Product Manager · Seattle, WA

Meghna
Bhagwat

I build products and think in systems. With a background in backend engineering and a career path through enterprise software and GovTech, I bring technical depth to product decisions — and a bias for evidence over intuition.

Platform Products Enterprise SaaS Technical PM Gen AI Engineer Turned PM

Background

Engineer turned PM,
thinking in systems.

I started my career as a backend engineer building systems where failure was not an option — AML transaction monitoring, financial data pipelines, and compliance infrastructure for global banks. That foundation taught me to think in systems, not features.

I moved into product deliberately. I wanted to own the problem, not just the solution. The shift from Software Engineer to Product Owner to Product Manager was a choice I made each time I felt too comfortable.

Today I am focused on platform and technical product roles at companies building at scale. I bring engineering depth, a bias for evidence over intuition, and a genuine curiosity about how AI can make everyday work faster and less frustrating.

6+
Years of product experience across enterprise SaaS and GovTech
10k+
Users served across enterprise platforms owned end to end
5
Portfolio artifacts spanning AI tools, platform teardowns, and metrics thinking

Work

Portfolio

Live Tool · AI Powered

Competitive Sentiment Analyser

Pulls real user discussions from Reddit, Hacker News, and DEV.to and uses Claude to compare two competing products side by side. Applied to Microsoft's ecosystem to identify unmet user needs grounded in actual user voice, not assumptions.

Live Tool · AI Powered

Metrics Framework Builder

Generates a rigorous, product specific metrics framework for any product. North star, input metrics ranked by criticality, guardrail metrics, and the vanity metrics to avoid. Built to close a gap in my own metrics thinking.

Case Study · AI Tool

AI Decision Navigator

An AI powered tool that helps structure thinking for high stakes, ambiguous decisions without making the decision for you. Built during a job search when decision fatigue was very real.

Platform Teardown

Stripe Platform Teardown

A deep analysis of how Stripe built the gold standard developer payment platform. Covers API design philosophy, ecosystem extensibility, integration lock-in as a competitive moat, and platform metrics that matter.

Platform Teardown

Amazon Seller Central Teardown

How Amazon's seller platform balances ecosystem scale with buyer experience. Covers seller onboarding, the platform accountability paradox, analytics fragmentation, and the two metrics that tell you whether the platform is actually healthy.

Get in touch

Let's talk.

I am actively looking for platform and technical PM roles at companies building at scale. If you are building something that needs a PM who can sit in a technical design review in the morning and a stakeholder strategy session in the afternoon, I would love to connect.