Product Engineer · Ex-Founder

Aarav
Khanduja

PM Intern at Phia. I build consumer and enterprise AI products by combining user research, product design, and hands-on engineering.

Experience

Across startups, internships, and side projects, I've focused on building products people actually want — and validating that with data and usage.

Product Management Intern

Phia

Sept 2025 - Present

Working across product discovery, user feedback systems, and applied AI features in production.

Collaborating closely with engineering and design to improve iteration speed, user trust, and product clarity.

Product Management Intern

Penseum

July - Aug 2025

Drove 2× activation by scoping UX experiments, improving upload performance, and repositioning core CTAs.

Used Mixpanel and session replays to analyze onboarding funnels and inform product decisions.

Product Management
UX Research
Mixpanel
Conversion Optimization
A/B Testing

Cofounder

ProperlyAI

Jan 2024 - Mar 2025

Onboarded 5+ beta clients and led 70+ user interviews, resulting in 3 major product pivots. Built an AI-powered CRM for realtors, scoped the MVP, ran GTM via cold outreach, managed a cross-functional team of 5, placed 2nd at Techstars USC, and joined the NYU Sprint Accelerator (grant + AWS credits).

Shipped an AI CRM that turned inbox chaos into actionable client summaries.

Full-Stack Development
Product Strategy
User Research
Applied AI
Team Leadership

Product Marketing Intern

Penseum

Dec 2023 - Jan 2024

Integrated Mixpanel into the frontend and designed a UTM strategy analyzing 10K+ visits across 1M+ impressions.

Helped drive early adoption of an AI lecture notes → quizzes product across student communities.

Product Marketing
Analytics Integration
UTM Strategy
Distribution
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023

Built a gamified rewards system, migrated infrastructure to AWS, and onboarded 40+ members to Slack.

Increased event attendance through incentive-driven engagement loops.

Full-Stack Development
AWS
Gamification
Community Systems

Featured Projects

Open-source projects I've contributed to.

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Contributor
🏆 Next.js Global Hackathon 2025 Winner

Text editor with context-aware autocomplete; added local LLM support to remove mandatory cloud dependency.

Problem

Cloud-only inference excluded developers without API keys and created single-provider lock-in.

Impact

Implemented local Ollama inference via non-edge API route and environment-based fallback for provider switching
+298/−116 LOC

Tech

Next.js
Trigger.dev
Ollama
CineScreen screenshot
Contributor
22★ on GitHub

Cursor-free screen recorder with physics-based post-processing and cinema-quality exports.

Problem

Mouse-dependent editing workflows slowed power users, and exported videos lacked visual click feedback.

Impact

Shipped keyboard shortcut system with input-focus guards and modifier-key handling
Animated click circle effects with Sharp-based export rendering controls
+465/−35 LOC across 2 merged PRs

Tech

Electron
TypeScript
Sharp

Skills & Expertise

Product

Activation & onboarding
Roadmapping
User research
A/B testing
Funnels
Mixpanel

Technical

Python
FastAPI
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Supabase
GPT-4 API
Figma

Get in Touch

Happy to chat about product, early-stage building, or applied AI.