Saswat Dash

Experience

Timeline

Tags show what I owned, what I contributed to, and what was independent work.

  1. 2026 – nowFull-time

    HPCL Officer Engineer, Procurement

    Procurement for one of India's largest oil refiners and marketers.

    Owned

  2. From May 2025Startup

    Nexorea Co-founder and Product Head

    AI mental-wellness startup. 40+ user interviews, MVP with 85% onboarding completion.

    OwnedUser interviewsPRDsFigmaCase study →

  3. 2025Internship

    InstaPrepsAI PM Intern, then Product Analyst Intern

    Funnel analysis and a relaunched onboarding: MAU up 67% to 1,397, activation up 18%.

    • Led a six-person team that launched a Student Admin Assessment platform in nine days.

    OwnedSQLKPI dashboardsA/B testingCase study →

  4. Apr – Jul 2025Internship

    Devlaunch Product Management Intern

    Turned 37 user interviews into PRDs for community features; bounce rate down 12%, DAU up 5%.

    ContributedUser interviewsPRDs

  5. Aug – Nov 2024Internship

    Habuild Product Management Intern

    Yoga Together and Pause My Subscription: class attendance up 19% in three months.

    ContributedCase study →

  6. May – Jul 2024Internship

    Vecmocon Technologies Data Analyst and Strategy Intern

    Random-forest model on 50,000+ IoT and battery data points cut EV leasing income uncertainty 35%.

    OwnedPythonRandom forest

  7. Past ventureStartup

    AirtCraft Founder

    B2B art consultancy connecting academy-trained fine artists with corporate gifting and office collections.

    • Started as a B.Tech project: surveyed 167 artists and 253 consumers, designed a four-stream revenue model.
    • Pivoted from a consumer marketplace to B2B, built the GTM plan around Diwali corporate gifting, and launched airtcraft.in.
    • Paused on joining HPCL. Lesson: test who pays before building for both sides.

    Owned

Recognition

  • Top PM Fellow, NextLeapRedesigned Zomato's review flow, projected to raise detailed reviews 24%.
  • Campus winner, Tata Elxsi TELIPORTNavigation product concept, projected to improve accuracy 27%.
  • 9th of 4,518, American Express Campus Challenge 2024Decision Science track.

Other work

  • Vendor performance analysis10,000+ sales and inventory records; flagged $2.71M of slow-moving stock and 65.7% reliance on top vendors. Self-directed.
  • Hotel revenue analysisFound a 22.2-point gap between weekend and weekday occupancy and tested discount scenarios. Course project, AtliQ Hotels dataset.

Education

IIT Kharagpur — Dual degree — B.Tech Mechanical Engineering + M.Tech Manufacturing Science & Engineering, 2026