Alok Abhishek
I am a seasoned Product Management professional with blended expertise in software engineering and business administration. My passion lies in building innovative products, exploring new technologies, and deepening my understanding of design, business, and data analytics. I'm committed to applying design thinking and data-driven strategies to create products that resonate with customers, particularly within the realms of cloud computing and machine learning. Outside of work, I enjoy expanding my knowledge in science, technology, and business, as well as hiking, running, and attending concerts.
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Data Analytics, Design Thinking, Generative AI, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, Product Management
Disrupting Industries with Data Science: Machine Learning as the Key to Disruptive Innovation
Develop actionable innovation strategies by harnessing the power of advanced machine learning techniques such as RoBERTa, BART, LLM, & LDA
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Building Nom Navigator AI: Enhancing Search and Product Recommendation with Generative AI
In this blog I share the step by step process of building a better search engine using Generative AI and Large Language models (LLMs). I built a restaurant recommendation system using Llama-2-7b-chat-hf, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1, and bge-large-en-v1.5 and the result is an extremely relevant search result based on natural language. The app also helps in finding lesser-known culinary treasures and summarizes user reviews. Generative AI is an incredibly powerful tool that can really enhance your product. They can be used to enhance the user experience, increase the value of the offering, and reduce development time and costs. Generative AI technologies present a fantastic opportunity to boost products’ value, elevate customer satisfaction, generate…
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Develop User Empathy and Craft Better Products: Using Machine Learning to Analyze User Feedback via Clustering & Sentiment Analysis
Ever wondered how to truly understand your users' feelings and craft products they'll love? In our latest blog, we explore the intersection of Human-Centered Design and Machine Learning. Delve into the intricacies of design thinking and see how tools like sentiment analysis and clustering can enhance our understanding of user feedback. Discover how sentiment analysis and clustering, can help in unlocking qualitative user feedback into deep user empathy and insights. Whether you're in product design or just curious about harnessing technology for better insights, this piece offers a thoughtful perspective on crafting user-centric solutions.
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API Centric SaaS That Customers and Developers Will Love: Strategies for Design, Adoption, and Monetization
APIs are the secret sauce to SaaS success, turbocharging product value, customer satisfaction, and revenue growth. They're the backbone of seamless integration, tailor-made customization, scalable interface expansion, and ecosystem development. With APIs, your SaaS product can offer an enriched user experience, bolstered security, and reduced development costs. In the competitive SaaS market, APIs aren't just a tool – they're the game-changer for adding value, delighting customers, and uncovering new profit avenues.
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Optimizing Product Planning – Simplifying Cloud Cost Modeling using Azure Retail Pricing API
Optimizing Product Planning and Simplifying Cloud Cost Modeling using Azure Retail Pricing API
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Launching new product like a rock star: Product Manager’s guide to major product launch
In today’s fast evolving global world there are many different industries and product types. Therefore, there is no single cookie cutter approach to launching a product. However, in this blog, I will share a framework-driven approach to help you plan and navigate product launch. I hope this framework will help you improve the product launch success rate and set a rock-solid foundation for the success of the product.
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Thinking about what I should read next? Here are the best books I read in last twelve months. (2020 – 21 edition)
Reading everyday has a lot of benefits such as cognitive development, mental stimulation and stress and depression alleviation. So if you are thinking about reading more (or if you want to explore some new books), there here's my recommendation of 16 books which I read in last year. I hope few of these books will pique your interest.
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Competitive Analysis framework for Product Managers
Product Managers need to build a deep understanding of all 4Cs (customers, company, competitors and collaborators). Reliable information on competition is a difficult to get which leads to a lot of ineffective competitive analysis. In this blog, I share a framework to approach competitive analysis which will provide actionable insights to build better products. When done well, competitive analysis can be a source of invaluable insight and contribute to your product strategy and plan.
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Building my website on Google Cloud Platform using WordPress and Google Kubernetes Engine
Cloud computing has made technology accessible to everyone. In this blog post I share how I build my own website on GCP using GKE and wordpress in hours.
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Product Manager’s guide to building Product OKRs and identifying KPIs
Objective and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) enable companies to develop razor focus and prioritize ruthlessly. By leveraging OKRs and KPIs you can develop products that your customers love.
