Applied AI · Retail · FinTech

Vikram
Yeldandi

AI Product Leader

15+ years driving digital transformation across Retail, FinTech, and SaaS. Now building and deploying AI agents that solve real business problems.

15+
Years in Product
18
AI Agents & Counting
$100M+
GMV Influenced
Vikram Yeldandi — AI Product Leader
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About

I'm an AI Product Leader with 15+ years of experience driving end-to-end digital transformation across eCommerce, FinTech, ElderTech, and Utilities. I've led product strategy across iconic brands including The North Face, Vans, Timberland, and Williams-Sonoma, Inc..

I'm now focused on the intersection of AI and product management — building, evaluating, and shipping AI-powered systems that create measurable business outcomes. This portfolio showcases AI agents I designed and deployed across Retail, Retail SaaS, and FinTech domains.

Each agent demonstrates a core concept in applied AI — from RAG and guardrails to multi-step orchestration and multimodal analysis.

Current Role
Head of Product · N28 Technologies, San Francisco
Past Companies
VF Corporation · Williams-Sonoma, Inc. · Wells Fargo · Omatochi
Education
MS Computer Management · University of Pune
Certifications
Wharton eCPO (Pursuing) · GenAI for PM · SAFe
Location
Denver, CO
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AI Agents

NEXT DEPLOYMENT · STEALTH MODE

Agent — Classified 🤖 🧠 ⚙️

  • The model shouldn't matter.
  • Your goal becomes the command.
  • The outcome does the rest.
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Agent 01

Retail Store Policy FAQ Bot

Grounded customer service agent that answers policy questions from a verified document — with guardrails that block off-topic queries and escalate fraud.

Retail System Prompt Grounding Guardrails

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Agent 02

Retail Product Knowledge Base

Full RAG pipeline over a 100-product catalogue — answers questions by retrieving from Pinecone and showing which products were used.

Retail SaaS RAG Pinecone Vector Search

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Agent 03

RAG Quality Eval Agent

LLM-as-Judge pipeline — runs 20 benchmark questions against Agent 02, scores each on Accuracy, Completeness, and Grounding, and produces a pass-rate report.

Retail SaaS Evals LLM-as-Judge Metrics

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Agent 04

Guardrailed Fintech Support Agent

Support bot for Finsera digital banking — answers account questions, refuses financial advice, blocks competitor mentions, and escalates fraud immediately with 6 active guardrails.

FinTech Guardrails Input Filtering Escalation

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Agent 05

Promotional Copy Generator

Generates on-brand marketing copy in multiple formats — email subject line, product description, social caption, and push notification — from a product name and key features.

Retail Structured Output Multi-Format Brand Tone

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Agent 06

Multimodal Product Image Analyser

Accepts product images and returns structured descriptions, attributes, and quality flags — combining vision and language for automated catalogue enrichment.

Retail Vision / Multimodal Image-to-Text Structured Output

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Agent 07

Agentic Order Management Bot

Hybrid 2-call agentic pipeline for Caden Electronics — intent extraction, zero-token JS order lookup, and contextual support responses with a live reasoning trace visible in the UI.

eCommerce Agentic Workflow Tool Use Thought Trace

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Agent 08

AI Decision Approval Workflow Agent

Confidence scoring, HITL governance thresholds, and auto-approve / route / escalate logic — demonstrating how AI systems should decide when to act autonomously vs. defer to humans.

HITL Design Governance Confidence Scoring Escalation

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Agent 09

Structured Data Extractor

Parses unstructured documents — PDFs, emails, forms — and outputs validated JSON conforming to a defined schema, with field-level confidence scores on every extracted value.

Document Parsing JSON Schema Confidence Scoring Structured Output

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Agent 10

Prompt Injection Red Team Agent

Adversarially tests LLM systems for prompt injection vulnerabilities — identifying attack vectors, testing guardrail robustness, and suggesting mitigations.

AI Security Adversarial Testing Safety Evaluation

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Agent 11

Personalised Product Recommender

Recommends products based on customer profile, purchase history, and browsing context — with conditional reasoning and explainable justification for each recommendation.

Retail Personalisation Recommendations Explainability

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Agent 12

AI Product PRD Generator

Transforms a brief product idea into a structured PRD — including problem statement, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics — using AI to scaffold product thinking.

Meta-AI PRD Product Design

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Agent 13

Customer Review Intelligence Agent

Classifies sentiment, clusters themes, and ranks issues by frequency across raw customer reviews — outputting a prioritised product insight report with business-ready findings.

Sentiment Analysis Theme Clustering Insight Report Retail

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Agent 14

AI Use Case ROI Estimator

Takes an AI use case description and outputs estimated efficiency gain, implementation complexity, risk level, and recommended next steps — translating AI capability into business language.

ROI Estimation Business Value Effort/Impact Scoring

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Agent 15

GitHub Repo Intelligence Agent

Pastes a GitHub URL and returns a live briefing — stack, activity signal, issue themes, and health verdict — powered by four real MCP tool calls to the GitHub API.

MCP GitHub API Repo Analysis Tool Use

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Agent 16

Multi-Agent Marketing Repurposer

Six specialist agents — orchestrator, four channel writers, and a synthesiser — transform one piece of content into a consistent campaign pack across Email, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and Product Hunt.

Multi-Agent Marketing Parallel Execution

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Agent 17

Transaction Narrative Enrichment

Transforms raw bank transaction strings into clean, categorised, human-readable descriptions — merchant name resolved, category classified, channel identified, and confidence scored in a single pass.

FinTech Transaction Enrichment Classification Structured Output

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Agent 18

AdFit — Creative Resize Briefer

Describe your marketing creative and get a precise, opinionated resizing brief for every format — crop anchors, safe zones, copy rules, and platform restrictions across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, and display.

Creative Ops Paid Social Display Ads Marketing

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Skills & Tools

AI & GenAI

  • RAG Systems
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Guardrails Design
  • Evals & LLM-as-Judge
  • Agentic Workflows
  • Multi-step Orchestration
  • Multimodal AI
  • Vibe Coding

Product Leadership

  • Product Strategy & Vision
  • Portfolio Roadmapping
  • OKRs & North Star Metrics
  • Stakeholder Management
  • GTM Planning
  • A/B Testing
  • Agile / SAFe Delivery
  • Team Hiring & Mentorship

Domain Expertise

  • eCommerce & Omnichannel
  • Payments & Checkout
  • Loyalty & Retention
  • FinTech & Banking
  • Retail SaaS
  • ElderTech
  • Utilities
  • API/MCP Integration

Platforms & Tools

  • Claude.ai & Anthropic API
  • ChatGPT / Gemini
  • Amplitude & Tableau
  • AWS & MuleSoft
  • Shopify Plus & SFCC
  • Adyen & Klarna
  • Narvar & NotebookLM
  • GitHub Pages
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Pinecone
  • n8n
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Experience

AI and Generative AI product leader who can build and ship agents that deliver real user and business outcomes. I translate model behaviour, prompt engineering, guardrails, and agentic architecture into scalable products that users and organisations can trust — closing the gap between what AI can do and what businesses actually need.

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Applied AI & GenAI Product

Hands-on experience designing and deploying production AI agents including grounded FAQ bots, RAG pipelines, multi-step orchestrators, and multimodal agents. Deep fluency in system prompt design, guardrails, context window management, tool use, and evaluation frameworks. Currently building a portfolio of 18 agents across Retail, FinTech, and developer tooling domains.

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Retail & eCommerce Leadership

Led omnichannel commerce strategy for The North Face, Vans, Timberland, Pottery Barn, and West Elm — owning checkout, payments, loyalty, and personalisation at scale. Delivered $120M+ incremental GMV through conversion optimisation and AI-assisted product discovery. Proven ability to ship in complex, multi-brand, regulated environments.

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FinTech & Digital Banking

Wells Fargo — Mobile banking for 8M+ users; fraud detection (−31% losses), bill pay, open banking APIs, PCI compliance.

VF Corporation — Unified Payment Platform (Adyen), GDPR & CCPA, KYC, payment rails modernisation, Klarna BNPL launch.

Metavante Corporation — Foundational fintech: banking tech, payment processing, and enterprise solutions for financial institutions.

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Strategy & Team Leadership

Operated at Principal and Head of Product level — defining multi-year roadmaps, building product teams from scratch, and aligning cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, data science, design, and commercial. Experienced in OKR frameworks, SAFe agile delivery, GTM planning, and board-level product storytelling.

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Data-Driven Execution

Ran 60+ A/B experiments annually across conversion funnels, delivering $40M+ in incremental revenue. Proficient in Amplitude, Tableau, and cohort analysis. Applied LLM-as-Judge evaluation frameworks to measure AI agent accuracy, hallucination rates, and guardrail effectiveness — bringing rigour to AI product quality that most teams lack.

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Technical Depth & Integration

Fluent across the modern AI and commerce stack — Anthropic API, Claude, RAG, vector search, MCP, Cloudflare Workers, Shopify Plus, SFCC, Adyen, Klarna, AWS, MuleSoft. Able to prototype directly, review technical architecture, and partner effectively with engineering on complex integrations without losing speed or commercial focus.

Brands & Orgs The North Face Vans Timberland Pottery Barn West Elm Williams Sonoma Wells Fargo Omatochi N28 Technologies Metavante (FIS) Gymboree

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What's Next in AI Product

If you're building something ambitious at the intersection of AI and commerce — and you need a product leader who can ship agents, define strategy, and drive measurable outcomes — let's talk.