Notion GitHub Postman Slack Retool FastAPI React OpenAI API
education
B.E. Computer Science
Gogte Institute of Technology, 2015โ€“2019
certifications
Google Project Management Certificate
Coursera ยท Agile Project Management
location
Bangalore, India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Career changelog

v4.0
Jun 2025 โ€“ Present
TELUS Digital
Technical Program Manager โ— in production
๐Ÿ“ Bangalore, India ยท Full-time

TELUS Digital (formerly TELUS International) is the digital experience and AI services arm of TELUS, building AI data solutions and customer experience platforms for global brands. I run delivery for multi-quarter AI initiatives, working day-to-day with engineering, product, and business teams.

  • Run OKR planning, tracking, and quarterly reviews for 4+ AI product squads
  • Work with PMs and engineering leads on roadmaps, turning vague asks into plans teams can actually commit to
  • Set up launch review gates (readiness checklists, go/no-go calls) that cut production incidents at launch
  • Built Python scripts and dashboards that flag sprint risks, dependencies, and release blockers before they bite
  • Keep engineering, legal, compliance, and leadership in sync for high-visibility AI launches
v3.0
Nov 2022 โ€“ Apr 2025
UrbanPiper
Technical Program Manager / Senior QA Engineer โ— shipped
๐Ÿ“ Bangalore, India ยท Full-time

UrbanPiper powers restaurant tech: integrations with Swiggy, Zomato, Dunzo, and 20+ POS systems for brands like McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut. I split my time between running programs and owning quality for the critical integrations.

  • Led Project Prism, an overhaul of our release process: release accuracy up 35%, production defects down 40%
  • Reworked sprint cadence and dependency mapping across 3 squads: throughput up 20%, rollover stories down 15%
  • Owned QA for the Swiggy, Zomato, and POS integrations: API contract tests, edge cases, regression suites
  • Ran blameless post-mortems and turned what we learned into playbooks other teams picked up
  • Managed go-live readiness for 10+ restaurant brand onboardings: timelines, risks, sign-offs
v2.0
Feb 2022 โ€“ Sep 2022
Future Focus (Pfizer)
Software Test Engineer โ— shipped
๐Ÿ“ Bangalore, India ยท Contract

Worked with Pfizer's data engineering team (through Future Focus Infotech) on pharmaceutical data pipelines, the kind of environment where bad data isn't an option.

  • Built API and database test suites for clinical data pipelines, covering compliance and data integrity checks
  • Untangled dependencies between the ingestion, transformation, and reporting layers, which cut integration failures at release
  • Worked with release managers on readiness assessments for 3 major platform releases, all delivered on time
v1.0
Sep 2019 โ€“ Jan 2021
IonIdea
Associate Software Test Engineer โ— shipped
๐Ÿ“ Bangalore, India ยท Full-time

My first job in tech. IonIdea is an IT services company with teams in Bangalore and the US, where I tested web and mobile products and learned how software actually gets built, and broken.

  • Ran functional, regression, and UAT testing across web and mobile apps, with the test plans and defect reports to show for it
  • Worked with developers and BAs to pin down requirements before they turned into defects
  • Spotted recurring slow points in our QA workflow and proposed changes the team adopted, shortening test cycles

Things I've built

๐Ÿ›ก๏ธโ— shipped

Snyk Security Dashboard

A dashboard on top of the Snyk API: vulnerability counts by severity, SLA breach tracking, per-project drill-downs, and trend charts. One place to check AppSec status instead of clicking through Snyk project by project.

SLA breach alertsMulti-project viewTrend analysis
ReactFastAPISnyk APIRechartsPython
๐Ÿ”โ— shipped

Vendor Risk AI Assessor

Point it at a vendor's domain and it checks SSL certificates, DNS health, security headers, and open ports, then GPT-4 writes up a risk report with severity ratings and suggested fixes. Vendor due diligence without the week of back-and-forth.

Automated due diligenceGPT-4 risk scoringPDF report export
PythonGPT-4FastAPISSL/DNS scanning
๐Ÿ“Šโ— shipped

Linear Insights Agent

Ask your Linear workspace questions in plain English, like "what's blocking the team this sprint?" or "show me velocity for Q2", and it answers by fetching issues, cycles, and team data through tool calls.

Natural language queriesSprint health insightsVelocity trends
OpenAI Tool CallingLinear APIReactFastAPI
๐Ÿšดโ— shipped

RideConnect

A social platform for motorcycle riders: trip planning with routes, group ride coordination, events, a feed, and real-time chat over WebSockets. I ride, none of the existing apps did what I wanted, so I built it, auth to deployment.

Full auth systemReal-time chatTrip + event management
ReactFastAPIPostgreSQLWebSocketsJWT
๐Ÿ—บ๏ธโ— shipped

Product Roadmap Dashboard

A roadmap tool for TPMs: initiatives organised by pod, status tracking, completion stats, and a quick modal editor. Built it to get my own roadmaps out of spreadsheets.

Pod-based organisationStatus trackingCompletion analytics
ReactFastAPISQLiteVite

Let's connect

Open to TPM / Senior PM roles. Let's talk about what you're building.

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