Diwakar Badiger
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4+ years shipping production GenAI products across LLM voice agents, hiring platforms and EdTech at multi-crore revenue scale. Hands-on with LLM evals, RAG, agentic workflows and multilingual ASR/TTS for enterprise deployments.

Experience

Sept 2025 — June 2026

Product Manager, Voice AI & Platform

@Apna Jobs

  • Scaled an LLM voice agent to 1.5L+ calls/month across 5,000+ SMB and 20 enterprise clients.
  • Built an LLM eval framework with tracing and rubric scoring; call quality up 25%, 85%+ completion rate.
  • Shipped retrieval-grounded (RAG) screening over JD and CV context; AOV up 30%, 8% incremental revenue.
  • Led the multilingual rollout across Hindi, Kannada and Tamil; tuned ASR/TTS, latency and interruption handling.
  • Owned roadmap, backlog and PRDs, and defined the north-star and product KPIs across sales, support, eng and leadership.

May 2024 — July 2025

Head of Product & Business (Vertical Owner)

@Eventbeep (Shark Tank India portfolio)

  • Scaled MRR from ₹3L to ₹50L in eight months (17x) via PLG loops and retention features; ₹4Cr+ ARR.
  • Launched Beephire.ai, a 0-to-1 GenAI hiring SaaS, onboarding 10+ B2B clients onto LLM voice screening.
  • Built viral lead-gen products (assessments, certificates) that acquired 3L+ users in two months.
  • Led a 30-member cross-functional team; 20% net profitability, CAC down 35%, secured a $100K grant.

May 2021 — April 2024

Founder & CEO

@Careerboat

  • Built an AI-led 1:1 mentorship platform 0 to 1; scaled to 5L users and 5K+ paid users.
  • Raised ₹90L in grants and angel funding; reached ₹1.2Cr ARR within two years of launch.
  • Recruited and led a 15-member team, owning OKRs, roadmap, sprint planning and delivery.
  • Partnered with 100+ colleges and helped 150+ companies hire candidates.

Education

Mar 2023 — July 2024

SEED Entrepreneurship Program

@Stanford University

Aug 2018 — July 2022

B.E. Mechanical Engineering

@KLE Institute of Technology (VTU)

Skills & tools

AI / GenAI

LLMs · RAG · Prompt engineering · AI agents · Agentic workflows · LLM evals & observability · Guardrails · Embeddings · ASR/TTS · Multilingual AI

Product

Roadmap · Backlog prioritisation · PRDs & user stories · Product KPIs · Customer discovery · Market analysis · A/B testing · OKRs · GTM strategy

Tools

LangChain · Langfuse · Claude API · OpenAI API · Deepgram · ElevenLabs · Vapi · Twilio · Retell · Mixpanel · SQL · Figma · Jira · Notion · n8n