Ani Pogula
San Francisco,CA
Summary
I'm passionate about all things Product, Data, and Entrepreneurship with over 8 years of founder and product management experience taking products 0 to 1. I'm a growth hacker who optimizes my life around productivity + growth and this is what I seek to bring to my work as well
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Product Manager
Vatica Health
New York, USA
03.2025 - Current
- Leading commercialization and product strategy initiatives for value-based care and risk-adjustment solutions.
- Driving cross-functional GTM execution across product, clinical, engineering, and payer/provider teams.
- Establishing KPI frameworks, operational workflows, and customer-facing readiness for major product launches.
Senior Product Manager
Datavant / Apixio
San Francisco Bay Area, USA
03.2022 - 09.2024
- Drove product strategy for Apixio's flagship healthcare AI platform, focused on Data Pipelines (ETL), MLOps, and clinical data intelligence.
- Built unified data strategy supporting migration from open-source Delta Lake to Databricks.
- Led migration of massive structured and unstructured datasets from Cassandra to Postgres, improving query speeds by 40%.
- Owned metrics for model performance and AI-driven feature effectiveness; operationalized insights into product decisions.
- Automated the Pre-Visit ML deployment pipeline-reducing delivery time from 2 weeks to under 2 days.
- Launched label-curation and feedback loops enabling monthly model releases (up from semi-annual).
- Spearheaded customer discovery with payer, provider, and health-tech enterprises.
Senior Product Manager (AI, NLP, Mobile)
SAP Labs
Palo Alto, USA
08.2018 - 02.2022
- Drove product roadmap and core features for the SAP Conversational AI platform, delivering the Q4 2020 flagship 'Digital Assistant.'
- Designed NLP pipelines to filter user utterances and improve intent accuracy to 93%.
- Led feature definition, requirement specs, and prioritization across global engineering teams (Shanghai, Reston, Bangalore, Paris).
- Conducted >35 customer sessions with Fortune 500 enterprises to refine product-market fit.
- Built SAP's analytics system end-to-end (Splunk, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Power BI) including KPI-setting and GDPR governance.
- Created analytics pipelines for mobile and conversational UX workflows.
Product Management - Stride
Atlassian
Austin, USA
06.2017 - 04.2018
- First PM intern on the Stride product (later acquired by Slack).
- Authored the V1.0 feature definition for 'Focus Mode,' including UX and behavioral design specifications.
- Set up UX analytics pipelines for Stride Video and Focus Mode using Splunk.
- Delivered competitive and opportunity analyses for future roadmap decisions.
Co-Founder/CEO
Tango
02.2016 - 07.2017
- Defined vision for core mobile dating app feature offerings/mapped out user flows/lead analytics etc.
- Led campus engagement strategies and merchant marketplace BD efforts.
- Built out core MVP using MongoDB/express/react/node.js.
- Led company through acquisition including cap table management, term sheets etc.
Software Engineering, Software Services Group
Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, USA
01.2015 - 12.2015
- Supported development cycles for internal software tooling at the Jones Farm Campus.
- Assisted with debugging, code maintenance, and product release workflows.
Education
MS. - Management
University of Illinois
Urbana-ChampaignSkills
- Roadmapping
- GTM
- Analytics
- Experimentation
- PMF Discovery
- AI/ML productization
- ETL/ELT
- MLOps
- SQL
- Cassandra/Postgres
- Databricks
- Delta Lake
- ELK Stack
- Splunk
- Agile
- Design Thinking
- Enterprise Product Strategy
- Healthcare AI
- Enterprise SaaS
- Data Platforms
- Conversational AI
Academic And Professional Engagements
- Stanford University - MS&E 265, Guest Lecturer & Class Mentor, 11/01/21, 04/01/24, Recurring lecturer on Enterprise Product Management, Machine Learning applications, and Design Thinking., Highest student feedback scores; mentored graduate-level student teams.
- Contrary, Research Fellow, 03/01/23, 05/01/23, Conducted deep-dive research on top private tech companies; published investment-grade analyses.
- DECODE, Venture Capital Fellow, 09/01/21, 04/01/22, Supported diligence efforts for one of the largest university-backed entrepreneurial networks.
- On Deck, Product Management Fellow (ODPM2), 01/01/22, 09/01/22, Selected from thousands into inaugural cohort of high-trajectory product leaders.
- Comma Capital, Venture Capital Fellow, 03/01/21, 09/01/21, Conducted early-stage sourcing, competitive analysis, and founder outreach.
Certification
CSPO
Accomplishments
Clinton Global Initiative Hackathon Winner (2016)
Timeline
Principal Product Manager
Vatica Health
03.2025 - Current
Senior Product Manager
Datavant / Apixio
03.2022 - 09.2024
Senior Product Manager (AI, NLP, Mobile)
SAP Labs
08.2018 - 02.2022
Product Management - Stride
Atlassian
06.2017 - 04.2018
Co-Founder/CEO
Tango
02.2016 - 07.2017
Software Engineering, Software Services Group
Intel Corporation
01.2015 - 12.2015
MS. - Management
University of Illinois