Chemistry Faculty · AI Product Builder · Teacher who ships

A teacher who
ships products.

Eleven years teaching JEE Chemistry to over 1,500 students. These days I build the AI tools I always wished my students had — and I love getting them into people's hands. 15+ deployed products so far. This page shares what I've built, and a little of how I think while building it.

See how I think → The products Résumé ↓

1,500+

Students taught

13,000+

Classroom hours

11 yrs

Teaching JEE/CBSE

15+

Products shipped

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Specimen · HJ-01Teacher → Builder

Reactant

Explaining a
reaction mechanism

// break a hard idea into ordered, testable steps

Product

Writing a PRD

// break a hard problem into ordered, testable steps

The classroom was my first product team. Ten years at Aakash, FIITJEE, and Amazon Academy — plus two institutes I built from scratch — taught me to notice the exact moment a learner gets stuck, and to find the smallest thing that helps them through it.

That habit turned out to be product management. So I started building the tools I wished my students had: RAG doubt-solvers, answer-grading pipelines, voice trainers, GTM agents — on a real stack, used by real students. I enjoy taking an idea all the way to something people can actually use.

Today I'm finishing HelloPM's AI Product Management program. The teacher-to-builder path has been a natural one for me — and I'm grateful for where it's led.

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The path here

A decade in the classroom → building AI products

AI Product Management · HelloPM

2026

Four-month live program. Shipped 15+ AI products and a full portfolio of PRDs, teardowns, and prototypes while completing it.

Assistant Professor, Chemistry · Aakash

Feb 2025 – Present

Teaching all three verticals of Chemistry for JEE/NEET across Class 11, 12, and repeater batches.

Associate Professor, Chemistry · FIITJEE

Apr 2023 – Feb 2025

Highest-rated Chemistry faculty at 4.78/5 across six batches. Set every Mains & Advanced paper; recorded 200+ concept videos.

Chemistry Faculty · Amazon Academy

Jan 2021 – Apr 2023

Online JEE Chemistry across long-term, crash, and rank-booster courses; authored content and question banks.

Founder & Director · Samarthya Classes

2015 – 2023

Built a coaching venture for Tier-2/3 cities. 25 of 30 students qualified JEE Advanced each year; produced AIR 760 (2018); led a Chhattisgarh govt JEE/NEET project for 100 underprivileged students.

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science

BIT Mesra, Ranchi · CGPA 7.61

2008 – 2012

Certifications

AI Product Management ↗

HelloPM · 4-month live program

2026 · ID 2H3Q8L

AI Builder Sprint 2026 ↗

HelloPM · 3-day builder sprint

2026 · ID 3VP1UL

AI Builder Series ↗

HelloPM · #BuildinPublic Challenge

Aug 2026 · ID YQSSWP · Featured in Hall of Fame ↗

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations ↗

Anthropic Education

May 2026

AI Fluency for Educators ↗

Anthropic Education

May 2026

Claude 101 ↗

Anthropic Education

May 2026

NTSE Scholar

National Talent Search Examination

2006

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Reaction Mechanism

How one product actually got built

Most portfolios show what someone built. I'd also like to share how I think while building. So here's ChemIQ — the product I've put the most into — laid out the way I'd walk a student through a reaction on the board: one step leading into the next, including the step that didn't work at first.

1 Reactant

The problem I lived

Students stuck on Chemistry at 11pm. No teacher awake, generic chatbots hallucinate, textbooks don't answer this doubt. I watched it for a decade.

2 Insight

Why generic AI fails here

JEE answers must cite the syllabus, not the internet. The doubt is often a photo of messy handwriting on a dark slide. Retrieval + vision, not a wrapper.

3 Build

The decision that mattered

Hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval over my own notes, a Groq vision model to read handwritten slides, and a multi-stage grading pipeline — answers are sourced, not guessed.

4 Side-reaction

What broke

Pure vector search returned plausible-but-wrong passages on lookalike reactions. Latency spiked on long PDFs. Both surfaced only once real students used it.

5 Product

What I learned

Evals aren't a finishing step — they're the product. RAG failure analysis now lives in the PRD before I write a line. Domain depth is the moat, not the model.

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HelloPM Coursework

Assignments & artifacts from the program

Certificate of Completion

AI Product Management Program

A four-month live program covering AI product strategy, PRDs, RAG systems, agentic tools, and end-to-end product thinking.

Issued June 2026 · HelloPM · ID 2H3Q8L

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Certificate of Achievement

AI Builder Sprint 2026

A 3-day intensive sprint building and shipping a working AI product end-to-end, assessed on a live build.

Issued July 2026 · HelloPM · ID 3VP1UL

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Certificate of Achievement

AI Builder Series

The 3-day #BuildinPublic Challenge — shipping and sharing an AI product in the open, earning a spot in the HelloPM Hall of Fame.

Issued August 2026 · HelloPM · ID YQSSWP

Verify certificate ↗ Featured in Hall of Fame ↗

Assignment 1 · Product Teardown

redBus — Flows, Frictions & Reverse-Engineering

A full teardown of redBus: mapping every flow and friction point, reverse-engineering key features, segmenting users, and prioritising problem hypotheses — backed by real screenshots and wireframes.

Product AnalysisUser SegmentationFeature Reverse-EngineeringPrioritisation

Read the teardown → Prototype ↗ Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Wireframes Deck

Assignment 2 · PRD

Product Requirements Document

A complete PRD written to program spec — problem framing, goals, user stories, scope, and success metrics for a defined product build.

PRDProduct SpecSuccess Metrics

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Assignment 3 · Technical PRD

ChemIQ — RAG System PRD

The product requirements for ChemIQ's retrieval-augmented generation system: grounding a JEE-Chemistry assistant in real lecture notes, with retrieval design and evaluation baked in.

RAGAI ProductTechnical PRDEvaluation

Read the case study → Read PRD ↗

Assignment · AI Adoption

RoleSpec — From AI Curiosity to AI Usage

An exploration of how professionals move from experimenting with AI to depending on it — and what that shift means for building tools people actually adopt.

AI AdoptionProduct ThinkingGo-to-Market

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Assignment · Agentic Product

Vela — AI Day Planner

An agentic day-planning concept built for the Indian context: turning intent into a structured, realistic daily plan. Presented as a full product deck.

Agentic AIProduct DesignConcept

View deck ↗ Live ↗

A teacher who
ships products.