19 years building products that people actually use. The last three shipping at scale inside major UK government programmes — serving millions of citizens, leading teams across complex organisations, turning delivery friction into repeatable practice.
An AI platform for Vedic philosophy and Sanatan Dharma — making thousands of years of Indic wisdom searchable, conversational, and alive. The most personal product I've ever built.
askvedika.com →Essays on AI and product on Medium — hands-on model face-offs, PM playbooks, honest scorecards. And a long-form mytho-sci-fi novel in progress, where ancient philosophy meets machine intelligence.
medium.com/@umangshankar →Weekend experiments in public — local LLMs on a Mac mini, browser extensions, prediction engines, and whatever else the current obsession demands. Shipping small keeps the craft sharp.
github.com/UmangShankar →Lifelong obsession. If a match is on, assume this process has the highest priority — I once built a full World Cup predictor app just to settle arguments with friends properly.
Two wheels, an open road, and no meetings. I helped bring Harley-Davidson to a new market early in my career — the love of machines came first, the job followed.
A six-day hybrid strength split, scheduled like a cron job and treated with the same seriousness as any production system. Discipline compounds — in the gym and in product.