Dinesh Kumar Katal · Product & Growth Manager

Selected work.

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fried viper

0k+ users served.0k+ resumes scored.0+ teams matched.0% funnel lift.

— work experience —

where i've shipped.

roles, ownership and the receipts behind them — every card links to proof of the work.

may 2025 — presentcurrent

Product Intern

Songdew Media Private Limited · Gurugram, India

music & artist platform — epk, onboarding and trust & safety

revamped the EPK module — the lowest-engagement feature — driving 65% of new registering users to complete profiles
built AI-driven onboarding personalizing the experience across modules, boosting engagement by 30%
engineered a fraud-detection pipeline, cutting fake/bot account registrations from 60% → 5% daily
launched a targeted email campaign for the EPK module, lifting profile completion rates by 40%

product managementai integrationonboardingfraud detectionemail marketinguser engagementanalytics

songdew.com ↗

apr 2025 — apr 2026

Founding Member & Product Lead

Beyond Career · Gurugram, India · Remote

making traditional edtech smarter with ai-based solutions

architected the end-to-end platform scaling to 30,000+ users with 99.9% uptime across 50+ API endpoints
built an ML matchmaking algorithm on 30+ parameters, facilitating 400+ team formations for competitions
drove sales-pipeline growth via 60+ college workshops and 40+ webinars, optimizing LVR and conversion
developed an ATS engine parsing 2,000+ resumes against 60+ criteria, boosting user scores by 35% via NLP
led growth analytics over SQL funnels, improving ATS keyword matching by 45%
curated a hub of 50+ PM resources and 20+ books for a community of 1,000+ students

product analyticspythonsqlmachine learningnlpgrowth analyticsuser funnelsapi developmentjiranotion

live platform ↗resume-ai ↗

aug 2024 — apr 2025

Teaching Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur · Kharagpur, India

supported academic instruction and student mentorship

assisted professors in course delivery and academic assessment
mentored undergraduates in technical subjects and project guidance
conducted doubt-clearing sessions and tutorial classes; evaluated assignments with constructive feedback

mentorshiptechnical teachingcommunicationstudent support

nov 2022 — aug 2023

Student Mentor

Student Welfare Group, IIT Kharagpur · Kharagpur, India

guided incoming students through academic and social integration

mentored 10+ freshers as their primary point of contact for academic success
developed personalized mentorship strategies; delivered orientation and ongoing campus support

mentorshipleadership developmentstudent counselingcommunication

01product strategyroadmaps · 0→1 validation · KPIs

02data analyticsSQL · cohort analysis · user funnels

03experimentationA/B testing · feature flags · usability tests

04growth marketingacquisition · conversion optimization · CRM

05machine learningpredictive modeling · NLP · Python

06product toolsMixpanel · Amplitude · HubSpot · Figma

toolbelt

jiranotionfigmagithubspotfirebasepower bitableaugoogle analyticsmixpanelamplitudeexcelmatplotlibseabornapi integrationgoogle workspace

— background —

academic seals.

2020 — 2025degree

Integrated Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Mining Engineering · CGPA 8.03. Coursework in ML, Business Analytics, Data Visualization, DBMS, and Entrepreneurship.

MAR — MAY 2025harvard

Aspire Advanced Leadership Program

Harvard Business School · Aspire Institute

Selected for HBS's global initiative. Intensive coursework in leadership development and social innovation.

APR — JUN 2025stanford

Code in Place — Python

Stanford University

Stanford's public-service programming course: Python and CS fundamentals under Stanford CS professors.

APR — JUN 2025mckinsey

Forward Learning Program

McKinsey.org

10-week Forward journey in future-of-work skills: critical thinking, structured problem-solving, adaptive leadership.

2023 — 2025certified

Certifications & Training

ISRO AI/ML (CNN · RNN · YOLO) · CS50, Harvard (edX) · Machine Learning Specialization (Coursera) · LangChain for LLM Apps · Fundamentals of Equity Valuation (365 Financial Analyst) · Generative AI for Everyone.

— achievements —

medals & podiums.

MAR — APR 2024gold · 1st

Product Design General Championship

Inter-hall Championship · IIT Kharagpur

1st of 15+ teams. Ideated TIMETINT, a smart color-changing pharma label cutting expired-medicine consumption by 60% for patient safety.

OCT — NOV 2022silver · 2nd

Open IIT Data Analytics Competition

OpenIIT · IIT Kharagpur

2nd of 67 teams. NLP classifiers (BERT, ANN, RNN) detecting gender bias across 2,000+ sentence pairs with 89% accuracy.

OCTOBER 2022finalist

Product Design Open IIT

OpenIIT · IIT Kharagpur

Smart Knee Brace for a 30-crore-user market — production cost down 49.7%, robustness up 36%.

JAN — FEB 2024bronze · captain

Athletics Captaincy & GC Short Film

Nehru Hall · IIT Kharagpur

Led 21 athletes to Nehru Hall's historic inter-hall bronze; creative-directed the silver-winning GC short film.

product manager · data & insights, end to end

01

strategy

Strategy

Define product vision and growth opportunities through rigorous market research and customer discovery, aligning product goals with business outcomes.

product roadmapmarket researchuser personas

02

analytics

Analytics

Deep dive into user funnels and complex datasets using SQL, Python, and Power BI. Run A/B experiments to identify growth loops and conversion bottlenecks.

SQLPower BIA/B testing

03

growth

Growth

Partner with engineering and marketing teams to ship optimized products, validate startup ideas, and scale platforms to thousands of active users.

product opsgrowth loopsagile

the person behind the work

about me.

iit kharagpur → gurugram

product manager and data analyst with an engineer's grounding. at beyond career i grew a platform from early days to 30,000+ users; now at songdew i build ai-driven onboarding and fraud-detection, mentor aspiring PMs on topmate, and ship open-source projects.

what people say

in their words.

Today's session brought instant clarity to concepts I'd been struggling with for days. The intuitive, practical style made even complex ideas feel simple. The roadmap shared gave me a step-by-step approach for my specific goals.

Mansi Agarwal

IIM Indore (IPM)

One of the best advices and career guidance — and now I know I will definitely get the job.

Apoorva Jain

mentee · Unstop · 5.0 ★

Amazing 😍. It felt like the mentor truly understood the modern job market and offered tailored, useful insights. Extremely helpful in shaping my path.

Sagar

DTU, Delhi

Very helpful.

Tia Sharma

mentee · Unstop · 5.0 ★

Beyond Career is an exceptional mentoring platform that provided precise and effective solutions, guiding me in the right direction. Their expertise and support have been invaluable.

Isha Mehla

Amity University Rajasthan

Beyond Career is an exceptional mentoring platform that provided precise and effective solutions, guiding me in the right direction. Their expertise and support have been invaluable.

Isha Mehla

Amity University Rajasthan

Very helpful.

Tia Sharma

mentee · Unstop · 5.0 ★

Today's session brought instant clarity to concepts I'd been struggling with for days. The intuitive, practical style made even complex ideas feel simple. The roadmap shared gave me a step-by-step approach for my specific goals.

Mansi Agarwal

IIM Indore (IPM)

Your explanation is very nice, I will try for that. Thanks for guiding.

Sneha Yadav

mentee · Unstop · 5.0 ★

Amazing 😍. It felt like the mentor truly understood the modern job market and offered tailored, useful insights. Extremely helpful in shaping my path.

Sagar

DTU, Delhi

Highly recommended.

Subham Sahoo

mentee · Unstop · 5.0 ★

+ more on unstop ↗ · topmate ↗ — 5.0 average across platforms

mentoring on topmate

top 0.1% mentor.

1:1 career sessions on resume reviews, product careers and data roles — rated 4.9 / 5 across 7 reviews.

4.9/5avg rating

25+sessions booked

0.1%of all mentors

book a session on topmate ↗

top 0.1%best of best

top 1%25 bookings

people's choice5 bookings

hustlertop earners

curatorsold a product

community carefree 1:1 host

top 5%10 bookings

debut '25/'26class of 2025-26

product manager fordata & AI-driven products.

Selected work.

A hacker hostel of self-coordinating AI agents.

Cinematic lyric videos, rendered from raw audio.

Music intelligence studio, zero auth, zero API keys.

Anime discovery terminal on AniList GraphQL.

A job board the community actually uses, daily.

0k+ users served.0k+ resumes scored.0+ teams matched.0% funnel lift.

where i've shipped.

Product Intern

Founding Member & Product Lead

Teaching Assistant

Student Mentor

academic seals.

Integrated Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Aspire Advanced Leadership Program

Harvard Business School · Aspire Institute

Code in Place — Python

Stanford University

Forward Learning Program

McKinsey.org

Certifications & Training

medals & podiums.

Product Design General Championship

Inter-hall Championship · IIT Kharagpur

Open IIT Data Analytics Competition

OpenIIT · IIT Kharagpur

Product Design Open IIT

OpenIIT · IIT Kharagpur

Athletics Captaincy & GC Short Film

Nehru Hall · IIT Kharagpur

Strategy

Analytics

Growth

about me.

in their words.

top 0.1% mentor.

let's build something that matters.